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Check out the trailer for The Rubber-Keyed Wonder, an upcoming film from Anthony & Nicola Caulfield that tells the story of Clive Sinclair’s now legendary ZX Spectrum home computer that was first released in 1982. The world premiere of The Rubber-Keyed Wonder arrives on London’s BFI IMAX on October 3, 2024.  The Rubber-Keyed Wonder charts the development and creation of the ZX Spectrum from concept through to its first release, and the financial and reputational success it brought Clive Sinclair. It also examines the impact of subsequent versions of the computer and features a huge array of games that were developed on the Spectrum including: Jet Set Willy, Knightlore, Chuckie Egg, Ant Attack, Saboteur and many more.  The film is highly nostalgic and features rare archive material combined with new interviews with the Spectrum’s original designers, Sir Clive’s son and nephew, and some of the Spectrum's greatest game developers, all sharing their memories of the spectacular rise of the ZX Spectrum and its extraordinary inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair.

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00:30people's real needs, to develop products which have real benefit to people in whatever way,

00:36and to do that at a price that they can afford, to do for 10p what anyone can do for a pound.

00:42Sir Clive Sinclair, you knew who he was, some great British inventor, but I don't think

00:47we sort of realised at the time the significance of what he was innovating in and what it would

00:52lead to.

00:53My father was always thinking about the next invention, new ideas, that was where his heart

00:59was, so he wanted to come up with something completely new that everybody would adopt,

01:03and that's really what his goal was, to have a product that everybody wanted and everybody

01:07needed.

01:08Clive was an innovator, you need these people, they're the engines of industry, people that

01:14are prepared to take a risk, stick their neck out, and Clive Sinclair was a risk taker in

01:19the best way.

01:20I think of him as a boffin who understood what was important to people, and how he could

01:27bring the future into their lives at a decent price.

01:32One of the strengths of Clive was that he was newsworthy, he was a personality, he was

01:37a bit of a maverick, people wanted to know what was he going to say, what was he going

01:40to do next.

01:51The spectrum was there at the time when it was affordable for parents to say, yeah, we

01:55can stretch it out.

01:56The spectrum was ideal, you'd go to a shop, pick it up, you'd unbox it, plug it in.

02:04I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

02:08The rainbow strike on the bottom right, it's a thing of absolute beauty, and the Sinclair

02:12logo itself, the font, get out of town.

02:15It was just so successful.

02:22The amount of games that we used to get to was just incredible.

02:26The games played really made the spectrum the success that it was.

02:35To me, it just made it possible to get into computing.

02:39That's the spectral experience.

02:40It's one of the few times that I dug my heels in and said, Clive, we're hiring her, or I'm

02:46leaving.

02:47When Clive was targeting those early adopterists, innovators, he was happiest.

02:53This was cheap, it was in different houses, it was colour, beautiful.

02:56It gave the tools of production to the hands of millions.

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