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[[Work Is A Four Letter Word]] is [[Peter Hall]]'s first feature film, made in 1967 by Calvacade Films<ref name=BrennanThesis>[[Breege Brennan's thesis]].</ref>, released in the UK on 7th June 1968<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062503/releaseinfo ''Work Is A 4-Letter Word'' on imdb.com]</ref> and distributed by Universal Pictures.<ref name=BrennanThesis/>

<BLOCKQUOTE>
<I>I also did the music for Peter Hall's first feature film, Work is a Four Letter Word. I did the electronic part of the music... the bloopy bits when they'd taken the magic mushrooms.</I>
<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--Delia, in the [[Surface interview]]
</BLOCKQUOTE>

She subsequently reworked these themes to make the "Delia's..." tracks on the [[ESL104]] album.

=Credits=
From the opening titles:
* Stars: [[David Warner]], [[Cilla Black]]
* Written by: Jeremy Brooks, adapted from the play "EH?" by Henry Livings
* Director of Photography: Gilbert Taylor
* Editor: Jack Harris
* Art Director: Philip Harrison
* Production Manager: Donald Toms
* Assistent Director: Claude Watson
* Sound recordists: Robert MacPhee, Gordon K. McDallum
* Music Composed and Conducted by: [[Guy Woolfenden]]
* Associate Producer: Ham Haysom
* Production Controller: Tom White
* Producer: Thomas Clyde
* Director: [[Peter Hall]]
From the closing titles:
* Electronic music by Delia Derbyshire

=Excerpts=
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==1. First theme: "I love you, Betty" (0:15)==
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==2. Second theme; semitone chord theme: "Mrs Murray? You're beautiful" (0:38)==
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==3. Delia's theme; first theme reprise: "Val, oh Val, you have such lovely ears" (0:15)==
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==4. Climbing theme; second theme: "They had been climbing, it seemed, for hours" (0:59)==
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==5. Spangles; Delia's theme (0:08)==
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==6. Second theme reprise (0:39)==
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==7. Second theme slow: "I'm just gonna see to me mushrooms, Betty" (0:15)==
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==8. Acciaccatura theme (0:13)==
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==9. Semitone cheeps and mushroom-eating finale (3:20)==
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=Papers=
==Preparatory notes==
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Image:DD084547.jpg|[[DD084547]]
Image:DD084623.jpg|[[DD084623]]
Image:DD084639.jpg|[[DD084639]]
Image:DD084708.jpg|[[DD084708]]
Image:DD084742.jpg|[[DD084742]]
Image:DD084752.jpg|[[DD084752]]
Image:DD084808.jpg|[[DD084808]]
Image:DD084831.jpg|[[DD084831]]
Image:DD084855.jpg|[[DD084855]]
Image:DD084917.jpg|[[DD084917]]
Image:DD084935.jpg|[[DD084935]]
Image:DD084952.jpg|[[DD084952]]
Image:DD085007.jpg|[[DD085007]]
Image:DD085023.jpg|[[DD085023]]
Image:DD085037.jpg|[[DD085037]]
Image:DD085054.jpg|[[DD085054]]
Image:DD085106.jpg|[[DD085106]]
</gallery>

==Cue sheets==
* [[DD085123]]-[[DD085526]] Cue sheets for all sound effects used in the film. See [http://delia-derbyshire.net/papers/index.html#dd085123 here].

==Notes and sound diagrams==
* [[DD085538]]-[[DD085802]] 8 pages of Delia notes and sound diagrams. See [http://delia-derbyshire.net/papers/index.html#dd085538 here].

==Manuscript scores==
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Image:DD092445.jpg|[[DD092445]]: Side 1 of 3: OK, B/W Waltz
Image:DD092511.jpg|[[DD092511]]: Side 2 of 3: Tune 1
Image:DD092522.jpg|[[DD092522]]: Side 3 of 3
Image:DD092350.jpg|[[DD092350]]: Tune 3, Tune 2A, Tune 2Z
Image:DD092413.jpg|[[DD092413]]: Tune 3
Image:DD092425.jpg|[[DD092425]]: Tune 4
</gallery>

==Correspondence==
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Image:DD080404.jpg|[[DD080404]]: Letter dated 1st Jan 1968 saying that Kaleidophon lost money on this job
</gallery>

=Tapes=
* [[DD129]]: Tape loops
* [[DD199]]: Rough mix of cue 10M1, sent for approval
* [[DD239]]: "Work is a 4 letter word: Master tape 3"
* [[DD240]]: "Work is a 4 letter word: Master tape 2"
* [[DD241]]: "Work is a 4 letter word: Master tape 1"

=Copyright=
The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:
<PRE>
Title: Work Is A Four Letter Word
Writer(s): Derbyshire Delia Ann
Creation date: 19 November 1996
</PRE>

=Availability=
* You can buy it on DVD or VHS from [http://www.thevideobeat.com/beatnik-hippie-drug-movies/work-four-letter-word-1968.html The Video beat]

=References=
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