Ronnie Biggs escaped Wandsworth Prison in broad daylight using rope ladders and a waiting furniture van. The extraordinary 1965 breakout transformed a convicted train robber into an international fugitive and exposed embarrassing weaknesses in Britain's prison security.

In 1974, The Beast Must Die interrupted its own climax to give cinema audiences thirty seconds to identify a werewolf. The notorious Werewolf Break became the film's defining feature, despite its director wanting nothing to do with it.

In 1963, Stan Brakhage made Mothlight without a camera, using dead moth wings, petals and transparent film tape instead of actors or sets. The result was four silent minutes that turned discarded fragments of nature into something unnervingly alive.