The Irvine Development Corporation (IDC), a quasi-fascist development quango, was given complete control of Irvine from 1966 to 1996 in order to transform it from a sleepy old town into a "New Town," a thriving, bustling hive of modernity. Like all totalitarian regimes the IDC regularly pumped out self-glorifying propaganda, like this film from 1971, from its command bunker at Perceton House.
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