The Moon and the Sledgehammer is a British 1971 cult[1] documentary film directed by Philip Trevelyan and produced by Jimmy Vaughan which documents the eccentric lives of the Page family, consisting of the elderly Mr Page and his adult children Jim, Pete, Nancy and Kath, who live in a wood in Swanbrook, near Chiddingly, Sussex without mains gas, mains electricity or running water.
The sons find employment by fixing mechanical things as odd jobs and maintain two traction engines.
The film, which is 65 minutes long, consists of interviews with the Page family, interspersed with footage of them going about their lives in the forest.
[2][3][4] The British press subsequently picked it up resulting in short positive reviews by John Russell Taylor,[5] David Robinson,[6] George Melly,[7] Dilys Powell.
[10][11][12][13][14] Recording under the name Wyrdstone, Clive Murrell uses a sample of audio from the documentary as the intro to his track Pucelancyrcan, an Anglo-Saxon name for Purchase Wood in the Parish of Brightlington East Sussex.