That led to him designing the apes seen in the Dawn of Mansequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a laborious two-year process that at one stage saw comedian Ronnie Corbett participate in make-up tests.
In one early sequence, she dresses like a man to entertain Jules and Jim, and to some extent she fulfills both a feminine and a masculine destiny, taking the initiative in a period when women's lives were tightly constrained.