Horror music discussion show

[TooSoonTom]

Shown one weekday afternoon(i think i was ill and not at school), early 70s, it started with creepy montage of faces and had several people sat around a piano discussing how music is used in horror films(art show of some kind?), but the bit that i most remember and scared the pants offa me was a clip from Hammers Dracula where Peter Cushing rips the curtains down and shrivels up Christopher Lee.

[soup dragon]

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Interesting. I do have vivid memories of seeing a daytime programme about horror movies (I was also off school ill at the time), must have been mid 70s.
I always assumed it was a documentary, don't recall it being about music. I remember that classic clip from Dracula, and I also remember clips from Nosferatu (the count rising from his coffin) and the Hammer movie of Quatermass and the pit. Could we be remembering the same programme?

[TooSoonTom]

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Yes thats it! The Nosferatu clip gave me a false memory for years! I was convinced that the hairy faced captain of the ship who was tying himself to the wheel was the Wolfman and Frankensteins monster was chasing men overboard! So what was this show. i can remember a bloke at a piano(was it a film score show)? the odd thing is that they would show horror clips in the afternoon when Friday night was the traditional slot.

[soup dragon]

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Was the bloke at the piano the phantom of the opera?

That is bizarre! I kind of had it in my head that this was on around lunchtime, and I literally watched it from behind the sofa!

The clip from Quatermass was the scene when they discover the Martians in their ship, just before they start to disintergrate. Would love to know what this programme was. Was it part of a series?

[TooSoonTom]

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No the bloke at the piano was with other 'guests'? in the studio and I'm 'sure' were discussing how music makes films more scarier! I also recall it was after lunchtime too!

[NostalgiaGuy]

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Could it have been 'Clapperboard' presented by Chris Kelly of Wish You Were Here fame? It started in 1972 and ran for a decade, so it fits the time frame.

[TooSoonTom]

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Dont think so Clapperboard was early evening kids TV, this was definately on a weekday afternoon!

[kazboot]

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This rings a huge bell with me, but I can't think what it was called.
I did have it in my mind that Joseph Cooper ( from 'Face The Music' ) was the pianist, but I can't find anything about this on the web.

[TooSoonTom]

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Found on wikipedia but did they actually watch film clips, it doesn't seem to say but this could be it!

[NostalgiaGuy]

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Dont think so Clapperboard was early evening kids TV, this was definately on a weekday afternoon!

Guess it depends on which ITV region you lived in. I lived in the Yorkshire TV region, and Clapperboard was mostly on at lunchtimes for a few years, then moved to tea-time showings for its final two or three years.