Anyone saw/remember this film (movie)?

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Anyone saw/remember this film (movie)?; Help me find it, if possible
Topic Started: Aug 3 2009, 03:58 PM (56 Views)
Kerr Avon	Aug 3 2009, 03:58 PM Post #1
Veteran Member Posts: 265 Group: Member Member #52 Joined: December 13, 2006	I'm trying to find information (or preferably a full download) on an animated film I once saw years ago (1970s or possibly very early 1980's, when I was a kid), on English television. It was very eerie, and was set in the Victorian/Edwardian/similar era, using anumated models (stop film photography, like Morph or Wallace and Gromit, but not as obviously plastercine, the props and stuff may have been wood/plastic etc, but painted to look real). Anyway, the gist of it is, this rich bloke lives in a mansion with his daughter (can't remember if the wife/mother is there), and his daughter is in love with some local bloke who's poor but decent (from what I remember). The father forbids her from marrying this bloke, and locks her up so she can't see him, and she comits suicide. The young man is devastated, the girl is (supposedly) buried (I think, but anyway, time passes, and the young man and the world carry on their lives), but the young man never gets over this girl, and one day he's walking past the mansion grounds' wall, and he sees the girl in a windows, looking out. So he climbs over the wall, breaks into the house, and enters the girls room (I don't think this is her bedroom, I think it might be an attic or something) and she is there standing by the window. I can't remember all of the details, but it's dark (it's night, and there is no light on in the room, only the star light through the window), she's distressed to see him there, and begs him to leave, but he goes over to her and grabs her to hold her, and her hair falls off. It's a wig, because her head isn't a human head, and there is a runner on the floor, for her to move on, as she no-longer has legs. It turns out that when she commited suicide, her father, an inventor, removed her brain, and placed it in this "body", a semi-mobile thing, like a tailors dummy, which could move on a runner, and he (or his wife) had tried to make the "body" (and it's face) as much like the daughter's natural looks as possible. Now, it ended there, and I never saw part two (part one ended at the yound man's horror of this discovery), though I've never forgotten this, as I was a kid and it really frightened me. The thing is, though, I don't know what program it was. I have a fixed memory, but I have to be wrong about it. When I was at primary school, in the 1970's, every so often out class would sit in front of the TV, and watch some educational programs (as I presume most schools did), and I distinctly remember that this was on a program like Words and Pictures, where they'd teach basic words, or sentence structure, or basic musical concepts or so on, and often they'd have a film (real or animated) to demonstrate some points, or just to entertain. Anyway, I can remember watching the animated film I've described, in a classroom with my class-mates. But that can't be right, no teacher would put something that frightening on for kids to watch, so obviously I must have two seperate memories (the actual film which I did see (it's not my imagination, or anything), and a more generic memory of watching kids' programs at primary school) that have become mixed together inseparably, as childhood memories sometimes do. Anyway, does anyone remember this film? It was very frightening (deliberately so, from the visual images I can remember) and would have been broadcast (at whatever time of day, but I really doubt it was during school hours, despite the "evidence" of my memory) in 1981 or sooner (maybe 1975 onwards). The film did exist, and it was in two parts, but beyond that I can't remember anything else that could help me identify it.



alxbly	Aug 5 2009, 05:29 PM Post #2
Alxblymus Primus Posts: 8,713 Group: Admin Member #168 Joined: October 18, 2008	Sounds interesting but I'm afraid I don't remember ever seeing it. Let us know if you find out what it is.
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