This was the most disturbing programme I ever saw as a child growing up in the 80s. I still have nightmares about it to this day... the tune, the box, the programme, the creepy presenter... This upload has done nothing to allay my nightmares, only intensify them with an extended theme and the creepy man (or is it a woman?) cranking up the glass coffin. I can imagine myself in this glass coffin when I die and on my way down to hell this music will be playing for all eternity
The most ghostly, haunting, exotic, erotic (and a shade sinister) piece of music ever made. It ranks alongside the theme from the film Get Carter (1971) for the same reasons. There is almost a hypnotic or mesmeric resonance to it that you can't forget. Which is fine coz I never tire of hearing it. Ever since as a boy I watched the first broadcast on TV. Beautiful and soothing, even if it does sound like the type of tune Jack the Ripper might listen to before going out into the fog covered streets of Whitechapel. I will have this played at my funeral.
its played on a crystal baschet. glass rods stroked with wet fingers and resonating through metal leaves. 2 people playing in tandem ...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-awaFd6gArLg.html
Jimmy savile hand a hand in this, if not all his creepy bbc mates did. We're a generation raised by tbe sickest phucks on earth. Long live fraglerock!!@@@
Some of us have lived with this knowledge since childhood in the 1970s..... The "liquid cosh" sometimes helps, but mostly it's simply a fearful acid that just endlessly burns at the soul.... Genius as ever Quent...
Oh my goodness this is EPIC! The level of authenticity here is off the scale! We're talking Look Around You, or greater. So much understated humor and subtle details. The head nod gets me. Wow. No idea how I got here but I've subbed to this channel and excited (and terrified) about what else I'm going to find here!
This used to make the whole Television Room at Greystones Middle School vibrate when it came on. Come to think of it, the bloke who presented it looked a bit like Quentin's ventriloquist dummy/choirboy trying to sing Greensleeves.
Loads of Gen x'ers recounting stories of how scarring this music was to their mental psyche. When the Grim Reaper comes for me, it will be to this tune.
@@ConkerKing Haunted television? Can't say I'm surprised, there's was a kind off strange feeling throughout the 70's. I was born in '66 so I was growing up in that decade. It's an odd, barely describable atmosphere, like a deep undertow below an otherwise calm looking body of water. Does that make sense?
Good video, what’s with the puppets ifindeed they were, how was the box made to move, & what’s with the birdsong & flickering candles & bdautiful crystal Bachet organ?
The box is an antique glass jewellery box - pretty easy to find. The music is Manège by Les Structures Sonores, and no, it's not on iTunes or Spotify. Virtually none of LSS's music is.
FHR led me here and I while I'm amused I have no clue lol. Gonna have to find episodes of the show, though the theme sounds hauntingly familiar, or it's just familiar haunting.
A man in his underpants wearing a women’s wig playing the sound track of a children’s programme and you don’t find anything weird or sinister about it. Says a lot about you 🤡😫😱
Exceptional melody, why”’s s it not available as a download? I find the tue soothing, ditto with that crystal bachet, who’s playing it & what’s it called? Please kindly assist? Cheers! 🤔
@@quentinsmirhes2977 Ooh you are still answering questions. Could you satisfy my curiosity about the box in your vid? Is it the actual one from Picture Box, or a similar one, or is it CG cleverness?
It was decent of the the gentleman to take a few moments off from presenting Intermediate Trigonometry with The Open University to fill the role of organ grinder
One Halloween I accidently showed this to my nieces when telling them about this spooky schools programme from when I was young. That'll teach me not to preview watch. Though to be fair, my nieces did think it was spooky...and hilarious.
This is so beautiful, apart from the cwap in the miggle :-y and then the distortion at the end :-y otherwise, it's so like a very bassy musical box I find 🤔.. (/^v^)/!
For those who are interested in how this sound was produced and who played the instrument.. your welcome ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-awaFd6gArLg.html
