This thread was great. Best I've read. It brought back many memories from childhood, peeking the TV from under the covers. Nowadays 20 somethings can't abide a black and white movie, but (except for cartoon features) I prefer my suspense and horror in B&W.
There's little I can add to this discussion, but there's something that struck a chord in me: One poster asked about
the image a woman sees in the mirror on a TV feature! I saw it, but only once and I can't pull up the memory. However, I think I can narrow down the possibilities. In syndication I saw each and and every Hitchcock and Twilight Zone episodes many times over, so we can rule them out.
It's safe to say that a plot scheme this limited wouldn't fit in a 60 minute format, so that gets rid of the hour-long Hitchcock and the Karloff hosted "Thriller" and "The Outer Limits". I'm thinking it was a 15 or 20 minute feature like Serling's NIGHT GALLERY, that showed 3 or 4 vignettes per show. That's all I have on that (for now)
I'm always pleased to find out something new that I didn't know about in the Universal Horror genre, and there's lots of good stuff in these five pages. Last year I came across something interesting about a scene in the '31 DRACULA: There is something about a lamp on a table in Mina's sickroom that's puzzling to this day. It's unclear if it's a lighting gaff or just a towel thrown over the lamp to diffuse the light for the scene, or a representation of how folks dimmed a room in those days, or something else!
If memory serves the "towel" jumps from one lamp to another in different scenes in what could be the worst production/lighting/editing blunder in Universal history! At any rate I'm going to hunt for that scene that I probably found on You Tube and get back to you with the link...wish me luck.
EDIT: I found it. I tell you it's a must watch. But I had it wrong as it was a "hunk of cardboard", not a towel
The narrator is funny and cracked me up but is also a serious horror geek that knows his stuff.
