I took this snap of a toy Sylvanian family doll house through our front window last night. I liked the silhouette.
It recalls similar creepy dolls houses.
One I half remember is a TV series where the camera followed miniature people inside a doll's house. It was at the start of each episode with the theme music. I had thought it was Thriller from the 70's but its not, I checked. Any ideas?
Another creepy house with lit windows was the Aurora Addam's Family House model kit. My brother had the original one in the late Sixties, which I remember at home.
I had a modern re-issue - in the 90's I think. Alas I sold it but I did have fun making it and trying out torches inside it! The model contained small glow ghosts on moving levers, which came to the door and the windows. Great fun! Did you have one readers?
CultTVMan has an amazing illuminated Adam's Family House model. Have a peek!
https://culttvman.com/main/randy-neuberts-lighted-addams-family-house/
All these lighted windows remind me of that neat device on the covers of Gothic Romance paperbacks. There's always one light left on upstairs as the damsel runs away from the old dark house!
I do love a lighted window in winter, maybe lit by a candle.
Something to come home to.
Another creepy house with lit windows was the Aurora Addam's Family House model kit. My brother had the original one in the late Sixties, which I remember at home.
I had a modern re-issue - in the 90's I think. Alas I sold it but I did have fun making it and trying out torches inside it! The model contained small glow ghosts on moving levers, which came to the door and the windows. Great fun! Did you have one readers?
CultTVMan has an amazing illuminated Adam's Family House model. Have a peek!
https://culttvman.com/main/randy-neuberts-lighted-addams-family-house/
All these lighted windows remind me of that neat device on the covers of Gothic Romance paperbacks. There's always one light left on upstairs as the damsel runs away from the old dark house!
I do love a lighted window in winter, maybe lit by a candle.
Something to come home to.
The clip which you mention, with miniature people inside the dolls house, rings a bell. I thought it may have been the intro for 70s TV series Shadows of Fear. Youtube proved me wrong, although UKGhostsMMXV, has other interesting stuff on the playlist, Woodsy :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for looking Tone. Yes, its within reach but just far enough away to elude us. I also wondered if it was a film? Or maybe the intro to the old Appointment with Fear series of films but I think that was Frankenstein's head. I'm convinced its a TV series still.
DeleteWas it Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House, a 1984 stop motion animated television series produced by Smallfilms? Ten episodes over two series were made. My brother was quite into this when he was a kid, but it's not something I ever saw as I was out of the country at the time...
ReplyDeleteNo, sorry Bill. Good idea though. 1884 is too late. I remember something from the early Seventies. Oddly enough I lived in Wales in 1984!
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