[Nick Zwar]

I’m one of the many “older gits” whose childhood and adolescence was shaped by “taping direct from the telly onto cassette”.

I did so too. Fortunately, I had a least a way to hookup my radio cassette recorder to the TV, so that I would record the TV sound only, and not via microphone picking up should anyone in the family talk. (Ironically, had I now some voices of my family from back then, these tapes would be invaluable to me.)

Some of the movies I had taped off the TV were WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE BIG COUNTRY, TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING, CAPRICORN ONE, BANDOLERO!, LAWMAN, HIGH NOON, GODZILLA, SCORPIO, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL… all of which belong to my “initial deck” of “introductory film scores”. (The first film scores I ever got to listen to “without movie” were STAR WARS and STAR TREK – THE MOTION PICTURE.)