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The Stone Tape
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- 44 feature instances
- 17 referencing feature instances
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A research team for British company Ryan Electronics move into a renovated castle where they intend to develop new technologies that can compete with Japan. When computer analyst Jill Greeley sees the ghost of Louisa Hanks, an undermaid killed falling from a staircase in 1890, team leader Peter Brock decides to concentrate their efforts on researching the phenomenon, convinced that it's the key to a revolutionary form of memory storage — the "stone tape".The Stone Tape was broadcast on Christmas 1972, and is regarded as one of Nigel Kneale's best and most frightening television plays, listed on The 100 Greatest Scary Moments. It was originally intended to run as an extra-long instalment of an anthology series, Dead Of Nightnote That series also features episodes written by Robert Holmes and Dorothy Allison, but was eventually broadcast as a standalone feature. Both Stephen King and John Carpenter have cited it as an influence. It was released on DVD (itself a revolutionary form of memory storage) in 2001. | |
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Dropped link to ManInARubberSuit: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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The Mistress | |
| The Stone Tape / int_15395adc | comment |
The Mistress: Jill to Brock, who has his own family; he callously dumps her for Crawshaw's Sexy Secretary when she becomes a liability. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_1ba17583 | type |
The Ghost | |
| The Stone Tape / int_1ba17583 | comment |
The Ghost: No, not an actual ghost — the unseen boss of Ryan Electronics. | |
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Science-Related Memetic Disorder | |
| The Stone Tape / int_23510712 | comment |
Science-Related Memetic Disorder: Jill is a genius with computer analysis but is regarded as emotionally fragile by her colleagues. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_25e18c14 | type |
Haunted Castle | |
| The Stone Tape / int_25e18c14 | comment |
Haunted Castle: Taskerlands | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_289f1260 | type |
Impending Doom P.O.V. | |
| The Stone Tape / int_289f1260 | comment |
Impending Doom P.O.V.: The final shot is a zoom-in on Brock's screaming face as he sees... | |
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I Meant to Do That | |
| The Stone Tape / int_293f8cd8 | comment |
I Meant to Do That: Brock says this after he erases the stone tape. Everyone scoffs at him. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_31e92640 | type |
Japan Takes Over the World | |
| The Stone Tape / int_31e92640 | comment |
Japan Takes Over the World: In a pep talk to his team, Brock predicts that that in ten years the only electronic industries will be Japanese unless Ryan Electronics develops radical new technologies. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_33029735 | type |
Dies Wide Open | |
| The Stone Tape / int_33029735 | comment |
Dies Wide Open: Jill is found like this. | |
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Hysterical Woman | |
| The Stone Tape / int_33e48eb9 | comment |
Hysterical Woman: Jill's warnings that 'erasing' the stone tape has only uncovered something else are dismissed by all concerned, even Roy. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_48309ad4 | type |
Screaming Woman | |
| The Stone Tape / int_48309ad4 | comment |
Screaming Woman: Played for horror. Jill's dying scream ends up being imprinted on the stone tape. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_485eb589 | type |
Sealed Evil in a Can | |
| The Stone Tape / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: Wiping the stone tape releases whatever it was recorded on top of. | |
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Electromagnetic Ghosts | |
| The Stone Tape / int_4f30412f | comment |
Electromagnetic Ghosts: Averted — the ghost scream won't record on audio or video. Eventually, the scientists realise what they hear and feel is the brain's reaction to whatever is imprinted into the walls; this is why some people are more sensitive to paranormal phenomena than others. | |
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Not Using the "Z" Word | |
| The Stone Tape / int_525df529 | comment |
Not Using the "Z" Word: Brock tells the others not to use words like "ghost" or "spook" because the impulse is not to take them seriously. | |
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Just Think of the Potential! | |
| The Stone Tape / int_5517f7a5 | comment |
Just Think of the Potential!: All the scientists (even Jill) become quite excited at the commercial possibilities of the stone tape — such as long term memory storage and television programs that can be beamed directly into your head. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
| The Stone Tape / int_5c5ac0e2 | comment |
Really 7,000 Years Old: According to Jill's computer analysis, the Others are very old. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| The Stone Tape / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: The noises Brock is generating to trigger the stone tape drive even his colleagues to the point of madness. Also the voices of the Eldritch Abomination as heard by Jill. | |
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Perpetual-Motion Monster | |
| The Stone Tape / int_61eac2cb | comment |
Perpetual-Motion Monster: Lampshaded — Jill notes that the 'tape' should have decayed after thousands of years. The fact that it hasn't shows that the Others still exist. | |
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I See Dead People | |
| The Stone Tape / int_6459cc02 | comment |
I See Dead People: The team vary in their sensitivity to paranormal phenomena — Jill can see the ghost, others like Stewart Jessop can barely hear it. Brock can hear but not see the ghost though after Jill dies while screaming his name, it's implied he can see her just fine. | |
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Our Ghosts Are Different | |
| The Stone Tape / int_66479d0 | comment |
Our Ghosts Are Different: What we know as ghosts are in fact living memories from past traumatic events, 'taped' in the area where they happened, and their appearances are simply this tape being replayed. | |
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Bizarrchitecture | |
| The Stone Tape / int_67fedd35 | comment |
Bizarrchitecture: The haunted room has a staircase leading up the wall to nowhere, apparently built as a folly. Louisa Hanks was killed falling off the stairs and Jill notes it doesn't seem high enough to kill someone that way. Jill herself is pursued up the staircase by the Others to an Eldritch Location from which she falls an infinite distance, being found in the room later dead of shock. | |
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Labcoat of Science and Medicine | |
| The Stone Tape / int_68c3842b | comment |
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Crawshaw wears a labcoat all the time, and Brock accuses him of doing it as a deliberate ploy (along with having hands permanently dyed with laundry powder) to emphasize that he's a hands-on researcher like their boss used to be. Sure enough when Crawshaw is put in charge of Taskerlands, he changes to a suit. | |
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UnrequitedLove | |
| The Stone Tape / int_6ceb0471 | comment |
Unrequited Love: Roy Collinson is clearly attracted to Jill, but never makes a move on her. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| The Stone Tape / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Under pressure from his boss to come up with results, Brock accidentally erases the stone tape with his experiments, and then dismisses Jill's warnings in his eagerness to cover up his mistake. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
| The Stone Tape / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The Others. Whatever is in the house is extremely old and extremely powerful. | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| The Stone Tape / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: Alan's friend Jackie was trapped in the haunted room during a childhood game of dare. | |
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Never My Fault | |
| The Stone Tape / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: Brock never accepts responsibility for anything that goes wrong, and constantly dismisses Jill's fears as an attempt to manipulate him. | |
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Haunted Technology | |
| The Stone Tape / int_98936e28 | comment |
Haunted Technology: "IT'S IN THE COMPUTER!" | |
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Eldritch Location | |
| The Stone Tape / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location / Absurdly Long Stairway: Jill flees up the short flight of stairs to nowhere, and somehow ends up on a high precipice surrounded by stars. | |
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Destroy the Evidence | |
| The Stone Tape / int_9f4bec33 | comment |
Destroy the Evidence: After Jill's death, Brock has the computer printout shredded, derides Jill as a lunatic and orders his team not to discuss the matter. | |
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Secret-Keeper | |
| The Stone Tape / int_9f970427 | comment |
Secret-Keeper: Implied with the Department of Conservation. | |
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Campbell Country | |
| The Stone Tape / int_a110e36d | comment |
Campbell Country: The castle only dates to the 19th century, but the foundations turn out to be a lot older. It even has "rats in the walls". | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_a300ab6f | type |
Living Memory | |
| The Stone Tape / int_a300ab6f | comment |
Living Memory: The stone tape is a residual memory of a past traumatic event imprinted into the stonework. | |
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Due to the Dead | |
| The Stone Tape / int_a679184b | comment |
Due to the Dead: Averted. Jill argues that the spirit should be treated with respect, but is overruled by Brock. Later Brock's colleagues are furious over how he emphasized Jill's mental instability at the coroner's hearing. | |
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Talk to the Fist | |
| The Stone Tape / int_b2407a69 | comment |
Talk to the Fist: Roy punches Brock in fury after he finds him destroying the evidence and deriding Jill as insane. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_bceedc69 | type |
Computer Equals Tapedrive | |
| The Stone Tape / int_bceedc69 | comment |
Computer Equals Tape Drive: Averted | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
| The Stone Tape / int_be6f7ae7 | comment |
Brief Accent Imitation: Whenever Brock quotes his boss, he does so in an Irish accent. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_c0d32460 | type |
Sexy Secretary | |
| The Stone Tape / int_c0d32460 | comment |
Sexy Secretary: One turns up with Crawshaw, and Brock doesn’t take long to bed her. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_c547f08d | type |
Ghostly Chill | |
| The Stone Tape / int_c547f08d | comment |
Ghostly Chill: The scientists speculate that the chill is caused by heat being drawn out of the air and converted to other forms of energy, to create the physical manifestation of the ghost. | |
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Even the Rats Won't Touch It | |
| The Stone Tape / int_c8d69cac | comment |
Even the Rats Won't Touch It: The strange noises in castle are said to be rats, but one character notes that there are still cans of spam left over from the war that would have been chewed open if that were the case. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
| The Stone Tape / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
Nothing Is Scarier: Given the limited special effects budget of a BBC television play of The '70s, the Others are only seen as glowing lights or an Impending Doom P.O.V. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
| The Stone Tape / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Brock gets called out several times on his jerkass behaviour, but continues to bully and bluster his way through events. | |
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| The Stone Tape / int_e384c244 | type |
Phone Call from the Dead | |
| The Stone Tape / int_e384c244 | comment |
Phone Call from the Dead: Some of the last words spoken by Louisa turn up in the computer printout. | |
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Jerkass | |
| The Stone Tape / int_eb8e4fa8 | comment |
Jerkass: Peter Brock, which he openly admits to Crawshaw. | |
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The Stone Tape |
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