1973 movie poster

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Credits

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In 1973, with Brian Hodgson at their newly-formed Electrophon studio, Delia helped create the soundtrack for The Legend of Hell House. Decidedly Delian elements are the tam-tam backing in The Approach to the House.

According to Brian Hodgson:

She did a little bit on The Legend of Hell House but not very much. She was not in the right state; she was not really at her most creative at that point. She seemed almost on the edge of a breakdown, of really not knowing what she wanted to do and feeling the pressures were all too great.^[1]

and

Delia at that time was going out with a really peculiar bloke. We called him the Black Dwarf because he was very swarthy and Delia was very tall and if he appeared in a room with Delia you could palpably feel every ounce of creativity drain. It was like a black hole [...] sucking out the creativity. [...] So she was really not much use, I'm afraid. She was not in the mood for work. She would stand around taking her snuff. That was an unhappy time for me [...] feeling that I had been abandoned by Delia.^[2]

Her handwritten notes^[3] credit:

Producer: Albert Fennel
Director: Johnny Hath
Editor: Geoff P.
Dubbing editor: Peter

Copyright

The Performing Right Society's list of works by Delia Ann Derbyshire has:

Title	Writer(s)	Publisher	Creation date
Legend of Hell House	Derbyshire, Delia Ann; Hodgson, Brian Garner	W B Music Corp; Chappell Music Ltd	1 January 1984
Legend of Hell House	Derbyshire, Delia Ann; Hodgson, Brian Garner	Warner Chappell Music Ltd.	12 August 1996
Legend of Hell House 52	Derbyshire, Delia Ann; Hodgson, Brian Garner	Twentieth Century Music Corp; W B Music; Warner Bros Inc.; Warner Chappell Music Ltd.	8 April 2000
Legend of Hell House 61	Derbyshire, Delia Ann; Hodgson, Brian Garner	W B Music Corp; Chappell Music Ltd	8 April 2000

Papers

Folder DD336 contains her notes for Hell House:

DD165929: Handwritten notes "Academy roll off"
DD165940: Handwritten notes "cat attack"
DD165950: Handwritten notes "House noise more menacing"
DD170006: Handwritten notes "Daniel's voice"
DD170021: Envelope dated 9 Feb 73
DD170035: Handwritten frequencies "Master Sunday 4th March"
DD170050: Handwritten notes "31 CUES"
DD170111: Handwritten notes [1] Hell House "Starts getting funny at station"...
DD170131: Handwritten notes [2] Hell House "Fisher attacked"...
DD170140: Handwritten notes [3] Hell House "voices - speaking & singing"...
DD170150: Handwritten notes [4] Hell House Contents of REEL 1 & 2
DD170200: Handwritten notes [5] Hell House Contents of REEL 3
DD170209: Handwritten notes [6] Hell House Contents of REEL 4
DD170217: Handwritten notes [7] Hell House Contents of REEL 5 & 6
DD165920: Handwritten notes [8] R1
DD170226: Handwritten notes [9] R2
DD170237: Handwritten notes [9] R3
DD170256: Manuscript "Mix 1" / "Mix 2"
DD170314: Manuscript "Peter"
hellhouse_cuesheet: Cue sheet 5M1 "Statue silhouette & sex scene" (29 cues)
DD170334: Cue sheet 9M1 "Florence's attempt to destroy machine" (24 cues)
DD170354: Cue sheet 9M2 "Florence's visit to chapel to warn Daniel" (25 cues)
DD170419: Cue sheet 9M3 "Florence dies trapped under crucifix" (cues 1-28)
DD170433: Cue sheet 9M3 "Florence dies trapped under crucifix" (cues 29-31)
DD170455: Cue sheet 10M1 "House exorcised" (20 cues) 10M2 "Barrett's death" (cues 1-7)
DD170509: Cue sheet 10M2 "Barrett's death" (cues 8-39)
DD170537: Cue sheet 10M2 "Barrett's death" (cues 40-49)