The Sinbad movies, featuring the Dynamation delights of stop-motion pioneer, Ray Harryhausen, represent another essential component of my childhood viewing. Many rainy Sunday afternoons were spent delighting in Harryhausen's fantastical creations and Sinbad's various quests, trials and tribulations. Bernard Herrmann's score for the Harryhausen-produced The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) is lushly orchestrated, effortlessly evocative and a delight to revisit, and in the swooning Baghdad movement, you'll detect nascent hints of Herrmann's Vertigo. Be sure to listen out for the Duel With The Skeleton @ 2.15 - you can hear the bones clacking together. (You can view the sequence here).
Overture/The Duel With The Skeleton/Baghdad
For excerpts from Herrmann's The Day The Earth Stood Still score, go here.
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