Fans,
I don't think this short film ever screened in the US, but the plot synopsis makes it sound an awful lot like a plot point from the 1897 storyline--which aired of course in 1969, one year after this film's completion:
https://www.midnightpulp.com/david-bowie-did-an-x-rated-horror-film-in-the-late-60s/For those titillated by the mention of an X rating, it should be mentioned that in England in the Sixties, that was usually awarded for violence that transgressed the guidelines laid down by the official UK Film Censor Board. Although this article says that the movie screened in porno houses, I really doubt that was the case. All the classic Hammer horror films of the late 1950s and 60s were given the X rating and they played regular theatres, not "adult" venues.
Who knows? Maybe Sam and Gordon saw this at some Film Festival or art house in NYC and decided to borrow the idea for the whole Charles Delaware Tate thing...
G.
