Posted on 12/31/2015 5:44:01 PM PST by keat
I'm watching the TZ marathon on SyFy. The current episode, "A Most Unusual Camera" is from 1960 and looks like it was shot on videotape. Did they do that back then? Looks like a cheesy soap opera.
Like there are not thousands of reading glasses near him in the debris.
But he couldn’t see them.
Darn! Darn! I wish I could get scify. I just have to wait for next year marathon. Hope I get a job by then to afford that channel. At least I have AMC.
Always liked the Willoughby episode.
1. Where would he 'look'? Everything was pretty smashed-up.
2. He didn't just have glasses, he had very thick 'coke bottle' lenses....he was already just a few steps above legally blind.
Me too.
Not every episode is a winner. Seems like every time I run into the marathon, I encounter that irritatingly dopey “Mr. Dingle, the Strong” episode. But of course, back then, network series were required to grind out 39 episodes a season, so there would always be a few seriously lame ones, even if the best of series. So I’m fairly forgiving.
Another series of the day, “Thriller,” hosted by Boris Karloff, had a whole slew of extremely bland episodes... but there are about ten extremely good and intensely spooky episodes that everyone remembers.
The process was called Kinescope. Basically everything was captured by a video camera and displayed on a CRT monitor. A film camera that was correctly synched to the video frame rate was then used to record the monitor display. This is why it looks so much like it was recorded on videotape without actually being videotape.
Another factor is that the video cameras at the time had different sensitivies to light in general and to specific colors as compared to film cameras, so this adds to their appearance being odd.
If it’s a camera that takes photos a few minutes in the future, that is a great one.
“You are a bad man Obama.....ZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT”
Love it.
Turn him into a lawn jockey.
It was shot on film
I know that episode and like it a lot. You are too jaded to jim-crack gimmicks. Twilight Zone relied on your involvement in the story line....and then there was the twist at the end
Lol well done.
Film.
No doubt about it.
A half-dozen episodes in that season were shot on videotape rather than film, in a cost-cutting move by CBS. The quality is noticeably inferior.
The Twilight Zone: The Lateness of the Hour (1960);
The Twilight Zone: Static (1961);
The Twilight Zone: The Whole Truth (1961);
The Twilight Zone: The Night of the Meek (1960);
The Twilight Zone: Twenty Two (1961);
The Twilight Zone: Long Distance Call (1961)...
and then transferred to film for broadcast, which saved the producers about $5,000 per episode.
From IMDB
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