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.
To the cornfield!!
They are showing every episode, in order. I’ve scanned ahead and set several favorites to record, like “The Hunt”, and “Hocus Pocus & Frisby” where Andy Devine gets abducted by aliens and defeats them with his harmonica - but he’s such a BS artist his pals don’t believe him.
Once again, the Freeper community is second to none on specialized knowledge and arcana.
“TZ was shot on film I believe.”
Yes, it was shot on film. I have some of the original camera film used for the special effects.
“Like there are not thousands of reading glasses near him in the debris.”
Wow. Thanks for saying that, it makes me feel a lot better about that episode. I’m not kidding. Happy new year!
There is an episode I like, but they don’t seem to air it much, called “Midnight Sun”. Something happens to the earth’s orbit and the sun is getting hotter and hotter. People are in a panic including a woman who is about to die from the heat. At the end, it turns out that the woman is feverish and was having a nightmare. Instead, the sun is actually getting colder and everyone is going to freeze to death.
“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 6 episodes shot on 2-inch videotape were: “Night of the Meek”, “Twenty-Two”, “The Whole Truth”, “Static”, “The Lateness of the Hour”, and “The Long Distance Call”.
Not Al Gore’s favorite episode I take it.
What makes you think that there were reading glasses in the debris near him? Also, he couldn't see well enough to find them. If anything, he should have went looking while he still had his original pair.
My picture is just fine.
When the show KICK THE CAN...watch it; you’ll see the difference.
Just searched for ‘twilight zone free’ and there are lots of hits.
Tried this one and it plays full screen.
“http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/watch/";
I know that Kine was used from the beginnings of T.V./the ‘40s; but TZ is late ‘50s, so maybe you’re right and it was taped. *shrgs*
Could be. A lot of TV history is gone anyway.
I’ve set up a few quad playbacks and got good at it since I had a very good couple of teachers.
This gif is from another Thriller that Shatner did. He was all over the place in the late fifties/early sixties.
Broken in the blast, probably and he is almost completely blind without his own prescription glasses.
That one always makes me cry.
Why do I get dragged into watching it for a couple of hours when I have the full DVD set already?
They would reuse and reuse kinescopes until they wore out, which is why, sadly, most of very early T.V. shows are now only seen in one'/s own memory.
I know that some KUKLA, FRAN, and OLLIE were preserved, but that show was on for decades.
I have several oldish, now, books on early T.V.,but mostly, I just have memories and one very old ( 1949 ) newspaper clipping. :-(
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