Twilight Zone in Close-ups

"Facial expression is the most subjective manifestation of man, more subjective even than speech, for vocabulary and grammar are subject to more or less universally valid rules and conventions, while the play of features... is a manifestation not governed by objective canons, even though it is largely a matter of imitation. This most subjective and individual of human manifestations is rendered objective in the close-up." Béla Balázs from Theory of the Film

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1.34 The After Hours

Director: Douglas Heyes

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

Editor: Bill Mosher

First Aired: 10 June 1960

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1.34 The After Hours

Director: Douglas Heyes

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

Editor: Bill Mosher

First Aired: 10 June 1960

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1.34 The After Hours

Director: Douglas Heyes

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

Editor: Bill Mosher

First Aired: 10 June 1960

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1.34 The After Hours

Director: Douglas Heyes

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

Editor: Bill Mosher

First Aired: 10 June 1960

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1.34 The After Hours

Director: Douglas Heyes

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

Editor: Bill Mosher

First Aired: 10 June 1960

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1.34 The After Hours

Director: Douglas Heyes

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

Editor: Bill Mosher

First Aired: 10 June 1960

"Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store, carrying Miss Marsha White on a most prosaic, ordinary, run-of-the-mill errand. Miss Marsha White on the ninth floor, specialties department, looking for a gold thimble. The odds are that she'll find it—but there are even better odds that she'll find something else, because this isn't just a department store. This happens to be The Twilight Zone."

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3.37 The Changing of the Guard

Director: Robert Ellis Miller

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“They all come and go like ghosts. Faces, names, smiles. The funny things they said or the sad things, or the poignant ones. I gave them nothing. I gave them nothing at all. Poetry that left their minds the minute they themselves left. Aged slogans that were out of date when I taught them. Quotations dear to me that were meaningless to them.”

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On this day in 1962, "The Changing of the Guard" hit the airwaves for the very first time!

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3.36 Cavender is Coming

Director: Christian Nyby

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“Small message of reassurance to that horizontal young lady: don’t despair, help is en route. It’s coming in an odd form from a very distant place, but it’s, nonetheless, coming.”

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"Cavender is Coming" aired for the first time on this day in 1962!

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3.35 I Sing the Body Electric

Director: James Sheldon, William F. Claxton

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Ray Bradbury

First Aired: 18 May 1962

"As of this moment, the wonderful electric grandmother moved into the lives of children and father. She became integral and important. She became the essence. As of this moment, they would never see lightning, never hear poetry read, never listen to foreign tongues without thinking of her. Everything they would ever see, hear, taste, feel would remind them of her. She was all life, and all life was wondrous, quick, electrical—like Grandma."

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3.35 I Sing the Body Electric

Director: James Sheldon, William F. Claxton

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Ray Bradbury

First Aired: 18 May 1962

"They make a fairly convincing pitch here. It doesn't seem possible, though, to find a woman who must be ten times better than mother in order to seem half as good, except, of course, in the Twilight Zone."

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1.25 People Are Alike All Over

Director: Mitchell Leisen

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“They’re taking a highway into space, Man unshackling himself and sending his tiny, groping fingers up into the unknown.”

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"People Are Alike All Over" first aired on this day 66 years ago!

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5.25 The Masks

Director: Ida Lupino

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

First Aired: 20 March 1964

"Mardi Gras incident. The dramatis personae being four people who came to celebrate and, in a sense, let themselves go. This they did with a vengeance. They now wear the faces of all that was inside them–and they'll wear them for the rest of their lives, said lives now to be spent in the shadow."

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5.25 The Masks

Director: Ida Lupino

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

Writer: Rod Serling

First Aired: 20 March 1964

"Mardi Gras incident. The dramatis personae being four people who came to celebrate and, in a sense, let themselves go. This they did with a vengeance. They now wear the faces of all that was inside them–and they'll wear them for the rest of their lives, said lives now to be spent in the shadow."

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3.26 Little Girl Lost

Director: Paul Stewart

Director of Photography: George T. Clemens

“Missing: one frightened little girl. Name: Bettina Miller. Description: six years of age, average height and build, light brown hair, quite pretty. Last seen being tucked in bed by her mother a few hours ago. Last heard: ‘Ay, there’s the rub,’ as Hamlet put it. For Bettina Miller can be heard quite clearly, despite the rather curious fact that she can’t be seen, at all.”

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On this day 64 years ago, "Little Girl Lost" first hit the airwaves!

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5.23 Queen of the Nile

Director: John Brahm

Director of Photography: Charles Wheeler

“Jordan Herrick, syndicated columnist, whose work appears in more than a hundred newspapers. By nature a cynic, a disbeliever, caught for the moment by a lovely vision. He knows the vision he’s seen is no dream; she is Pamela Morris, renowned movie star, whose name is a household word and whose face is known to millions.”

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"Queen of the Nile" aired for the first time on this day in 1964!

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4.07 Jess-Belle

Director: Buzz Kulik

Director of Photography: Robert W. Pittack

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

First Aired: 14 February 1963

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4.07 Jess-Belle

Director: Buzz Kulik

Director of Photography: Robert W. Pittack

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

First Aired: 14 February 1963

Jess-Belle: I want to win a man's love. Granny Hart: Well, womankind's got her own kind of witchcraft for that. Jess-Belle: He was mine for a while. Came sneaking off at night, kept a-quiet what went on between him and me. Never took me anyplace for the world to know. He made me promises. He made them when his face was hot as blood. Forgot them as soon as he was ten feet from my door. Granny Hart: Honey, you don't know much about men, do you? Jess-Belle: Only him.