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- From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
- Subject: Re: Twilight Zone... Videotaped?
- Message-ID: <72735@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 08:37:06 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- References: <1JAN199305524409@mary.fordham.edu>
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- >
- >WPIX ch. 11 New York (City) is showing a 24 Hr. Zone marathon for New
- >Years, while watching I saw something strange. There are at least two
- >episodes that looked videotaped, not filmed. One was called
- >"Twenty-Two", it was about a stripper who premonitions the crashing of
- >her plane while in the hospital (not the greatest or truest synopsis).
- >
- >Anyway were any T. Zones videotaped?
- >- Darin
- >
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- Yes, either 3 or 4 episodes of the original run were videotaped.
- It was done as a cost-cutting measure to keep the series under its
- budget for that particular season. What you're seeing on teevee now
- are "kinescopes" of the original tapes, that is, the tapes were preserved
- by pointing a camera at a monitor and filming them. Back in the olden
- days (late 50s, early 60s), videotape was a young technology and
- was very expensive so tape was recycled and used again instead of being
- used once and then stored. (Still, it was less $$ to shoot on tape
- than to make a mini-movie on film).
- Visit any good bookstore and pick up "The Twilight Zone Companion"
- if you enjoy the series, it's an invaluable guidebook, and can fill
- you in on all the details of these few taped episodes.
-
- By the way, here's a trivia question that all good Zone fans can
- answer: one episode of the Zone was purchased by Rod Serling and
- ran only once as an original episode - it was actually an award
- winning French short film. What was the title of this episode
- and who was the author of the original short story on which it
- was based?
-
- Harv
-