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The Twilight Zone - Volume 19
Warner Vision/Warner Vision . R4 . B&W . 100 mins . PG . PAL

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A Most Unusual Camera
Episode 46, December 16, 1960
Some petty crooks (a very popular target of the series) going over their latest haul discover a camera, a most…now what's the right word…let's call it a most "weird" camera. Now, this isn't your everyday normal camera, this is a camera from the Twilight Zone, and you won't be needing Kodak to develop these pictures. Lordy no, these pictures pop right out of the camera case, and the best bit is that the photos it takes are of the future. So the crooks start a thinkin’…

The Jungle
Episode 130, December 1, 1961
A voodoo curse is placed on a businessman planning on building an hydroelectric dam in Africa. But these are modern times and we’re modern men, this voodoo-schmoodoo is just a bunch of hocus-pocus malarkey. So what's a dead goat doing outside your apartment door then, Mister Modern Big Businessman? Waiting for a bus? I don't thiiiink so…

The 7th Is Made Up Of Phantoms
Episode 130, December 6, 1963
June 25th, 1964. Three soldiers are playing wargames near Little Big Horn, the site of Custer's Last Stand nearly 87 years before. Strange things are starting to happen. They've heard gunshots and Indians in the distance and are seeing strange things that just don't belong in the present…

Uncle Simon
Episode 128, November 15, 1963
For twenty-five years, Barbara has taken care of her Uncle Simon. Twenty-five long, thankless, painful years caring for a rich, rude, angry, uncaring and ungrateful uncle. But she thinks it will all be worth it when the old bastard dies and leaves her everything. But he's going to leave her something that she didn't count on, and I don’t mean crabs…

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We've come to expect a good job with the sound and picture on The Twilight Zone dvds, and suprisingly it appears that things have slightly improved again. The fullframe black and white image looks quite good for its age, with a fairly even and consistent quality across the seperate episodes. None of the shows are trying to aim for an overly artistic look and so the lighting and composition are fairly middle of the road, aiding in an easy transfer to disc, with good blacks and greys and the usual smattering of scratches and fleck on the print to add to the feeling of history and nostalgia.

Ditto the slight improvement with the sound. While some previous episodes on certain dvds had a fairly audible hiss, this release sounds clearer with just the varying sibilance to dialogue being the main flaw. Otherwise, dialogue is easily understandable and the score and effects fairly well reproduced.

The extra features on the dvd consist of a selection of text based screens. They contain a Rod Serling Biography, Season By Season Commentary, History Of The Twilight Zone and Reviews of the individual episodes on the disc. Sure, it’s not a comprehensive package, but there’s some good (but brief) reading, and the reviews are quite interesting.

A bit of a mixed bag with the stories on this dvd. Without a general theme to really tie them together, this release probably well illustrates how diverse the show could really be. They're far from being the best examples of the show, but as with virtually every dvd released so far in this series you're bound to find something here to like.


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