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A Most Unusual Camera

Episode Number: 46    Season Num: 2    First Aired: December 16, 1960    Prod Code: 173-3606
Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future.

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Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Rich (II)
Star: Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  Jean Carson (Paula Diedrich),  Fred Clark (Chester Diedrich)
Guest Star: Adam Williams (Woodward),  Marcel Hillaire (Pierre)

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Marcel Hillaire would later appear in another TZ episode, "The New Exhibit." (edit)
Plot Keywords: crime / greed / humorous (edit)
Included on volume 19 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)

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Closing Narration
Narrator: "Object known as a camera, vintage uncertain, origin unknown. But for the greedy, the avaricious, the fleet of foot who can run a four-minute mile so long as they're chasing a fast buck, it makes believe that it's an ally, but it isn't at all. It's a beckoning come-on for a quick walk around the block in the Twilight Zone." (edit)
Opening Narration
Narrator: "A hotel suite that in this instance serves as a den of crime, the aftermath of a rather minor event to be noted on a police blotter, an insurance claim, perhaps a three-inch box on page twelve of the evening paper. Small addenda to be added to the list of the loot: a camera, a most unimposing addition to the flotsam and jetsam that it came with, hardly worth mentioning really, because cameras are cameras, some expensive, some purchasable at five-and-dime stores. But this camera, this one's unusual, because in just a moment we'll watch it inject itself into the destinies of three people. It happens to be a fact that the pictures that it takes can only be developed in the Twilight Zone." (edit)

Trivia

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How did the French waiter manage to plummet to his death at the end? It wasn't clear whether he tripped over something, fainted, or simply hurled himself over the sill, as the focus was taken off of him and placed on the camera. (edit)
How did the escaped-convict brother know where his sister and her husband were at after he escaped and jimmied open their door? The couple was staying in a hotel and they acted like they haven't seen him in quite when he appeared on the picture of him walking in the room. They said he coulen't possibly walk through the door cause he's been in prison for a year already. (edit)

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