A Most Unusual Camera

A Most Unusual Camera

Infobox Television episode
Title = A Most Unusual Camera
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = Fred Clark in "A Most Unusual Camera"
Season = 2
Episode = 46
Airdate =December 16, 1960
Production = 173-3606
Writer =Rod Serling
Director =Buzz Kulik
Guests = Fred Clark : Chester
Jean Carson : Paula
Adam Williams : Woodward
Marcel Hillaire : Waiter
Music =
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = The Trouble With Templeton
Next = The Night of the Meek

"A Most Unusual Camera" is an episode of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone".

Opening narration

ynopsis

Two thieves, Chester and Paula, rob a curio shop; among the (otherwise worthless) loot is a strange camera. The pair come to realize that its pictures reveal the future, specifically five minutes ahead. After Paula’s escapee brother Woodward shows up, they decide to use the camera to take pictures at the racetrack. The trio win every time and leave with a considerable sum.

Back at their hotel, the French waiter notices their unusual camera and mentions the curious inscription (hitherto missed by the trio): "ten to an owner". The gang rush the waiter out of the room and determine that they now have only two pictures left. They disagree on how and when to use those remaining. While tugging over the camera, a picture is wasted (revealing Paula recoiling in horror). The men fight each other and, in their struggle, fall out the window to their deaths. Paula (after a curious show of mock remorse) takes a picture of the courtyard below the window and begins collecting the day's winnings before checking out. Before she can leave, the waiter returns and robs her. He then notes that her last picture shows "more than two" bodies in the courtyard. Puzzled, Paula goes to the window, trips over a wire and falls out the window. Then the waiter counts the corpses, "Yes, there are more than two bodies down there. Just like the picture shows. One, two, three... four?" Shocked, he falls too, leaving the camera lying on the ground.

Closing narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

References

*DeVoe, Bill. (2008). "Trivia from The Twilight Zone". Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
*Grams, Martin. (2008). "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic". Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090

External links

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* [http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/a-most-unusual-camera/episode/12630/summary.html TV.com episode page]

Twilight Zone links

*The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
*Episode List
*Season 2
* Say Cheese and Die!


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