Oct 30 2008
Features from the Outskirts: Twilight Zone - “Time Enough at Last” / Pink Floyd -”Time” Edited by Joe Humphrey
Twilight Zone - “Time Enough at Last” / Pink Floyd -”Time”
A short by Joe Humphrey
This piece edited by Joe Humphrey is a mash up of “Time Enough at Last” a 1959 episode of the Twilight Zone TV series and the Pink Floyd classic rock song Time from their 1973 cult hit album Dark Side of the Moon. The story was adapted from a short story by Lyn Venable published in the January 1953 edition of the science fiction magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction. The episode, “Time Enough at Last,” has become one of the most famous episodes of the Twilight Zone library. It tells the sullen story of Henry Bemis, (played by Burgess Meredith) who loves books and is continually striving to know and learn, yet is he is surrounded by those who feel such zeal and precociousness are a blight on his character. The episode follows Bemis through a nuclear war and what seems to be the end of the world, and foreshadows the dangers of anti-intellectualism, and a purely mechanical mindset and as Wikipedia notes, “the difference between aloneness (solitude) and loneliness.”
Original Episode Introduction: Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, [Burgess Meredith] a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He’ll have a world all to himself, without anyone.
Source: Wikipedia (various cited links)
Notes from the Outskirts: Dark Side of the Moon is known for the Dark Side of the Rainbow Effect Supposedly when the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz is played simultaneously the images and music seem erily suited to on another. However, according to various studies this can appear to be the case with any two media a fair majority of the time. The phenomenon is know scientifically as apophenia (http://skepdic.com/apophenia.html).
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