A Most Unusual Camera
- by Rod Serling, directed by John Rich
- TV Episode
- Weird Fiction
- Adults
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- “A Most Unusual Camera” by Rod Serling, directed by John Rich (CBS-TV, 16 December 1960).
Petty thieves Chet and Paula Diedrich are frustrated, angry, and in a bickering mood when they find nothing but cheap junk in the 400-lbs. of stuff they lifted from a curios store in the middle of the night, . . . until that boxy looking camera with the indecipherable label—dix à la propriétaire—produces a photo of the immediate future.
—Michael Main
Yeah, it takes dopey pictures—dopey pictures like things that haven’t happened yet, but they do happen.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1960 to 1969: Chet calls Paula “Miss Culture of 1960.”
- Timeline Models
- Foretold or Seen Future Is Inevitable: This is The Twilight Zone. What did you think was gonna happen?
- Single Consistent Timeline: Everything
- Viewing the Future
- Themes
- Get Rich Quick through Time Travel: This is The Twilight Zone. What did you think was gonna happen?
- Photographing Another Time
- Groupings
Variants
(1)
- “A Most Unusual Camera” by Rod Serling, directed by John Rich (CBS-TV, 16 December 1960).
Derived Works
(1)
- Say Cheese and Die! by R. L. Stine (April 1992).