How many of you guys remember this episode?
http://youtu.be/yrd-0673SOI
http://youtu.be/yrd-0673SOI
Twilight Zone Billiards
- Thread starter Balabushka_Man
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I saw this episode
I wonder if anyone recognizes what cues are being played or the ones on the wall...?
Yep... I was only 12 years old when that first air'd...yikes.
Again, I always wondered what cues they were playing ?
Looks like Martin cues. It would also make sense since this was probably filmed in Southern Ca.
I read a book on Twilight zone and it said in this story they changed the ending. In the original short story Fats Brown wins.
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This is a great episode. :grin:
Remember it? I have a few of these hanging on my wall in my pool room.
Anyone remember Fats Brown and Jesse Cardiff playing doubles against Rod Serling and this other guy? Only in... The Twilight Zone!!!
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Very cool... Notice the ferrule & tip differ on Rod's cue... Looks like the first ever LD shaft
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I have it on DVD and watch it every now & then. I love the way the last few balls on the table in the deciding frame move from place to place. It's also cool how when they get down to the last ball on the table and they both need it, they don't rack the other 14 balls up even though they're playing 14.1.
Only in the Twilight Zone
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Very cool... Notice the ferrule & tip differ on Rod's cue... Looks like the first ever LD shaft
That's why we beat them so badly and Fats is riding Jessie's a$$ over it. Rod was our secret weapon... the first LD shaft pulled from the future... Only in The Twilight Zone.
Wanna see their fear when the game ball was about to drop?
I love Photoshop.
And if you ever want to try something hard... try to make the opening shot that Jesse Cardiff made at the very beginning of the episode. I've come close to pulling it off but I don't won't to wear out my rails or cloth because it will take about 100 tries to pull it off the first time.
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Are you kidding, that shot is like a 1 in 3 or 1 in 2 to make. It is just a double kiss with some spin and it makes almost every time very easy.
I'd love to have a couple of those shots to have printed and framed - do you have a source?
Was the doubles match part of the compete episode? Or happen off camera?
You flatter me my friend. This is all Photoshop sorcery on my part. I have the full episode on HD Blueray. I have a BR burner/player on my PC so I took screen captures of several scenes and then cropped and crafted to place Rod Serling (and myself) into the frames. I dressed myself in clothing that I thought might fit in with the 1961 pool players theme and took many photos at my own table so that I would have a good selection for any frames that I chose to alter.
The shot of Rod Serling in the background was actually taken from the monolog at the beginning of the episode. He was standing with a cigarette in one hand and a pool cue in the other... so I had to include him in my work.
The trick was trying to distort and pixelate my modern high res photos properly to match the 60's grain of television and also to get the black and white shades to match evenly across the shot. In my opinion it's not my best work... but they were good enough for me to print and frame.
Because of the older resolution of the show I only printed them in 8" x 10" because anything larger was going to just get too grainy.
The doubles match was just a comment made to go along with my graphics work. Sorry if I got your hopes up about unknown knowledge of the show that doesn't actually exist. It was just something that I put up quickly when I saw the thread and probably should have been a little more obvious about it. That's why I added in my comment "I love Photoshop".
There was however originally a third character in "A Game of Pool" which was Fats Brown's girl friend. Those scenes were deleted from the episode and I have never seen them in any outtakes.
Sorry for the misunderstanding of my work.