The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
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| “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” | |||||||
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 Scene from "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" |
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 4 |
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| Written by | Rod Serling | ||||||
| Directed by | Mitchell Leisen | ||||||
| Guest stars | Barbara Jean Trenton: Ida Lupino Danny Weiss: Martin Balsam Jerry Hearndan: Jerome Cowan Marty Sall: Ted de Corsia |
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| Featured music | Franz Waxman | ||||||
| Photographed by | George T. Clemens | ||||||
| Production no. | 173-3610 | ||||||
| Original airdate | October 23, 1959 | ||||||
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"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening narration
| “ | Picture of a woman looking at a picture. Movie great of another time, once-brilliant star in a firmament no longer a part of the sky, eclipsed by the movement of earth and time. Barbara Jean Trenton, whose world is a projection room, whose dreams are made out of celluloid. Barbara Jean Trenton, struck down by hit-and-run years and lying on the unhappy pavement, trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame. | ” |
[edit] Synopsis
Aging film star Barbara Jean Trenton secludes herself in her private screening room, where she reminisces on her past by watching her old films. In an attempt to bring her out into the real world, her agent Danny Weiss arranges a part for her in a new movie and brings a former leading man to visit her. But this only drives her further into seclusion. Then one day, Barbara Jean's maid finds the screening room empty — and is horrified by what she sees on the screen. Danny comes over and sees on the screen the living room of the house, filled with movie stars and Barbara Jean as they appeared in the old films. She throws her scarf toward the camera and departs just before the film ends. In the living room, Danny finds Barbara Jean's scarf.
[edit] Closing narration
| “ | To the wishes that come true, to the strange, mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own. To Barbara Jean Trenton, movie queen of another era, who has changed the blank tomb of an empty projection screen into a private world. It can happen in the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Trivia
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- Many features of this episode resemble those of the 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, of which foremost is the main character as an aging film star. Norma Desmond also watches her old films inside her private screening room. Franz Waxman composed the scores for both Sunset Boulevard and "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine."
- Ida Lupino and her then-husband Howard Duff portrayed mature film stars in the 1957-58 situation comedy Mr. Adams and Eve.
