Do you remember the good old Disney movies? I mean the animated shorts. About 8 minutes of bliss each. Pure inspiration!
Well here are two golden oldies that have something in common. They beautifully illustrate how everything in life comes in waves:
Susie, The Little Blue Coup (1951)
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The Little House (1952)
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You can watch the complete movies right here.
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Fantasy, science-fiction, horror and paranormal TV series and movies are on the rise, yet most of the new generation fans (today’s teenagers and twens), especially those outside the US, are not at all familiar with one of the major classics of the genre. More than a classic, The Twilight Zone series is a giant.
The Twilight Zone is an American TV anthology series. For those who don’t know, the phrase anthology series means that each episode presents a different story and a different set of characters. The original series aired from 1959 to 1964 and included 156 episodes. In 1985 Rod Serling, the creator of the original series, came up with the first revival featuring 65 new episodes. While each episode was unique, common elements included a bizarre development of the story and twist-endings.
If you love suspense and the extra-ordinary, if you are a fan of science-fiction, fantasy or the paranormal, it is – quite simply put – wrong to celebrate series like “Fringe”, ‘Lost’ or ‘Supernatural’ and not know The Twilight Zone.
For fans, enjoy this trip down memory lane with a few episodes of The Twilight Zone. For newbies, oh how some of us envy you! You are about to take the first steps towards an amazing journey. Enjoy the below two complete episodes from the 1985 revival of this legendary series.
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With computers and internet connections becoming faster and faster, coupled with common video editing getting simpler and simpler, all those “good ‘ole” television shows and movies are resurfacing. Some are coming out on DVD, others on Blu Ray, but also they are being released on streaming media sites. Places where you can watch episode after episode of your old favorites.
But how great is it really? For myself, I have had a few experiences where I was so happy that I found an old TV series or movies that I watched when I was a kid, but then upon watching it again, I realized that it wasn’t all that great as I had remembered it. I just shattered one of my cherished childhood memories.
It’s really kind of depressing… but then again not. On the one hand, yes you have pulled back the curtain of a childhood impression and seen the magic with adult eyes and through doing so destroyed the related emotions, or feelings, experienced during that time. However, on the other hand you have now realized through the contrast of the experience how, or in what ways, you have changed. And now you can evaluate yourself from a whole different perspective!
You can judge whether you have lost a bit of that “inner child” that made you such a joy to be around, if you lost a fundamental part of your imagination, or if you simply matured and left the childish aspects of your personality behind.
Of course this phenomenon is not limited to child vs. adult experiences. I remember that my wife and I had watched “Dark City” and there was this scene where Jennifer Connelly was standing on stage singing “Sway With Me“. For my wife and I, for a long while to come, this scene was the example of sexiness without nudity or cheap theatrics. Then came the day we bought “Dark City” on Blu Ray… after that scene we looked at each other and reassured each other that it must be a later scene. But it wasn’t. We were both distraught and amazed. For us the scene was longer and much more seductive than it appeared in the movie. We even had thought that the scene was different on the blu ray than the DVD. But alas, it was just our perception of the scene. The reason why… we may never know…
