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Still Life (The Twilight Zone)
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"Still Life" is the first segment of the fourteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone
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camera. Upon developing the photos, he discovers that they are of a 1913 National Geographic expedition to the Amazon. He decides to donate the photos to the local university. At the university, he meets Professor Stottel who was on the expedition. He tells Daniel that there could be no photos because the Kurucai Indian tribe they met in the Amazon felt that making any image of them was stealing their souls.
The Kurucai had smashed the camera and stalked the expedition along with abducting the photographer. Professor Stottel looks at the pictures and confirms they're genuine. However, the Kurucai who should be in the photos are missing. Daniel returns home to find the missing Kurucai inside his home. When the Indians attack them, Daniel and his wife use their cameras to recapture the Kurucai on film.
except the pictures in that episode are of the future rather than the past
The New Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.-Series history:...
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Synopsis
A professional photographer, Daniel, brings home an antique trunk for his wife. He discovers a false bottom in the trunk that conceals a Kodak Brownie 100Brownie (camera)
Brownie is the name of a long-running and extremely popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Eastman Kodak. The Brownie popularized low-cost photography and introduced the concept of the snapshot. The first Brownie, introduced in February, 1900, was a very basic cardboard box camera...
camera. Upon developing the photos, he discovers that they are of a 1913 National Geographic expedition to the Amazon. He decides to donate the photos to the local university. At the university, he meets Professor Stottel who was on the expedition. He tells Daniel that there could be no photos because the Kurucai Indian tribe they met in the Amazon felt that making any image of them was stealing their souls.
The Kurucai had smashed the camera and stalked the expedition along with abducting the photographer. Professor Stottel looks at the pictures and confirms they're genuine. However, the Kurucai who should be in the photos are missing. Daniel returns home to find the missing Kurucai inside his home. When the Indians attack them, Daniel and his wife use their cameras to recapture the Kurucai on film.
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This episode bears similarities to the 1960 episode of the Twilight zone A Most Unusual CameraA Most Unusual Camera
"A Most Unusual Camera" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:Two thieves, Chester and Paula, rob a curio shop, and among the things they steal is a strange camera. The pair come to realize that its pictures reveal the future, specifically five...
except the pictures in that episode are of the future rather than the past