Score for The Twilight Zone season two episode "Eye of the Beholder" (AKA "Private World of Darkness"). Music composed by Bernard Herrmann and conducted by Joel McNeely. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED.
Bernard Herrmman kept this score virtually irresolute until the very end, the 10:43 mark, where the tonic Bb major chord finally sounds. But, the chimes resonate an Ab, the minor 7th of the chord, which would ordinarily seem unresolved except that the timbre/sonority of the chimes, so distinct from the winds in tone, toll poignantly, harmoniously, and separately for the two people walking hand in hand toward a place where others "of their own kind" reside. My eyes well up with tears whenever I hear that Ab tolling twice for the two "ugly" people whose true beauty can be seen so clearly, but only in the eyes of benevolent beholders. Sheer brilliance by Bernard Herrmann.
Rod Serling was Way ahead of his time for the 1950's. I have always thought in this episode, that the screens that slide down from the ceiling with the politician or dictator as it were,speaking so fervently, looked a hell of a lot like LCD or plasma screens.that they did not have the technology to produce like they do now.
DUSTERDUDE238 They had the technology but it was "under wraps'. The technologies we see today are actually "old". They were discovered by private scientists/inventors .electronics corporations and wherever else.America was somewhat "rural" in those days. We were just beginning in the modern age. The corporations were very aggravated because they had a hard time trying to sell their products and get the market as well as groom people for their employ. Thus they began grooming my generation through the public school systems. Those types of Televisions would not be accepted. They were too much of a contrast with the average home decor. Way too much of a shock! It took many people years to get a telephone let alone a TV! People were very independent and NOT dependent on technology the way they are today .In order for people to accept these technologies they fed it very slowly to the public. So, they made use of the ideas on television! If you check out (on You-Tube) a show called "Science Fiction Theater" you will be shocked at how much more advanced the concepts are than even today. One episode had a "Roomba" vacuum cleaner .There is also another show even earlier (late forties/very early fifties) called "Tales of Tomorrow). All you see today stems from those concepts first introduced on TV! while you are at it look up a TV commercial from 1969 (internet in 1969) and you will see what we have today! and it was already gathering dust THEN! You would also be interested to know that the cell phone was invented in the early 1900's! What can I say accept " Nothing is what it seems" You'll figure it out. They don't want people looking in the past because that is where they hid the future and now present.
bewiseasowls Hmm OK. I will look these up. tho I was just musing and stating a personal opinion at the time. "What can I say accept Nothing is what it seems You'll figure it out." there was no need for such a high handed down-dressing. treat others with a bit of respect and common decency and you will get the same in return " YOU'LL figure THAT out." or you will be sitting alone with no one to knit-pick and find fault with except yourself.
The doctor was portrayed by talented actor, director, producer and writer William D. Gordon. I was especially impressed by his voice. One could not only tell what his character thought but what he felt, without even seeing his face. Perfect casting.
Herrmann had that vibraphone incorporated into all 7 episodes he scored...and tracked throughout all other 156 episodes and his 1st season theme (the better one)
Suspended in time and space for a moment, your introduction to Miss Janet Tyler, who lives in a very private world of darkness. A universe whose dimensions are the size, thickness, length of the swath of bandages that cover her face. In a moment we will go back into this room, and also in a moment we will look under those bandages. Keeping in mind of course that we are not to be surprised by what we see, for this isn't just a hospital, and this patient 307 is not just a woman. This happens to be the Twilight Zone, and Miss Janet Tyler, with you, is about to enter it.
I remember seeing a clip of that scene! I wish i could get this whole episode on youtube! There seems to be some seriously good performances in it! But that scene you mentioned... I'd like to think that polititians are NOT making speeches like that and that if they are they get called lunatics for making them... Sadly, it's looking more and more likely that if people's lowered I.Q. #'s aren't making them applaud such madness, the lowered expectations ARE.
True, I hate to admit this, but everytime I hear someone go on and on about how wonderful something is when I DESPISE it. It gets worse when they act like I'm a FOOL for not enjoying it as much as they do! So it's okay when THEY do that but when I do it I'm being inflexable? ARGH!
the vibraphone used in Bernard's work sounds very similar in timbre to the synth used in "calling you" also there are some ascending arpeggiated chord's in this piece that are in the same key and also used in "calling you"
