Production Order #3 and Broadcast Order #8
Shooting Days: 31 May-10 June 1963
First Air Date: November 11, 1963
 
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"It's a crime to run away from fear."
--Major Brothers (Harry Guardino)
 
 
SHOT ANALYSIS
a thematic selection
 
 
1. Angle shots
 
a. High
 
Act I
• High angle shot lit high key with discreet shadows of waiting Major Brothers. Click to watch the picture!
 
Act II
• High angle shot of Dr. Hamilton looking at Major Brothers' explaination by using the blanket of the shrink's coach. Click to watch the picture!
 
b. Low
 
Act II
• Shot: low angle shot of Dr. Hamilton connecting the wires of Major Brothers' psychic helmet. Click to watch the picture!
• Low angle shot of Major Brothers seen through the arm of Dr. Hamilton. Click to watch the pictures!
• Low angle shot of the new Dr. Hamilton when the new Major Brothers discovers his change of social position (the doctor becomes the patient): Major Hamilton. Click to watch the picture!
 
c. Tilted
 
Act II
• Tilted angle shot when Major Brothers touches his face and realizes he is in Dr. Hamilton's body: Dr. Brothers. Click to watch the pictures!
• Tilted framing in the background whereas the new Dr. Hamilton is on the foreground. Click to watch the picture!
 
Act III
• Tilted angle shot on the new Dr. Hamilton dressed in kaki. Click to watch the picture!
 
Act IV
• Tilted and dark close up of wounded Major Brothers after the final mind transfer. Click to watch the picture!
 
 
2. Distortion
 
Act I
• A wild distortion thanks to a fixed camera with a wide angle lens: change of scale of shots (six levels): from full shot to extreme close up lit with a beam of light (thanks to closed barn doors) of frightening Major Brothers walking to the camera. Click to watch the pictures!
 
Act II
• A discreet distortion during the tense interview between Major Brothers and Dr. Hamilton: Brothers moves to the camera (from a close shot to a close up). Click to watch the pictures!
• A real distortion in close shot done with a wide angle lens with low key lighting and shadows of Major Brothers who nervously explains his destruction plan. Click to watch the pictures!
• Distorted extreme close up of Major Brothers turned into ape-like Dr. Hamilton. Click to watch the picture!
 
Act III
• Shot: distorted extreme close up of Major Brothers looking at Ingrid near the grill of the window lit low key. Click to watch the pictures!
• Shot: distorted low key extreme close up of Major Brothers warning Ingrid about the risks of telling the truth. Click to watch the pictures!
 
 
3. Low key lighting
 
Act II
• Deep shadow on Ingrid's face lighting a cigarette while leaving the office of Dr. Hamilton. Click to watch the picture!
• Harsh low key lighting on Major Brothers meeting Ingrid for the fitrs time in the corridor. Click to watch the picture!
• Harsh shadows on Major Brothers' face refusing to be a mentally incompetent officer. Click to watch the pictures!
• Zones of deep shadows on Major Brothers' face concluding his destruction speech. Click to watch the picture!
 
Act III
• Low key lighting on the medical staff preparing the sedative of Major Brothers. Click to watch the pictures!
• Deep shadow hidding the sick bay and the face of an orderly. Click to watch the pictures!
• Low key lighting on thinking Ingrid who figures it out the whole truth about the real Dr. Hamilton. Click to watch the picture!
• Low key lighting on Ingrid's face watching Major Brothers through the grill of his dark medical cell. Click to watch the picture!
 
Act IV
• Ingrid in the shadow on the verge of stealing the keys of the cells. Click to watch the picture!
• Low angle shot, lit low key, of running away Major Brothers coming out of the emergency hatch. Click to watch the picture!
• Zones of deep shadow on Ingrid's face while talking again to the real Dr. Hamilton after the final mind transfer. Click to watch the picture!
 
 
4. Scale of shots
 
Act II
• Scale of shots achieved with a wide angle lens: three characters in one frame (talking Dr. Hamilton in the background facing the back of the guard and Major Brothers in the foreground). Click to watch the pictures!
 
Act III
• Scale of shots of disregarded Ingrid and the new Dr. Hamilton looking for a gun: Ingrid is seen in close shot in the back then in front (out of focus) from the foreground and the new Dr. Hamilton is seen in the front in the background at a remote distance. Click to watch the pictures!
• Scale of shots done low key (depth of field due to a wide angle lens): emprisoned Major Brothers lied on a bed seen in the foreground, Ingrid's shadow appears on the wall of the cell then Major Brothers is out of focus and Ingrid popup in the grilled window's door in the background. Click to watch the pictures!
• Scale of shots : in the same frame, Major Brothers and Ingrid. Click to watch the picture!
 
Act IV
• Shot with depth of field and scale of shots of Ingrid and the orderly: Ingrid, back turned, stares at the orderly in the foreground while the orderly, back turned, opens the door in the background. Click to watch the pictures!
• Reverse shot with depth of field and scale of shots of Ingrid and the orderly: the orderly's face is seen in the foreground so that Ingrid is seen in the background moving to the door. Click to watch the pictures!