Monday, December 14, 2009

For Wednesday 16 December 2009: Third from the Sun (You should email to Stella before class time at 3:10 on Wednesday.)

THIRD FROM THE SUN

View this episode from The Twilight Zone here then answer the following questions. Email your answers before class time at 3:10 on Wednesday 16 December 2009. (For our film students, note the deep focus lens which creates an eerie distortion in many shots, and also the canted camera angles, to the same purpose.)

    1. What does Bill Sturka tell the gate guard is his specialty?
    2. In the impending war, how many hours before the military has its aircraft aloft?
    3. What is the enemy expected to do in the meantime?
    4. How many people does Sturka say might die instead of the usual 50 million?
    5. What does Carling accuse Sturka of being?
    6. What time does host/narrator Rod Serling say it is at the plant?
    7. What does he say is hanging invisible over the summer night?
    8. According to the daughter, Jody, what is her mother trying to urge out of the ground?
    9. What does Jody expect her father to do with her before supper?
    10. What does the father tell his daughter is spread out in a few photo albums?
    11. How many pieces does Sturka say is in one bomb?
    12. What does Sturka's wife, Eve, say that people have been noticing?
    13. What does Sturka say that people do with every great idea?
    14. What does the father (Sturka) tell his daughter (Jody) to do with her date?
    15. What can't the wife give words to?
    16. When do the conspirators have to be out of the house?
    17. What kind of stories does Jody say Jerry had better tell?
    18. What has Jerry been hot at the past couple of weeks?
    19. Does Ann know anything of Sturka's plans?
    20. When does Sturka want Jerry to come around?
    21. In their pretend conversation, when does Sturka tell Jerry to have his watch checked?
    22. How far is their destination?
    23. What does Carling ask to drink?
    24. What has Jerry being doing up north?
    25. What kind of card player does Jerry call Sturka?
    26. What does Carling say can happen in a week?
    27. What does he like to do on warm evenings?
    28. What does Carling say may be on the stars?
    29. How many months have Sturka and Jerry been planning their trip?
    30. What are we told won't exist much longer?
    31. Where does Jerry tell Jody  they will be in the morning?
    32. Where does Sturka tell the telephone caller that he is?
    33. How does Carling tell the men to breathe?
    34. With whom does Carling say Sturka and Jerry have an engagement?
    35. How does the loud speaker announcer classify the vehicle on the field?
    36. What time is it when Sturka says all is well?
    37. What is the third planet from the sun?

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