At 74 years of age I feel that the world I knew as a youth has disappeared and everything now is unfamiliar, strange and often threatening.This wonderful score by Bernard Herrmann is evocative of friendlier and saner times. The many times I have watched "Walking Distance", I become overwhelmed with a sense of loss and melancholy.
@Jim Thompson - This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I am 8 years younger than you and definitely relate to what you said. We need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@Jim Thompson: I feel the same way. I can’t believe how much this country has changed in what seems like such a short time. I feel that it has become so dangerous, nothing happens to the criminals. You can get punched in the head just walking in a safe neighborhood by a stranger -- or even walking to your car after getting groceries ending up in the hospital - some with permanent life altering damage and there are no consequences for the person who committed the assault. Almost every day it’s a new nightmare. I no longer recognize my country. Stay safe.
@John Piper: I agree with you -- but I fear that the swarmy democrats will somehow have the fix in. I hate to think it -- but I’m thinking that the USA is doomed at this point. I hope that I am wrong. (I feel like I’ve already left this comment. Maybe under another video. Oh well.)
@@lilybond6485 Hi Lily! We are living in the "end times" before Christ's return to earth with power and great glory. What you see is a worldwide "prep" by the evil deep state and evil elite setting up a one NEW WORLD ORDER & great tribulation is coming. Mark of the beast 666 where you can neither buy nor sell anything without the mark. Most likely a micro chip implanted. Spoken of in the bible. Wars and rumors of wars. Nations against nations. WW3 is coming. Jesus even spoke of these days where: "good will be called evil ... and evil will be call good." God may allow us to get back the House and Senate Nov 2022. Hopefully #Trump2024. The current administration is totally evil, marxist and Communist, anti GOD. I believe this is a wake up call to America to return to GOD. Today is like the evil biblical city of Sodom & Gohmorra - which he destroyed b/c of continuous evil. . The answer is JESUS. Believe on Him and trust Him as Lord and Savior. Take care ... be well... stay safe. VOTE! John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #TRUMP2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍😎
We are living in the "end times" before Christ's return to earth with power and great glory. What you see is a worldwide "prep" by the evil deep state and evil elite setting up a one NEW WORLD ORDER & great tribulation is coming. Mark of the beast 666 where you can neither buy nor sell anything without the mark. Most likely a micro chip implanted. Spoken of in the bible. Wars and rumors of wars. Nations against nations. WW3 is coming. Jesus even spoke of these days where: "good will be called evil ... and evil will be call good." God may allow us to get back the House and Senate Nov 2022. Hopefully #Trump2024. The current administration is totally evil, marxist and Communist, anti GOD. I believe this is a wake up call to America to return to GOD. Today is like the evil biblical city of Sodom & Gohmorra - which he destroyed b/c of continuous evil. . The answer is JESUS. Believe on Him and trust Him as Lord and Savior. Take care ... be well... stay safe. VOTE! John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #TRUMP2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍😎
This score is so beautiful. It has that beautiful but sad feeling of lost youth, days gone by, and missed opportunity. Friends we grew up with but no longer keep in touch with. Lost loved ones. The disenchantment with adulthood and the corporate world which many can relate to. The speed of the modern world. Time seemed to move so slow up until my mid twenties...like I had all the time in the world. Now days go by at the speed of light. This episode captures all of those feelings for me and this score is a big part of it. Walking Distance doesn't really have a big twist ending or reveal like a lot of the best TZ episodes but it cuts deep.
There actually is a bit of a twist since he walks with a limp which apparently he didn’t seem to have at the start of the episode- in a way by going back in time he changed his own history-he remembered falling off the carousel but he never remembered exactly why.
Derek Gabrys. Yeah, I can relate to that. I remember watching this with my dad when I was 17. I thought I had all the time in the world. My dad told me life is fleeting but I never really tried to understand what he meant or the melancholy behind Martins sentimental journey. How ironic now that my father is gone, I finally understand Martin’s longing for his youth, lost love and feeling lost in this crazy world.
It's hard to imagine this high art being embraced today. It's not that the public wouldn't appreciate it, but the producers would nix it due to the costs of paying the composer, the musicians, and for the studio time. So today we end up with VST orchestras on a laptop and a composer with a 3 day deadline to churn out something palatable. No one is daring to be great.
Martin Sloan age 36, Vice President in charge of media, successful in most things, but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives- trying to go home again. And also like all men perhaps they’ll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he’ll look up from what he’s doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind they’ll flit a little errant wish- that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry go rounds of his youth and he’ll smile then too because he’ll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really. Some laughing ghost that would cross a man’s mind. That are a part of the Twilight Zone.
We all want to go back for one summer afternoon. To be carefree, to enjoy the simple pleasures of childhood. This is one of the most poignant TZ episodes. The care that went into it, from script to cinematography to music, is impressive. It always leaves me wistful. A quality fantasy program is capable of giving something profound and lasting to its audience.
I remember watching this episode with my father many years ago. And we talked about life but I was too young to understand the melancholy of yearning for ones past. How ironic that now my father has passed away, I can finally understand how Martin really felt in that story. Life truly is fleeting and short once past.
Can anyone imagine any modern 30 minute show on today's television coming up with a score as poignant, haunting and heart-achingly melodious as this????
At the carousel, shortly after the “Martin’s Summer” theme resumes at 10:45. there’s a beautiful dimming of lights to accompany the tilted camera angle shot, combined with the wistful music and the kids gradually exiting the frame. This is superb, effective filmmaking in a moving and memorable episode.
Yes; this has always been the high point of the episode for me. The slow, almost "ritualistic" processional of silent kids in the darkness...very stylized...accompanied by Herrmann's stately HANDELIAN/Baroque chord progression, is an uncanny and striking moment, which signals that the childhood fantasy now must end. LR
The carefree time of childhood with no worry about having to find a job,house,car,having health problems the rat race of being an adult, Oh,I Wish I Was A Kid Again.
This is music of reminiscence in dreams. My parents died long ago, but in some dreams they are still alive, and if I awake when the dream is still vivid, I don't immediately remember that I live alone This music recalls that experience.
Kirsten I. Russell I go through the same experience. My father was tragically killed in a car accident many years ago and for a long time I tried not to think about him because it made me too melancholic. But for some reason every time I was flying up at high altitudes, his memories would flood back and I would become very quiet and sad. This was very noticeable to my co-pilot, so I used to become self-conscious about it. Now, once in a while he appears in my dreams like he is still very much alive but much younger looking than as I remember him and we talk sometimes. Even after I wake up, for the first few minutes, I still think he’s still alive. Death is still very hard to deal with because it is so final.
many of herrmann's scores try to articulate this feeling through music. his scores for vertigo and the ghost and mrs. muir are very similar to this, very haunted and nostalgic. he's pretty much my favorite composer ever.
@Allie Hamilton: I will NEVER forget hearing Princess Grace’s favorite music “Adagio for Strings” by Barber -- that was played at her funeral. The tears just started streaming uncontrollably down my face. This piece has the same effect but I guess more because this is my favorite.
THIS is the only TZ episode that tugs at my heart .The theme resonates universally .Its about how time passes by so quickly and how sometimes we find ourselves longing to go back to a simpler time when we didn't have a care in the world and our parents , other family members and friends were still alive .Starting at 5:53 is the most beautiful part
I’m at that stage now Linda. It’s hard dealing with this current world and all of the madness going on. -- but really what am I saying -- it has always been going on -- but when I was young I was sheltered from it or maybe we, our parents were just not aware. One of the downfalls of the internet. You find out what is going on in another part of the world in an instant. So we know all of the horrors.
This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@ Brian: Agree. My innocent wonderful childhood with my 3 best friends (sisters) down the block. Sleepovers every weekend, we’d go to the show on weekends, parents picked us up, we’d go home and make cookies, parents let us stay up in the wee hours of the morning, sometimes we’d stay up to watch the sunrise. We’d play monopoly and other board games at night, softball, volley ball, tiger baby stop, on and on . My childhood was magical. I wish I could go back to the late 50s, early 60s --- my parents and grandparents were alive -- yeah -- just let me go back for a little while. This is my favorite Twilight Zone that makes me think about all the fun my friends in the neighborhood and I had. Just let me live it again. To this day I love pink cotton candy. Sorry for rambling.
@@lilybond6485 Me too ... and don't forget the marbles .... clearies .... steelies. My favorite T.Z. episode of all time too! WALKING DISTANCE. I was 3 when this came out. Watch this every year and has same emotionaly charged effects on me always and never, ever, gets old. Rod's masterpoece indeed! Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024
@John Piper: I remember those marbles. I loved those clear marbled -- deep red, pale orange, dark green, light green, pale aqua, most had imperfections in them - like little bubbles. Held on to them for the longest time. They were at my parents house - the shrine they kept of my childhood bedroom - up until my father passed and then my brother got rid of everything and sold their home. I’m going to have to ask him if he kept the marbles. I almost don’t want to know if he tossed them. He’s not a keeper of things. I lived 1,200 miles away at the time and he saved only a few of my childhood “treasures”. Well -- I guess saving my original 1st edition Barbies in mint condition, and all of my Beatles records and loot was pretty good. 😉
@@lilybond6485 How about those paper caps with gunpowder in a red, white and blue box ? Putting strips on the side walk and using a rock pounding them to make them ignite. Or the little color plastic squirt guns and water ballons in the summer time. "Sun showers" Those small simple kight wooden planes you assemled to fly. Or Bazooka Bubble gum. The real Superman George Reeves and Louis lane. Addams Family. Shoe lace licorice. The Lone Ranger! And yes the playground. All of the merry-go-round scenes move me deeply in "Walking Distance." I am not too far from Rod Serliing's childhood home. I remember the blizzard of 1966 when I was 10. Christmas's were happy and the stores were lighted with very colorful bulbs - the big ones .... Santas everywhere. You could trust your neighbors most of the time. We walked to school etc. This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. "YEAH .... THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE" Men were men ... ladies were ladies ... boys and girls were just that. How about the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school with hand on your heart. Police - we used to get a short motorcyle ride from the police when I was about 6 in 1963. TAKE CARE ... SEMPER FI #USMC #TRUMP2024
I don’t know a lot about music, or Bernard Herrmann but I do know that he’s written some of the most beautiful movie music scores I’ve ever heard. Particularly Journey to the Center of the Earth.
This beautifully written and produced episode deeply evokes the longing people have for loved ones and past experiences long gone. It's especially poignant in these troubled times and extreme individualism.
I would like to die in my sleep and wake up back in my childhood with my parents, grandparents, all of my friends in my wonderful middle class neighborhood and give up all of my current assets, possessions which have always been very important to me. I’d give it all up in an instant -- to go back.
YEAH - THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE." Masterpiece of Serlings and Bernard Herrmann!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤ Remember any? Memories early 60s. I was 3 in 1959. How about those paper caps with gunpowder in a red, white and blue box? Putting strips on the side walk and using a rock pounding them to make them ignite. Or the little color plastic squirt guns and water ballons in the summer time. "Sun showers" Those small simple light wooden planes you assemled to fly. Or Bazooka Bubble gum. The real Superman George Reeves and Louis lane. Addams Family. Shoe lace licorice. The Lone Ranger! And yes the playground. All of the merry-go-round scenes move me deeply in "Walking Distance." I am not too far from Rod Serliing's childhood home. USAF base Propeller B-17 bombers flying overhead. I remember the blizzard of 1966 when I was 10. Christmas's were happy and the stores were lighted with very colorful bulbs - the big ones .... Santas everywhere. You could trust your neighbors most of the time. If you are reading this far watch the Twilight Zone episode "Night of the Meek." Another masterpiece for Christmas! We walked to school etc. This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. "YEAH .... THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE" Men were men ... ladies were ladies ... boys and girls were just that. How about the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school with hand on your heart. Respect for the USA flag. American pride. Police - we used to get a short motorcyle ride from the police when I was about 6 in 1963. TAKE CARE ... SEMPER FI #USMC #TRUMP2024 Anti Marxism! Anti Communisim! PRO AMERICA! PRO CONSTITUTION! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I love the TZ & Walking Distance is one of my favorites & the music is just heaven. Hopefully when we go to the next life heaven will be like this, back to when you were a kid playing & hanging out with your friends, that’s how I see heaven, what heaven is & means to you. GOD Bless & stay safe Merry Christmas & Happy New Year💯✝️🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It will be .... Jesus says he shall wipe all tears from their eyes..... eyes have not seen nor ears heard the things that GOD has prepared for those that love Him.
@amzdaniel858 - It will be .... Jesus says he shall wipe all tears from their eyes..... eyes have not seen nor ears heard the things that GOD has prepared for those that love Him.
Thanks for sharing this! This IS definitively my all time favorite episode "WALKING DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and amazing job as well - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have been looking for the portion starting at 4:00 for a long time. It plays as late as Season 5 and I never realised it premiered so early in the series. It is so atmospheric.
The strings at 14:46 are nothing short of angelic. Each pass of the strings is deliberate and drawn out for effect. it is a wonderful way to end this piece and it gives me a feeling I cannot describe in words
while i can't say much has been as good as herman's there is still great stuff being written. season 5 of doctor who from Murray Gold, bits of the Mandalorian by Ludwig Goranson etc.
I thought the score for Ozark's (first season, particularly) was very good. Game of Thrones had a compelling score too (particularly its earlier seasons), along with Chernobyl, The Queen's Gambit and The Mandalorian.
Beautiful , beautiful scores of music so special they speak a language of sound that express emotion like words never can. Bernard Herman, very rare talented man . The scores he wrote are so blending. Scores from “Walking Distance” can so easily be edited with most of all of his pieces leaving some music editor with an unlimited field for creativity.
This is going to sound pretentious but when I think about the 1950s through the early 60s, BH is one of the people that defines this time period, for me.
Todo lo que rodeó a Serling fue fantástico y hermoso a la vez. Las actuaciones, las historias, la música. Cada parte de TTZ es una obra de arte en sí misma. Irrepetible creación sin tiempo.
Everything around Serling was fantastic and beautiful at the same time. The performances, the stories, the music. Every part of TTZ is a work of art in itself. Unrepeatable timeless creation.
This score was written a number of weeks before I was born but I did see the episode as a youngster and the music is what got to me ...sad and heavy with the pain of memory and yet also somehow uplifting. Bernard Herrmann was a genuis and was able to match the tone and mood of the episode perfectly. I also think that it resonated deeply within him as I'm sure he sometimes felt that he wished he had done things differently over the course of his life. As to Serling's work and Gig Young's acting..."superb" is probably not a good enough word to reflect how deeply respectful I am of it. I saw the episode a few times over the years but the viewing that really hit me was one where I watched the episode late at night a couple of weeks after my mother's passing...I finally understood deep within me what Serling was getting at a much better level of understanding than I ever had before. The scene where Gig Young meets his long deceased parents at the front door of his childhood home is especially poignant. It brought me to tears... the direction...using the screen door to create an ethereal and tenuous barrier between parents and grown-up child...just wonderful. Please tell me of any other tv show at the time that could come close to this brilliance. Our world lost a great deal with the passing of Bernard "Benny" Herrmann and Rod Serling. Sadly I don't think we will ever see this quality of work on television ever again. Vale Benny, Vale Rod...you taught me so much about life in thirty minutes of a black and white teleplay. God bless you both.
Very nice essay. Thank you! Rod Serling would have been deeply touched if he were alive today to read it. Perhaps you can tweet it...or I can on my Twitter site if you want...while linking my Walking Distance rundown. i.postimg.cc/c46YM1fP/Tripsadelica-comment-1orange.jpg .... twitter.com/ZeffanieandBill ....
Agree! This IS definitively my all time favorite episode "WALKING DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and amazing job as well - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
How lucky T-Zone music fans are to have the isolated scores from most episodes in the Blu-ray and even the prior DVD editions-and with respectably good sound quality. If only the same were so with Outer Limits and Stoney Burke..
Sentimental Musical score.....sweet, precious the feeling of touching close and closer to your past to Mom and Dad to merry go rounds, cotton candy ....a warm feeling of their love...and left with a deeper longing for ....what we had THEN 🙂🙏🕊✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
@Stephanie Alexander - This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍✝✝✝
I remember watching this haunting episode, and remembering how beautifully sad the music was. I'm amazed now to find not only the clean audio of the soundtrack, but the sheet music as well! And seeing the comments here, I'm glad I'm not alone among the viewers of "Walking Distance" in thinking this was one of the best and most beautiful soundtracks from the "Twilight Zone". It reminds me somewhat of Sibelius' symphonic poem "Swan of Tuonella", another haunting piece with similar orchestration, and written in the same key of A minor. Thank you for posting this!
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for posting this music. While watching the Twilight Zone episode, "Walking DIstance", I was so moved and impressed by the music I Googled to hopefully learn more about the music, only to be grateful to find the music and information and to learn the music was original to the very Twilight Episode episode. How utterly wonderful is the music and the Twilight Zone "Walking Distance" story itself - along with the fabulous acting talent in the story, including Academy Award winners Gig Young and Ron Howard.
@James Daniel: I will always remember Gig Young by this episode of The Twilight Zone. Alcoholism is a very serious illness. You probably know that. It can change a person to something completely different and obviously destroy one’s life.
Herrmann wrote original scores for 7 twilight zone episodes..out of these 7 scores the music ended up in several other episodes as well as other TV shows of the day
First time I saw this episode on TV on one of those Twilight Zone Marathon, I was blown away by this musical score. It really was more than half the equation of this episode. The storyline was interesting enough but this musical score was fantastic and very moving. It is reminiscent of the theme musical score for the movie The Ghost and Mrs Muir.
@@lilybond6485 Yes that is true. Music really enhances and conveys the mood and feelings the writer/director wants the audience to feel. It transcends the limitation of our language.
What you're hearing is what's called in music theory a Circle of Fifths. It's a very natural progression to one's ear. Essentially, it's a relationship between notes based on both acoustical and mathematical calculi (the former can be heard, the latter is a bit more complicated to explain). A famous example often taught in music theory classes is Dido's Lament, from Dido and Aeneas, the opera by British composer Henry Purcell. Go about a minute in here: ruclips.net/video/ihxX-s5mu0M/видео.html. You can certainly find theoretical explanations by Googling the term "Circle of Fifths." Bernard Hermann, one of film's most iconic composers, uses it beautifully here (if you watch the scene where it's employed). It's pretty remarkable what he was able to do with the limited resources available to him (and "The Twilight Zone" in general), but with a small string section and a harp (an instrument he loved), he creates one of the best scores in 'the program's history.
Listen at 2:37..the high harmonic strings countered with soothing low basses takes me into the netherworld..I really love the drugstore and memories cues
Beautiful score. I like how the music, as Herrmann would say, can stand on its own. At complete odds with the contemporary aesthetic that underscores should not really be heard/distracting. I find the music of this episode captivating for the exact reason that it is noticeable. You hear it and go "what is this music telling me?" It adds and speeds up the main character's developmental arc to the point where the episode is fabulistic, which I like. Artistic works should help us learn things about ourselves and give us a chance to reflect on the way we live our lives.
Everyone's picking out pretty much the same favorite section but for me, it's the section of the score called "The Park" at starting 3:58. The delicate melody and use of string harmonics accompanied by the harp is just perfect.
This episode was a masterpiece. Perfect casting, storyline and music. I believe it touched all viewers because of a longing to "go back." But when Martin's father said, " Try looking ahead, " we got a profound message. By the way, does anyone know why Serling often used the name "Sloan?"
No, but we can guess why Serling used the third name in this list: Track shot closer on Martin as he calls off the names of the houses. MARTIN: Van Buren. Wilcox. (Then looking across the street) Over there Dr. Bradbury. Mulroony.
@Thomas Vasiloff: I remember seeing this as a pre-adolescent - the original showing. I remember thinking “How sad. It must be horrible to be that old and longing for your wonderful childhood -- but that would never be me” -- and now it IS me. I never thought I ever would be watching this video and feeling just like Martin Sloan -- but I am and thinking right back to the moment I thought that.
@@lilybond6485 This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@John Piper: I completely agree with your comment -- but I don’t think that we will ever go or get back to what the USA once was. It feels like it is too late. By the time 2024 is here -- the Biden administration will have done way too much damage and change to ever go back. People pouring into the country -- over one and a half million that we have no idea who they are, where they are, or where they are from and some that have been caught already are known terrorists. High ranking military men and former military men have stated during an interview that it we are going to have another attack like 911 and it will be bigger and worse than that. No - I am sad to think that former America is gone forever and things are going to get a lot worse. Stay safe. It makes me very sad.
@@lilybond6485 Looks like my very long message got deleted. 😱 We will win back the House and Senate and Trump will be President again! Take care be safe ... VOTE! Ultra RED Wave is coming! Semper Fi #USMC 👍👍👍👍👍👍✝
Cleverly filmed episode, including shots of the cigarette vending machine mirror transitioning to the drug store soda fountain mirror...then later the carousel resuming its counterclockwise motion transitioning to the clockwise motion of the juke box turntable. Most carousels turned counterclockwise to allow the rider to reach out to grab the brass ring for a free ride, but due to insurance only some still employ the game today.The music first evoking the carousel is “Artists’ Life”, a waltz by Strauss, not actually on a calliope but on a Wurlitzer 165 band organ.
@@lilybond6485 Thank you! This definitely ranked as one of the best episodes in the series. I’ve worked at many public service jobs as a tour guide, sales associate,etc. but because of my interest in carousels I was an employee at 5 different ones including the huge antique wood 1908 carousel in Central Park,NYC. When you look at the art, music and history of carousels and how they’re such an oasis and subjective experience for each person, you’ll really come to appreciate the uniqueness of carousels.
Anthony Simpson anygoround: That 1908 carousel in Central Park must have been a beautiful sight to see. I can think back to my childhood in New Orleans riding on the carousel at the lakefront (Lake Pontchartrain) in the sweltering heat of summer. The breeze on my face and hair. I can clearly see my mother standing there holding my cotton candy. It was so hot and humid -- that when the ride ended - my cotton candy was literally melting small red droplets -- but it tasted even more delicious that way.
@@lilybond6485 That’s a great memory about the cotton candy. The manager Sal Napolitano at Central Park Carousel was also the concessionaire, and sometimes in later years had to work with others who were the concessionaire, but was in charge most of the time and remained on-site for over 40 yrs mostly due to his knowledge of the carousel’s mechanism, etc. He also was enterprising in a vast choice of souvenirs and refreshments to be put nearby including a cotton candy machine on a cart unit which he built most likely with his dad who had been a carpenter. I did lots of duties at the carousel but didn’t get too involved with the treats or souvenirs, but my girl friend at the time, now my spouse, did an illustration which was used on some of the souvenirs. Anyway, your story reminded me … I remember the cotton candy (spun sugar) was in traditional pink or turquoise blue, colors normally so sweet and not found in nature! Anyway, your story was certainly sweet.🎪🎠
@@lilybond6485 Hey, I just realized that your name Lily has sort of an unusual connection -or I should say “bond” with carousels! The Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945 show “Carousel” which initially inspired me to be interested in the rides and working at them, was based on Hungarian Ferenc Molnar’s 1921 dramatic fantasy play “Liliom” which when translated means “Lily”! The main character is a roughneck of an antihero but the flower’s name is given to him as sort of an ironic nickname, plus there are several symbolic references to flowers and nature elements throughout the play itself. You may already be familiar at least with “Carousel” which certainly had some of the most beautiful music ever written.🎪🎠
I have several already on my site such as: ruclips.net/video/V2iPwWvFcmU/видео.html [Little Girl Lost] ruclips.net/video/TPn0i44egCc/видео.html [Living Doll] ruclips.net/video/7x24ifOnmt4/видео.html ...but mostly I have a series of videos on indivdual cues from the various TZ episodes...
Darkly beautiful score, as always, by Herrmann. But very typical of him. This is very similar to his music for Jane Eyre (1944) and Fahrenheit 451 (the finale of that film particularly). High-pitched violins and mournful cellos, plus lots of harp -- signature Herrmann.
This was a high-caliber or high drawer episode so it deserved extra attention, so not a typical approach for Herrmann, altho he did his best for most of his projects since he had excellent dramatic instincts!
What you're hearing is what's called in music theory a Circle of Fifths. It's a very natural progression to one's ear. Essentially, it's a relationship between notes based on both acoustical and mathematical calculi (the former can be heard, the latter is a bit more complicated to explain). A famous example often taught in music theory classes is Dido's Lament, from Dido and Aeneas, the opera by British composer Henry Purcell. Go about a minute in here: ruclips.net/video/ihxX-s5mu0M/видео.html. You can certainly find theoretical explanations by Googling the term "Circle of Fifths." Bernard Hermann, one of film's most iconic composers, uses it beautifully here (if you watch the scene where it's employed). It's pretty remarkable what he was able to do with the limited resources available to him (and "The Twilight Zone" in general), but with a small string section and a harp (an instrument he loved), he creates one of the best scores in 'the program's history.
Martin's father was wrong. There aren't band concerts & cotton candy anymore. The world isn't that kind of place anymore, the young generation seems to revel in moral debauchery. This kind of innocence doesn't have a place here anymore. This episode makes me cry every time I see it. Because Martin grieves for the 1930s when he's in the (almost) 1960s. And because I'd rather be in the 1960s than the 2020s. Who plays marbles on the sidewalk anymore? Who strolls around the park wearing dresses & bonnets? I miss a way of life that I never knew. Sigh...
@Allie Hamilton-Calhoun - This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 1 Reply
Speaking of Outer Limits, the opening music in the carousel scene is exactly the same as that used in the carousel scene in Walking Distance”-although here it runs almost full length. Indeed, it sounds so much like Strauss. Would anyone know the title, the composer and who may have recorded this version?
Fahrenheit 451 - a 1966 film directed by François Truffaut based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury. Music by Bernard Herrmann. There is definitely a “sound” of BH scores and that brings a smile to his fans. You can hear it from his borrowers and imitators also. The highly stylized TV streaming show “Ratched” is a recent example.
Who knows. There's so many little things that affect the decisions a composer makes when notating. In the context of the rest of the parts, the rest of the piece... it just made more sense for him to notate it like that. There's no key signature, but let's say, hypothetically, he's thinking in Eb minor... There's a diatonic Ab and a Cb. So it would be way easier to read if he puts a flat on F as well. Imagine if he put a flat on A and C but put a natural on Eb... it'd be much more confusing. But, again, who knows what his real reason was...
I personally had it xeroxed back in 1989 when the CBS Papers at UCLA were first available. After that year, UCLA changed their policy not to allow photocopying....
YEAH - THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE." Masterpiece of Serlings and Bernard Herrmann!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤ Remember any? Memories early 60s. I was 3 in 1959. How about those paper caps with gunpowder in a red, white and blue box? Putting strips on the side walk and using a rock pounding them to make them ignite. Or the little color plastic squirt guns and water ballons in the summer time. "Sun showers" Those small simple light wooden planes you assemled to fly. Or Bazooka Bubble gum. The real Superman George Reeves and Louis lane. Addams Family. Shoe lace licorice. The Lone Ranger! And yes the playground. All of the merry-go-round scenes move me deeply in "Walking Distance." I am not too far from Rod Serliing's childhood home. USAF base Propeller B-17 bombers flying overhead. I remember the blizzard of 1966 when I was 10. Christmas's were happy and the stores were lighted with very colorful bulbs - the big ones .... Santas everywhere. You could trust your neighbors most of the time. If you are reading this far watch the Twilight Zone episode "Night of the Meek." Another masterpiece for Christmas! We walked to school etc. This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. "YEAH .... THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE" Men were men ... ladies were ladies ... boys and girls were just that. How about the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school with hand on your heart. Respect for the USA flag. American pride. Police - we used to get a short motorcyle ride from the police when I was about 6 in 1963. TAKE CARE ... SEMPER FI #USMC #TRUMP2024 Anti Marxism! Anti Communisim! PRO AMERICA! PRO CONSTITUTION! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@John Piper: In all seriousness - your comment made me tear up. I remember all of those things. I was fortunate to grow up in a middle class neighborhood where all of the parents looked out for all of the kids. - and all good kids I must say. I loved those cap guns -- it was like a roll of a red paper strip with little darker circles of what I assume was gun powder. Playing cowboys and Indians in our huge fenced in back yard with lots of trees. When we get tired of playing cowboys and Indians - we’d start climbing the trees -- and also in the sweltering heat of the south, one of our neighbors put in a swimming pool. I remember diving into that pale blue green water when the temperature outside was so incredibly hot. It was to me the greatest feeling in the world. I was a tomboy. Drove my brother nuts trying to hang out with him and his friends. We’d end up playing games where they would tie me to a chair or a tree and then they would disappear. I fell for it every time. 😂
@@lilybond6485 Hi Lily 🙂Yes those trees we used to climb them too and play "Tarzan". Yes cowboys and Indian here too. LOL. My oldest sister used to do cart wheels and the hool-a-hoops. Remember those roller skates with the mechanical metal in front toe you cranked with a key I think to tighten. My older brother and PLayed on the side walk with our toy pedal car and tractor. YES .... THAT IS WALKING DISTANCE. I remeber my brother and I watching popeye - eating spinach to make us super strong. LOL Also the times we imitated George Reeves Superman an attempted to jump out the second floor window with sheets to float us down - not so fast - ouch. We were okay. But did not do again. I was Johnny Angel to my mother that song from 1960 Shelley Fabres - my oldest sister always called me that too. Now they are both gone. My oldest sister passed one year ago. Memories now past but alive in our hearts. YES THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE. The good news I never left my hometown. Memories everywhere. We will get our country back! The demigod Biden (with his speech last night) is dividing this country in half using our own citizens to turn against us. WE patriots "are the enemy of the STATE) Communism! Vote in 2024 if Trump runs I think he will. Take care my fellow playmate of "Homewood" Keep your eyes on GOD. He is in control. But we law abiding patriots with GOD's guidence will prevail over evil, lies, and so on. Be sure to be plugged into Newsmax (FREE) Sean Hannity, Dr Sebastian Gorka, attorney Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, etc. Stay away from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc fake news and propaganda. Be well stay safe. TRUTH IS OUR REAL DEFENSE. Walking Distance should be aired every Christmas like It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Scrooge etc. ETERNAL CLASSIC to the deepest depths of the human heart. Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 🙂👍👍👍👍✝✝✝
@Lily Bond - Hi Lily 🙂Yes those trees we used to climb them too and play "Tarzan". Yes cowboys and Indian here too. LOL. My oldest sister used to do cart wheels and the hool-a-hoops. Remember those roller skates with the mechanical metal in front toe you cranked with a key I think to tighten. My older brother and PLayed on the side walk with our toy pedal car and tractor. YES .... THAT IS WALKING DISTANCE. I remeber my brother and I watching popeye - eating spinach to make us super strong. LOL Also the times we imitated George Reeves Superman an attempted to jump out the second floor window with sheets to float us down - not so fast - ouch. We were okay. But did not do again. I was Johnny Angel to my mother that song from 1960 Shelley Fabres - my oldest sister always called me that too. Now they are both gone. My oldest sister passed one year ago. Memories now past but alive in our hearts. YES THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE. The good news I never left my hometown. Memories everywhere. We will get our country back! The demigod Biden (with his speech last night) is dividing this country in half using our own citizens to turn against us. WE patriots "are the enemy of the STATE) Communism! Vote in 2024 if Trump runs I think he will. Take care my fellow playmate of "Homewood" Keep your eyes on GOD. He is in control. But we law abiding patriots with GOD's guidence will prevail over evil, lies, and so on. Be sure to be plugged into Newsmax (FREE) Sean Hannity, Dr Sebastian Gorka, attorney Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, etc. Stay away from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc fake news and propaganda. Be well stay safe. TRUTH IS OUR REAL DEFENSE. Walking Distance should be aired every Christmas like It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Scrooge etc. ETERNAL CLASSIC to the deepest depths of the human heart. Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 🙂👍👍👍👍✝✝✝
@John Piper: Did you live in my neighborhood ? 😂 We did everything you mentioned. Exactly the same. forgot about those steel skates. Played Tarzan - again - up in the trees. One of the parents built a wooden playhouse -- up in their tree. We thought it was so great - having that tree house to escape to. I - am so grateful that I grew up before computers, internet, cell phones, technology, There were 3 channels on TV that signed off around midnight I believe,mwith the American flag waving and the Star Spangled Banner playing. I’m taking a serious walk down memory lane here. Funny you should mention Shelley Fabares. She is a distant cousin of mine. Yes. The next election can’t get here fast enough. That Biden speech last night was appalling. Biggest liar and evil man. In my opinion.
@@lilybond6485 Hi Lily 🙂I do not think we were neighbors, although the many similar memories would make you think so. If you lived in the city where Griffiss Air Force was, or one of the playgrounds called "Pinti field", or elementart school "Hatvey E. Alter" then absolutely. LOL I think the things we mentioned were very common nation-wide. Yes we had a tree fort in the trees behind the apartments. I remember the tv station identification signing off - old glory flag flapping proudly on screen and national anthem audio PROUDLY played. Indeed. Real pride to be American. WOW! Thankyou for mentioning your distant cousin Shelley Fabares - small world after all. Since her heart touchjng song came out in 1961, my dear late mother and now late oldest sister always called me "Johnny Angel" after Shelley's beautiful song! So happy to express this, if not directly to Shelley but thru the bloodline - you. Hahah. Thanks for sharing this. 😇😇😇 Yes, the Biden speech was a display of a Soviet Stalinistic Projection on we the people: (Republicans, Conservatives, MAGA Patriots). We will overturn the House and Senate in Nov. Trump was in PA rally Saturday on NewsMax - register free on smart tv or your cell phone. Also get on Trump's social media site called truthsocial it is free! WALKING DISTANCE - Interesting facts!!!! Jodi Serling said in a 2019 interview with SyFy Wire that "Walking Distance" was her father's favorite episode of the show because it was "a very personal story for him" and there were "pieces of him in it". Serling stated it was her favorite episode as well due to her father's connection to it, further saying: "My father every summer would take a ride from our place on Cayuga Lake, which is in Ithaca, and he would ride an hour to Binghamton, New York, and revisit his hometown. It was like his private journey of seeing his old house. It's still there on Bennett Ave., going on the merry-go-round - which isn't the same merry-go-round - and walking the streets as he did when he played marbles with his friends. That episode is so nostalgic [for me] because it's so much about my dad, I can't help but see him."[3] I feel the same for sure and glad Jodi shared this! Take care .....be well... stay informed ... do your part #House2022 #Senate2022 #Trump2024 we PATRIOTS fight to win! Semper Fi #USMC 👍👍👍👍👍😎
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At 74 years of age I feel that the world I knew as a youth has disappeared and everything now is unfamiliar, strange and often threatening.This wonderful score by Bernard Herrmann is evocative of friendlier and saner times. The many times I have watched "Walking Distance", I become overwhelmed with a sense of loss and melancholy.
@Jim Thompson - This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I am 8 years younger than you and definitely relate to what you said. We need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@Jim Thompson: I feel the same way. I can’t believe how much this country has changed in what seems like such a short time. I feel that it has become so dangerous, nothing happens to the criminals. You can get punched in the head just walking in a safe neighborhood by a stranger -- or even walking to your car after getting groceries ending up in the hospital - some with permanent life altering damage and there are no consequences for the person who committed the assault. Almost every day it’s a new nightmare. I no longer recognize my country. Stay safe.
@John Piper: I agree with you -- but I fear that the swarmy democrats will somehow have the fix in. I hate to think it -- but I’m thinking that the USA is doomed at this point. I hope that I am wrong. (I feel like I’ve already left this comment. Maybe under another video. Oh well.)
@@lilybond6485 Hi Lily! We are living in the "end times" before Christ's return to earth with power and great glory. What you see is a worldwide "prep" by the evil deep state and evil elite setting up a one NEW WORLD ORDER & great tribulation is coming. Mark of the beast 666 where you can neither buy nor sell anything without the mark. Most likely a micro chip implanted. Spoken of in the bible. Wars and rumors of wars. Nations against nations. WW3 is coming. Jesus even spoke of these days where: "good will be called evil ... and evil will be call good." God may allow us to get back the House and Senate Nov 2022. Hopefully #Trump2024. The current administration is totally evil, marxist and Communist, anti GOD. I believe this is a wake up call to America to return to GOD. Today is like the evil biblical city of Sodom & Gohmorra - which he destroyed b/c of continuous evil. . The answer is JESUS. Believe on Him and trust Him as Lord and Savior. Take care ... be well... stay safe. VOTE! John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #TRUMP2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍😎
We are living in the "end times" before Christ's return to earth with power and great glory. What you see is a worldwide "prep" by the evil deep state and evil elite setting up a one NEW WORLD ORDER & great tribulation is coming. Mark of the beast 666 where you can neither buy nor sell anything without the mark. Most likely a micro chip implanted. Spoken of in the bible. Wars and rumors of wars. Nations against nations. WW3 is coming. Jesus even spoke of these days where: "good will be called evil ... and evil will be call good." God may allow us to get back the House and Senate Nov 2022. Hopefully #Trump2024. The current administration is totally evil, marxist and Communist, anti GOD. I believe this is a wake up call to America to return to GOD. Today is like the evil biblical city of Sodom & Gohmorra - which he destroyed b/c of continuous evil. . The answer is JESUS. Believe on Him and trust Him as Lord and Savior. Take care ... be well... stay safe. VOTE! John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #TRUMP2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍😎
I watched it as a young boy and wondered what it would be like to watch it as an old man. Now I know.
Haha yes and the memories are stiull as good then as they are now when looking back to those days.
This score is so beautiful. It has that beautiful but sad feeling of lost youth, days gone by, and missed opportunity. Friends we grew up with but no longer keep in touch with. Lost loved ones. The disenchantment with adulthood and the corporate world which many can relate to. The speed of the modern world. Time seemed to move so slow up until my mid twenties...like I had all the time in the world. Now days go by at the speed of light.
This episode captures all of those feelings for me and this score is a big part of it. Walking Distance doesn't really have a big twist ending or reveal like a lot of the best TZ episodes but it cuts deep.
There actually is a bit of a twist since he walks with a limp which apparently he didn’t seem to have at the start of the episode- in a way by going back in time he changed his own history-he remembered falling off the carousel but he never remembered exactly why.
Derek Gabrys. Yeah, I can relate to that. I remember watching this with my dad when I was 17. I thought I had all the time in the world. My dad told me life is fleeting but I never really tried to understand what he meant or the melancholy behind Martins sentimental journey. How ironic now that my father is gone, I finally understand Martin’s longing for his youth, lost love and feeling lost in this crazy world.
Yes very deep for sure. WALKING DISTANCE.
beautifully put.
Bernard Herrmann's score for WALKING DISTANCE is indescribably beautiful, both he and Mr. Serling put there best foot forward on this episode.
Yes, I agree. This is a big fan favorite, although personally of the TZ scores Herrmann scored, the most atmospheric was "Little Girl Lost."
I agree 👍🎼🎻
It's hard to imagine this high art being embraced today. It's not that the public wouldn't appreciate it, but the producers would nix it due to the costs of paying the composer, the musicians, and for the studio time. So today we end up with VST orchestras on a laptop and a composer with a 3 day deadline to churn out something palatable. No one is daring to be great.
Totally agree.
"their best feet"
Were it not for the pure joy I can share with my grandchildren, this is the music that would be playing in my head all the time...
Martin Sloan age 36, Vice President in charge of media, successful in most things, but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives- trying to go home again.
And also like all men perhaps they’ll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he’ll look up from what he’s doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past.
And perhaps across his mind they’ll flit a little errant wish- that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry go rounds of his youth and he’ll smile then too because he’ll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really.
Some laughing ghost that would cross a man’s mind.
That are a part of the Twilight Zone.
We all want to go back for one summer afternoon. To be carefree, to enjoy the simple pleasures of childhood. This is one of the most poignant TZ episodes. The care that went into it, from script to cinematography to music, is impressive. It always leaves me wistful. A quality fantasy program is capable of giving something profound and lasting to its audience.
My top favorite.
I remember watching this episode with my father many years ago. And we talked about life but I was too young to understand the melancholy of yearning for ones past. How ironic that now my father has passed away, I can finally understand how Martin really felt in that story. Life truly is fleeting and short once past.
Can anyone imagine any modern 30 minute show on today's television coming up with a score as poignant, haunting and heart-achingly melodious as this????
At the carousel, shortly after the “Martin’s Summer” theme resumes at 10:45. there’s a beautiful dimming of lights to accompany the tilted camera angle shot, combined with the wistful music and the kids gradually exiting the frame. This is superb, effective filmmaking in a moving and memorable episode.
Yes indeed I agree and have observed and noted this too.
Yes; this has always been the high point of the episode for me. The slow, almost "ritualistic" processional of silent kids in the darkness...very stylized...accompanied by Herrmann's stately HANDELIAN/Baroque chord progression, is an uncanny and striking moment, which signals that the childhood fantasy now must end. LR
The beauty of this score, plus Rod Serlings writing, Gig youngs acting, this was a masterpiece.
martin sloan: : )
I should change my name to Martina Sloan. I’m in the same boat as Martin.
The carefree time of childhood with no worry about having to find a job,house,car,having health problems the rat race of being an adult, Oh,I Wish I Was A Kid Again.
By far my favorite Twilight Zone episode!
This is music of reminiscence in dreams. My parents died long ago, but in some dreams they are still alive, and if I awake when the dream is still vivid, I don't immediately remember that I live alone This music recalls that experience.
Kirsten I. Russell I go through the same experience. My father was tragically killed in a car accident many years ago and for a long time I tried not to think about him because it made me too melancholic. But for some reason every time I was flying up at high altitudes, his memories would flood back and I would become very quiet and sad. This was very noticeable to my co-pilot, so I used to become self-conscious about it. Now, once in a while he appears in my dreams like he is still very much alive but much younger looking than as I remember him and we talk sometimes. Even after I wake up, for the first few minutes, I still think he’s still alive. Death is still very hard to deal with because it is so final.
many of herrmann's scores try to articulate this feeling through music. his scores for vertigo and the ghost and mrs. muir are very similar to this, very haunted and nostalgic. he's pretty much my favorite composer ever.
@@violetwinspear4466 are you familiar with Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings?
I think now of my father who died of the effects of cancer on 8/25/21.
@Allie Hamilton: I will NEVER forget hearing Princess Grace’s favorite music “Adagio for Strings” by Barber -- that was played at her funeral. The tears just started streaming uncontrollably down my face. This piece has the same effect but I guess more because this is my favorite.
THIS is the only TZ episode that tugs at my heart .The theme resonates universally .Its about how time passes by so quickly and how sometimes we find ourselves longing to go back to a simpler time when we didn't have a care in the world and our parents , other family members and friends were still alive .Starting at 5:53 is the most beautiful part
I’m at that stage now Linda. It’s hard dealing with this current world and all of the madness going on. -- but really what am I saying -- it has always been going on -- but when I was young I was sheltered from it or maybe we, our parents were just not aware. One of the downfalls of the internet. You find out what is going on in another part of the world in an instant.
So we know all of the horrors.
This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I love this song and the episode walking distance. It reminds me of my childhood in the 1950s when everything seemed so special and wonderful.
@ Brian: Agree. My innocent wonderful childhood with my 3 best friends (sisters) down the block. Sleepovers every weekend, we’d go to the show on weekends, parents picked us up, we’d go home and make cookies, parents let us stay up in the wee hours of the morning, sometimes we’d stay up to watch the sunrise. We’d play monopoly and other board games at night, softball, volley ball, tiger baby stop, on and on . My childhood was magical. I wish I could go back to the late 50s, early 60s --- my parents and grandparents were alive -- yeah -- just let me go back for a little while. This is my favorite Twilight Zone that makes me think about all the fun my friends in the neighborhood and I had. Just let me live it again. To this day I love pink cotton candy. Sorry for rambling.
@@lilybond6485 Me too ... and don't forget the marbles .... clearies .... steelies. My favorite T.Z. episode of all time too! WALKING DISTANCE. I was 3 when this came out. Watch this every year and has same emotionaly charged effects on me always and never, ever, gets old. Rod's masterpoece indeed! Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024
@John Piper: I remember those marbles. I loved those clear marbled -- deep red, pale orange, dark green, light green, pale aqua, most had imperfections in them - like little bubbles. Held on to them for the longest time. They were at my parents house - the shrine they kept of my childhood bedroom - up until my father passed and then my brother got rid of everything and sold their home. I’m going to have to ask him if he kept the marbles. I almost don’t want to know if he tossed them. He’s not a keeper of things. I lived 1,200 miles away at the time and he saved only a few of my childhood “treasures”. Well -- I guess saving my original 1st edition Barbies in mint condition, and all of my Beatles records and loot was pretty good. 😉
@@lilybond6485 How about those paper caps with gunpowder in a red, white and blue box
? Putting strips on the side walk and using a rock pounding them to make them ignite. Or the little color plastic squirt guns and water ballons in the summer time. "Sun showers" Those small simple kight wooden planes you assemled to fly. Or Bazooka Bubble gum. The real Superman George Reeves and Louis lane. Addams Family. Shoe lace licorice. The Lone Ranger! And yes the playground. All of the merry-go-round scenes move me deeply in "Walking Distance." I am not too far from Rod Serliing's childhood home. I remember the blizzard of 1966 when I was 10. Christmas's were happy and the stores were lighted with very colorful bulbs - the big ones .... Santas everywhere. You could trust your neighbors most of the time. We walked to school etc. This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. "YEAH .... THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE" Men were men ... ladies were ladies ... boys and girls were just that. How about the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school with hand on your heart. Police - we used to get a short motorcyle ride from the police when I was about 6 in 1963. TAKE CARE ... SEMPER FI #USMC #TRUMP2024
well, what can we say...genius personified...in Mr. Bernard Herrmann : )
This iconic music fit the episode well. I can't hear the music without replaying the beautiful episode in my mind.
Yes. One of Herrmann's best for television....
Same here.
I don’t know a lot about music, or Bernard Herrmann but I do know that he’s written some of the most beautiful movie music scores I’ve ever heard. Particularly Journey to the Center of the Earth.
"Martin Sloan , advertising executive age 36 ..."
Gig Young was 46 when he played that role, and looked it.
Rod Serling wrote this after taking a trip back to his hometown of Binghamton , NY ..
The music to "Walking Distance", "Twilight Zone" is absolutely beautiful! It captured my heart the first time I ever heard it!
This beautifully written and produced episode deeply evokes the longing people have for loved ones and past experiences long gone. It's especially poignant in these troubled times and extreme individualism.
Tears and ultimately thankfulness, for my long ago summer. Thank you.
Really, this makes me cry every time. I really miss my childhood
I would like to die in my sleep and wake up back in my childhood with my parents, grandparents, all of my friends in my wonderful middle class neighborhood and give up all of my current assets, possessions which have always been very important to me. I’d give it all up in an instant -- to go back.
Bernard Herrmann’s soundtrack leaves me in awe. I also love his Concerto Macabre from the movie “Hangover Square”.
"But you're BOTH here! ... How can YOU be here?"
YEAH - THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE." Masterpiece of Serlings and Bernard Herrmann!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤
Remember any? Memories early 60s. I was 3 in 1959. How about those paper caps with gunpowder in a red, white and blue box? Putting strips on the side walk and using a rock pounding them to make them ignite. Or the little color plastic squirt guns and water ballons in the summer time. "Sun showers" Those small simple light wooden planes you assemled to fly. Or Bazooka Bubble gum. The real Superman George Reeves and Louis lane. Addams Family. Shoe lace licorice. The Lone Ranger!
And yes the playground. All of the merry-go-round scenes move me deeply in "Walking Distance." I am not too far from Rod Serliing's childhood home.
USAF base Propeller B-17 bombers flying overhead.
I remember the blizzard of 1966 when I was 10. Christmas's were happy and the stores were lighted with very colorful bulbs - the big ones .... Santas everywhere. You could trust your neighbors most of the time. If you are reading this far watch the Twilight Zone episode "Night of the Meek." Another masterpiece for Christmas!
We walked to school etc. This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. "YEAH .... THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE"
Men were men ... ladies were ladies ... boys and girls were just that. How about the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school with hand on your heart. Respect for the USA flag. American pride.
Police - we used to get a short motorcyle ride from the police when I was about 6 in 1963. TAKE CARE ... SEMPER FI #USMC #TRUMP2024 Anti Marxism! Anti Communisim! PRO AMERICA! PRO CONSTITUTION!
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I love the TZ & Walking Distance is one of my favorites & the music is just heaven. Hopefully when we go to the next life heaven will be like this, back to when you were a kid playing & hanging out with your friends, that’s how I see heaven, what heaven is & means to you. GOD Bless & stay safe Merry Christmas & Happy New Year💯✝️🙏🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It will be .... Jesus says he shall wipe all tears from their eyes..... eyes have not seen nor ears heard the things that GOD has prepared for those that love Him.
@amzdaniel858 - It will be .... Jesus says he shall wipe all tears from their eyes..... eyes have not seen nor ears heard the things that GOD has prepared for those that love Him.
Thanks for sharing this! This IS definitively my all time favorite episode "WALKING DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and amazing job as well - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have been looking for the portion starting at 4:00 for a long time. It plays as late as Season 5 and I never realised it premiered so early in the series. It is so atmospheric.
I love the walking distance suite! Very beautiful, very emotional. 😍🤩😢❤️🌟
The strings at 14:46 are nothing short of angelic. Each pass of the strings is deliberate and drawn out for effect. it is a wonderful way to end this piece and it gives me a feeling I cannot describe in words
"Good bye, son."/"Good bye, Pop."
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Exactly! That's the part I always remember.
I remember when Gig Young so wistfully jumped onto the carousel. It’s ingrained in my brain with this music.
Imagine, this was for a TV show! Remember any TV music lately?
a more sophisticated musical era
while i can't say much has been as good as herman's there is still great stuff being written. season 5 of doctor who from Murray Gold, bits of the Mandalorian by Ludwig Goranson etc.
You can tell Bernard Herrmann writes his music with a passion that is rare.
I thought the score for Ozark's (first season, particularly) was very good. Game of Thrones had a compelling score too (particularly its earlier seasons), along with Chernobyl, The Queen's Gambit and The Mandalorian.
Not only was it for a TV show, it was for a TV show from the 60s, with a dollar store budget, even for its time.
My favorite episode of the TZ and this is a stunning arrangement!
My favorite too.
Same.
Beautiful , beautiful scores of music so special they speak a language of sound that express emotion like words never can. Bernard Herman, very rare talented man . The scores he wrote are so blending. Scores from “Walking Distance” can so easily be edited with most of all of his pieces leaving some music editor with an unlimited field for creativity.
The man was a genius.
Without a doubt.
The part around 3:18 makes me cry
This is going to sound pretentious but when I think about the 1950s through the early 60s, BH is one of the people that defines this time period, for me.
11:35 "That's all... I wanted to tell you..."
".....God help me."
Todo lo que rodeó a Serling fue fantástico y hermoso a la vez. Las actuaciones, las historias, la música. Cada parte de TTZ es una obra de arte en sí misma. Irrepetible creación sin tiempo.
Everything around Serling was fantastic and beautiful at the same time. The performances, the stories, the music. Every part of TTZ is a work of art in itself. Unrepeatable timeless creation.
This score was written a number of weeks before I was born but I did see the episode as a youngster and the music is what got to me ...sad and heavy with the pain of memory and yet also somehow uplifting. Bernard Herrmann was a genuis and was able to match the tone and mood of the episode perfectly. I also think that it resonated deeply within him as I'm sure he sometimes felt that he wished he had done things differently over the course of his life.
As to Serling's work and Gig Young's acting..."superb" is probably not a good enough word to reflect how deeply respectful I am of it. I saw the episode a few times over the years but the viewing that really hit me was one where I watched the episode late at night a couple of weeks after my mother's passing...I finally understood deep within me what Serling was getting at a much better level of understanding than I ever had before. The scene where Gig Young meets his long deceased parents at the front door of his childhood home is especially poignant. It brought me to tears... the direction...using the screen door to create an ethereal and tenuous barrier between parents and grown-up child...just wonderful. Please tell me of any other tv show at the time that could come close to this brilliance. Our world lost a great deal with the passing of Bernard "Benny" Herrmann and Rod Serling. Sadly I don't think we will ever see this quality of work on television ever again. Vale Benny, Vale Rod...you taught me so much about life in thirty minutes of a black and white teleplay. God bless you both.
Very nice essay. Thank you! Rod Serling would have been deeply touched if he were alive today to read it. Perhaps you can tweet it...or I can on my Twitter site if you want...while linking my Walking Distance rundown. i.postimg.cc/c46YM1fP/Tripsadelica-comment-1orange.jpg .... twitter.com/ZeffanieandBill ....
Agree! This IS definitively my all time favorite episode "WALKING DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and amazing job as well - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
How lucky T-Zone music fans are to have the isolated scores from most episodes in the Blu-ray and even the prior DVD editions-and with respectably good sound quality. If only the same were so with Outer Limits and Stoney Burke..
Beautiful score for an interesting television production.
0:33-0:46 is always the part I go back to. Such a perfect blend of melancholic and whimsical nostalgia.
Sentimental Musical score.....sweet, precious the feeling of touching close and closer to your past to Mom and Dad to merry go rounds, cotton candy ....a warm feeling of their love...and left with a deeper longing for ....what we had THEN 🙂🙏🕊✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
@Stephanie Alexander - This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍✝✝✝
I remember watching this haunting episode, and remembering how beautifully sad the music was. I'm amazed now to find not only the clean audio of the soundtrack, but the sheet music as well! And seeing the comments here, I'm glad I'm not alone among the viewers of "Walking Distance" in thinking this was one of the best and most beautiful soundtracks from the "Twilight Zone". It reminds me somewhat of Sibelius' symphonic poem "Swan of Tuonella", another haunting piece with similar orchestration, and written in the same key of A minor. Thank you for posting this!
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for posting this music. While watching the Twilight Zone episode, "Walking DIstance", I was so moved and impressed by the music I Googled to hopefully learn more about the music, only to be grateful to find the music and information and to learn the music was original to the very Twilight Episode episode. How utterly wonderful is the music and the Twilight Zone "Walking Distance" story itself - along with the fabulous acting talent in the story, including Academy Award winners Gig Young and Ron Howard.
i.postimg.cc/hPRfGhpQ/IMG.jpg Thanks for your comments of appreciation.
@James Daniel: I will always remember Gig Young by this episode of The Twilight Zone. Alcoholism is a very serious illness. You probably know that. It can change a person to something completely different and obviously destroy one’s life.
Herrmann wrote original scores for 7 twilight zone episodes..out of these 7 scores the music ended up in several other episodes as well as other TV shows of the day
First time I saw this episode on TV on one of those Twilight Zone Marathon, I was blown away by this musical score. It really was more than half the equation of this episode. The storyline was interesting enough but this musical score was fantastic and very moving. It is reminiscent of the theme musical score for the movie The Ghost and Mrs Muir.
For me, the soundtrack is at least half of the movie or show. -- if not more.
@@lilybond6485 Yes that is true. Music really enhances and conveys the mood and feelings the writer/director wants the audience to feel. It transcends the limitation of our language.
774892: and Bernard Herrmann is my Number # 1 for soundtrack.
"Is it so bad where you're from? Answer: "Yes Pop, it pretty much sucks."
Fine score indeed.This my #1episode.
Mine too.
His music accomplishes the otherwise impossible
Love it so much 10/10
Gorgeous, evocative and, of course, brilliant,
10:45 does it for me..like one beautiful never ending crescendo..
What you're hearing is what's called in music theory a Circle of Fifths. It's a very natural progression to one's ear. Essentially, it's a relationship between notes based on both acoustical and mathematical calculi (the former can be heard, the latter is a bit more complicated to explain).
A famous example often taught in music theory classes is Dido's Lament, from Dido and Aeneas, the opera by British composer Henry Purcell. Go about a minute in here: ruclips.net/video/ihxX-s5mu0M/видео.html. You can certainly find theoretical explanations by Googling the term "Circle of Fifths."
Bernard Hermann, one of film's most iconic composers, uses it beautifully here (if you watch the scene where it's employed). It's pretty remarkable what he was able to do with the limited resources available to him (and "The Twilight Zone" in general), but with a small string section and a harp (an instrument he loved), he creates one of the best scores in 'the program's history.
Listen at 2:37..the high harmonic strings countered with soothing low basses takes me into the netherworld..I really love the drugstore and memories cues
@@maimzini That's not a circle of fifths. It's a descending chromatic ground bass/passacaglia.
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Yeah, that's not at all a circle of fifths, lmao. You talk all big and intelligent, but it's completely false.
Well, for what it’s worth Bruce I appreciate your interesting comment.
Music sounds the way emotions feel.
Very true! Great way to put it! Walking Distance....
@@JohnPiperBoots 🙂
Beautiful score. I like how the music, as Herrmann would say, can stand on its own. At complete odds with the contemporary aesthetic that underscores should not really be heard/distracting. I find the music of this episode captivating for the exact reason that it is noticeable. You hear it and go "what is this music telling me?" It adds and speeds up the main character's developmental arc to the point where the episode is fabulistic, which I like. Artistic works should help us learn things about ourselves and give us a chance to reflect on the way we live our lives.
The Elegy, just astonishing.
Everyone's picking out pretty much the same favorite section but for me, it's the section of the score called "The Park" at starting 3:58. The delicate melody and use of string harmonics accompanied by the harp is just perfect.
I like the harp sound starting at 5:53
I like "The Drugstore" 0:47 all the way through "Memories" such mysteriousness
This episode was a masterpiece. Perfect casting, storyline and music. I believe it touched all viewers because of a longing to "go back." But when Martin's father said, " Try looking ahead, " we got a profound message.
By the way, does anyone know why Serling often used the name "Sloan?"
No, but we can guess why Serling used the third name in this list:
Track shot closer on Martin as he calls off the names of the houses.
MARTIN:
Van Buren. Wilcox. (Then looking across the street) Over there Dr. Bradbury. Mulroony.
@Thomas Vasiloff: I remember seeing this as a pre-adolescent - the original showing. I remember thinking “How sad. It must be horrible to be that old and longing for your wonderful childhood -- but that would never be me” -- and now it IS me. I never thought I ever would be watching this video and feeling just like Martin Sloan -- but I am and thinking right back to the moment I thought that.
@@lilybond6485 This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@John Piper: I completely agree with your comment -- but I don’t think that we will ever go or get back to what the USA once was. It feels like it is too late. By the time 2024 is here -- the Biden administration will have done way too much damage and change to ever go back. People pouring into the country -- over one and a half million that we have no idea who they are, where they are, or where they are from and some that have been caught already are known terrorists. High ranking military men and former military men have stated during an interview that it we are going to have another attack like 911 and it will be bigger and worse than that. No - I am sad to think that former America is gone forever and things are going to get a lot worse. Stay safe. It makes me very sad.
@@lilybond6485 Looks like my very long message got deleted. 😱 We will win back the House and Senate and Trump will be President again! Take care be safe ... VOTE! Ultra RED Wave is coming! Semper Fi #USMC 👍👍👍👍👍👍✝
Brilliant.
Herrmann made absolute magic with manuscript paper
Gênio ..
Cleverly filmed episode, including shots of the cigarette vending machine mirror transitioning to the drug store soda fountain mirror...then later the carousel resuming its counterclockwise motion transitioning to the clockwise motion of the juke box turntable. Most carousels turned counterclockwise to allow the rider to reach out to grab the brass ring for a free ride, but due to insurance only some still employ the game today.The music first evoking the carousel is “Artists’ Life”, a waltz by Strauss, not actually on a calliope but on a Wurlitzer 165 band organ.
I enjoyed your comment.
@@lilybond6485 Thank you! This definitely ranked as one of the best episodes in the series. I’ve worked at many public service jobs as a tour guide, sales associate,etc. but because of my interest in carousels I was an employee at 5 different ones including the huge antique wood 1908 carousel in Central Park,NYC.
When you look at the art, music and history of carousels and how they’re such an oasis and subjective experience for each person, you’ll really come to appreciate the uniqueness of carousels.
Anthony Simpson anygoround: That 1908 carousel in Central Park must have been a beautiful sight to see. I can think back to my childhood in New Orleans riding on the carousel at the lakefront (Lake Pontchartrain) in the sweltering heat of summer. The breeze on my face and hair. I can clearly see my mother standing there holding my cotton candy. It was so hot and humid -- that when the ride ended - my cotton candy was literally melting small red droplets -- but it tasted even more delicious that way.
@@lilybond6485 That’s a great memory about the cotton candy. The manager Sal Napolitano at Central Park Carousel was also the concessionaire, and sometimes in later years had to work with others who were the concessionaire, but was in charge most of the time and remained on-site for over 40 yrs mostly due to his knowledge of the carousel’s mechanism, etc. He also was enterprising in a vast choice of souvenirs and refreshments to be put nearby including a cotton candy machine on a cart unit which he built most likely with his dad who had been a carpenter. I did lots of duties at the carousel but didn’t get too involved with the treats or souvenirs, but my girl friend at the time, now my spouse, did an illustration which was used on some of the souvenirs. Anyway, your story reminded me … I remember the cotton candy (spun sugar) was in traditional pink or turquoise blue, colors normally so sweet and not found in nature! Anyway, your story was certainly sweet.🎪🎠
@@lilybond6485 Hey, I just realized that your name Lily has sort of an unusual connection -or I should say “bond” with carousels! The Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945 show “Carousel” which initially inspired me to be interested in the rides and working at them, was based on Hungarian Ferenc Molnar’s 1921 dramatic fantasy play “Liliom” which when translated means “Lily”! The main character is a roughneck of an antihero but the flower’s name is given to him as sort of an ironic nickname, plus there are several symbolic references to flowers and nature elements throughout the play itself. You may already be familiar at least with “Carousel” which certainly had some of the most beautiful music ever written.🎪🎠
Beautiful soundtrack
Derek ... you have captured the essence of this score perfectly.
me encanta ...
Love this!
Fantastic!
I hope you can upload more twilight zone suites from the show, I really like them! ☺😃🌟💖
I have several already on my site such as:
ruclips.net/video/V2iPwWvFcmU/видео.html [Little Girl Lost]
ruclips.net/video/TPn0i44egCc/видео.html [Living Doll]
ruclips.net/video/7x24ifOnmt4/видео.html
...but mostly I have a series of videos on indivdual cues from the various TZ episodes...
Darkly beautiful score, as always, by Herrmann. But very typical of him. This is very similar to his music for Jane Eyre (1944) and Fahrenheit 451 (the finale of that film particularly). High-pitched violins and mournful cellos, plus lots of harp -- signature Herrmann.
This was a high-caliber or high drawer episode so it deserved extra attention, so not a typical approach for Herrmann, altho he did his best for most of his projects since he had excellent dramatic instincts!
I hear strings, harp and Celeste and that's it
I love this music so much and never knew what it's called
Find your own merrygorounds.
Nice!
I think Shirley Walker took inspiration from the twilight zone scores when composing Batman the animated series.
11:44-12:08....
**-12:30
What you're hearing is what's called in music theory a Circle of Fifths. It's a very natural progression to one's ear. Essentially, it's a relationship between notes based on both acoustical and mathematical calculi (the former can be heard, the latter is a bit more complicated to explain).
A famous example often taught in music theory classes is Dido's Lament, from Dido and Aeneas, the opera by British composer Henry Purcell. Go about a minute in here: ruclips.net/video/ihxX-s5mu0M/видео.html. You can certainly find theoretical explanations by Googling the term "Circle of Fifths."
Bernard Hermann, one of film's most iconic composers, uses it beautifully here (if you watch the scene where it's employed). It's pretty remarkable what he was able to do with the limited resources available to him (and "The Twilight Zone" in general), but with a small string section and a harp (an instrument he loved), he creates one of the best scores in 'the program's history.
Which midi program did he use and what make is his computer? And what are all those squiggly lines on that paper?
Martin's father was wrong. There aren't band concerts & cotton candy anymore. The world isn't that kind of place anymore, the young generation seems to revel in moral debauchery. This kind of innocence doesn't have a place here anymore. This episode makes me cry every time I see it. Because Martin grieves for the 1930s when he's in the (almost) 1960s. And because I'd rather be in the 1960s than the 2020s. Who plays marbles on the sidewalk anymore? Who strolls around the park wearing dresses & bonnets? I miss a way of life that I never knew. Sigh...
What do you want!?
@Allie Hamilton-Calhoun - This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 👍👍👍👍👍👍
This IS definitively my all time favorite T.Z. episode "WALKNG DISTANCE." I watch it several times a year and every year. Never grows old. I think this was Rod Serlings favorite too. The music score composers did and AMAZING job - speaks deeply to the heart! We are all human. Sometimes I wish it was a one hour episode. Amazing what Rod did in just 30 minutes! I definitely relate to what you said. Also, we need to get our country back on track! Pro America! Family values! Patriotism. Respect for police. I am Anti marxism. I am Anti communisim. I am Anti "woke" and "cancel culture" etc. Eternal life thru faith and trust in Jesus. In heaven I think we will be at the age we were happiest. John 3:16,17 Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024
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Speaking of Outer Limits, the opening music in the carousel scene is exactly the same as that used in the carousel scene in Walking Distance”-although here it runs almost full length. Indeed, it sounds so much like Strauss. Would anyone know the title, the composer and who may have recorded this version?
@greg1030 - What outer Limits episode and season are you referring to that played this carousel music score?
@@JohnPiperBoots "Second Chance" in Season 1
😥 1:30
Very 451ish in some parts. And that's cool.
Fahrenheit 451? I surmise ...
@@enriquesanchez2001 Lol , , , IV-V-I ish perhaps
Fahrenheit 451 - a 1966 film directed by François Truffaut based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury. Music by Bernard Herrmann. There is definitely a “sound” of BH scores and that brings a smile to his fans. You can hear it from his borrowers and imitators also. The highly stylized TV streaming show “Ratched” is a recent example.
Its the orchestration..this is strings, harps, celeste..451 is strings, harp, Celeste, vibraphone, glocks
is stansfield's mount everest with robert landsing soundtrack available ?
On 3.45, in cello part there are clear a minor - e major(tonic-dominant) chords, but he wrote the second chord as Fb major(Fb, Cb,Ab). Whyyyy???=)
you must have some amazing ear and knowledge of music. Kudos.
Who knows. There's so many little things that affect the decisions a composer makes when notating. In the context of the rest of the parts, the rest of the piece... it just made more sense for him to notate it like that.
There's no key signature, but let's say, hypothetically, he's thinking in Eb minor... There's a diatonic Ab and a Cb. So it would be way easier to read if he puts a flat on F as well. Imagine if he put a flat on A and C but put a natural on Eb... it'd be much more confusing.
But, again, who knows what his real reason was...
Thank you for posting the original. Not that badly interpreted crap by that hack Joel McNeely.
10:45
Where did you get the score?
I personally had it xeroxed back in 1989 when the CBS Papers at UCLA were first available. After that year, UCLA changed their policy not to allow photocopying....
@@FilmScoreRundowns... Thank you!!
ruclips.net/video/xkyzlfAfVEM/видео.html Cue I "Intro" new video...
YEAH - THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE." Masterpiece of Serlings and Bernard Herrmann!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤
Remember any? Memories early 60s. I was 3 in 1959. How about those paper caps with gunpowder in a red, white and blue box? Putting strips on the side walk and using a rock pounding them to make them ignite. Or the little color plastic squirt guns and water ballons in the summer time. "Sun showers" Those small simple light wooden planes you assemled to fly. Or Bazooka Bubble gum. The real Superman George Reeves and Louis lane. Addams Family. Shoe lace licorice. The Lone Ranger!
And yes the playground. All of the merry-go-round scenes move me deeply in "Walking Distance." I am not too far from Rod Serliing's childhood home.
USAF base Propeller B-17 bombers flying overhead.
I remember the blizzard of 1966 when I was 10. Christmas's were happy and the stores were lighted with very colorful bulbs - the big ones .... Santas everywhere. You could trust your neighbors most of the time. If you are reading this far watch the Twilight Zone episode "Night of the Meek." Another masterpiece for Christmas!
We walked to school etc. This of course is just the tip of the iceberg. "YEAH .... THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE"
Men were men ... ladies were ladies ... boys and girls were just that. How about the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school with hand on your heart. Respect for the USA flag. American pride.
Police - we used to get a short motorcyle ride from the police when I was about 6 in 1963. TAKE CARE ... SEMPER FI #USMC #TRUMP2024 Anti Marxism! Anti Communisim! PRO AMERICA! PRO CONSTITUTION!
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@John Piper: In all seriousness - your comment made me tear up. I remember all of those things. I was fortunate to grow up in a middle class neighborhood where all of the parents looked out for all of the kids. - and all good kids I must say. I loved those cap guns -- it was like a roll of a red paper strip with little darker circles of what I assume was gun powder. Playing cowboys and Indians in our huge fenced in
back yard with lots of trees. When we get tired of playing cowboys and Indians - we’d start climbing the trees -- and also in the sweltering heat of the south, one of our neighbors put in a swimming pool. I remember diving into that pale blue green water when the temperature outside was so incredibly hot. It was to me the greatest feeling in the world. I was a tomboy. Drove my brother nuts trying to hang out with him and his friends. We’d end up playing games where they would tie me to a chair or a tree and then they would disappear. I fell for it every time. 😂
@@lilybond6485 Hi Lily 🙂Yes those trees we used to climb them too and play "Tarzan". Yes cowboys and Indian here too. LOL. My oldest sister used to do cart wheels and the hool-a-hoops. Remember those roller skates with the mechanical metal in front toe you cranked with a key I think to tighten. My older brother and PLayed on the side walk with our toy pedal car and tractor. YES .... THAT IS WALKING DISTANCE. I remeber my brother and I watching popeye - eating spinach to make us super strong. LOL Also the times we imitated George Reeves Superman an attempted to jump out the second floor window with sheets to float us down - not so fast - ouch. We were okay. But did not do again. I was Johnny Angel to my mother that song from 1960 Shelley Fabres - my oldest sister always called me that too. Now they are both gone. My oldest sister passed one year ago. Memories now past but alive in our hearts. YES THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE. The good news I never left my hometown. Memories everywhere. We will get our country back! The demigod Biden (with his speech last night) is dividing this country in half using our own citizens to turn against us. WE patriots "are the enemy of the STATE) Communism! Vote in 2024 if Trump runs I think he will. Take care my fellow playmate of "Homewood" Keep your eyes on GOD. He is in control. But we law abiding patriots with GOD's guidence will prevail over evil, lies, and so on. Be sure to be plugged into Newsmax (FREE) Sean Hannity, Dr Sebastian Gorka, attorney Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, etc. Stay away from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc fake news and propaganda. Be well stay safe. TRUTH IS OUR REAL DEFENSE. Walking Distance should be aired every Christmas like It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Scrooge etc. ETERNAL CLASSIC to the deepest depths of the human heart. Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 🙂👍👍👍👍✝✝✝
@Lily Bond - Hi Lily 🙂Yes those trees we used to climb them too and play "Tarzan". Yes cowboys and Indian here too. LOL. My oldest sister used to do cart wheels and the hool-a-hoops. Remember those roller skates with the mechanical metal in front toe you cranked with a key I think to tighten. My older brother and PLayed on the side walk with our toy pedal car and tractor. YES .... THAT IS WALKING DISTANCE. I remeber my brother and I watching popeye - eating spinach to make us super strong. LOL Also the times we imitated George Reeves Superman an attempted to jump out the second floor window with sheets to float us down - not so fast - ouch. We were okay. But did not do again. I was Johnny Angel to my mother that song from 1960 Shelley Fabres - my oldest sister always called me that too. Now they are both gone. My oldest sister passed one year ago. Memories now past but alive in our hearts. YES THAT'S WALKING DISTANCE. The good news I never left my hometown. Memories everywhere. We will get our country back! The demigod Biden (with his speech last night) is dividing this country in half using our own citizens to turn against us. WE patriots "are the enemy of the STATE) Communism! Vote in 2024 if Trump runs I think he will. Take care my fellow playmate of "Homewood" Keep your eyes on GOD. He is in control. But we law abiding patriots with GOD's guidence will prevail over evil, lies, and so on. Be sure to be plugged into Newsmax (FREE) Sean Hannity, Dr Sebastian Gorka, attorney Mark Levin, Dennis Prager, etc. Stay away from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc fake news and propaganda. Be well stay safe. TRUTH IS OUR REAL DEFENSE. Walking Distance should be aired every Christmas like It's A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, Scrooge etc. ETERNAL CLASSIC to the deepest depths of the human heart. Semper Fi #USMC #Trump2024 🙂👍👍👍👍✝✝✝
@John Piper: Did you live in my neighborhood ? 😂 We did everything you mentioned. Exactly the same. forgot about those steel skates. Played Tarzan - again - up in the trees. One of the parents built a wooden playhouse -- up in their tree. We thought it was so great - having that tree house to escape to. I - am so grateful that I grew up before computers, internet, cell phones, technology, There were 3 channels on TV that signed off around midnight I believe,mwith the American flag waving and the Star Spangled Banner playing. I’m taking a serious walk down memory lane here. Funny you should mention Shelley Fabares. She is a distant cousin of mine. Yes. The next election can’t get here fast enough. That Biden speech last night was appalling. Biggest liar and evil man. In my opinion.
@@lilybond6485 Hi Lily 🙂I do not think we were neighbors, although the many similar memories would make you think so. If you lived in the city where Griffiss Air Force was, or one of the playgrounds called "Pinti field", or elementart school "Hatvey E. Alter" then absolutely. LOL I think the things we mentioned were very common nation-wide.
Yes we had a tree fort in the trees behind the apartments. I remember the tv station identification signing off - old glory flag flapping proudly on screen and national anthem audio PROUDLY played. Indeed. Real pride to be American.
WOW! Thankyou for mentioning your distant cousin Shelley Fabares - small world after all. Since her heart touchjng song came out in 1961, my dear late mother and now late oldest sister always called me "Johnny Angel" after Shelley's beautiful song! So happy to express this, if not directly to Shelley but thru the bloodline - you. Hahah. Thanks for sharing this. 😇😇😇
Yes, the Biden speech was a display of a Soviet Stalinistic Projection on we the people: (Republicans, Conservatives, MAGA Patriots). We will overturn the House and Senate in Nov. Trump was in PA rally Saturday on NewsMax - register free on smart tv or your cell phone. Also get on Trump's social media site called truthsocial it is free!
WALKING DISTANCE - Interesting facts!!!! Jodi Serling said in a 2019 interview with SyFy Wire that "Walking Distance" was her father's favorite episode of the show because it was "a very personal story for him" and there were "pieces of him in it". Serling stated it was her favorite episode as well due to her father's connection to it, further saying: "My father every summer would take a ride from our place on Cayuga Lake, which is in Ithaca, and he would ride an hour to Binghamton, New York, and revisit his hometown. It was like his private journey of seeing his old house. It's still there on Bennett Ave., going on the merry-go-round - which isn't the same merry-go-round - and walking the streets as he did when he played marbles with his friends. That episode is so nostalgic [for me] because it's so much about my dad, I can't help but see him."[3]
I feel the same for sure and glad Jodi shared this!
Take care .....be well... stay informed ... do your part #House2022 #Senate2022 #Trump2024 we PATRIOTS fight to win! Semper Fi #USMC 👍👍👍👍👍😎
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