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  The Mirror (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The Mirror” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
A Fidel Castro lookalike played by Falk celebrates the victory of the “people’s revolution” led by himself and his three life-long confidantes.
In the end, he indeed sees that the true enemy in the mirror is himself.
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 Television - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image.
Television usage in the United States skyrocketed after World War II with the lifting of the manufacturing freeze, war-related technological advances, the gradual expansion of the television networks westward, the drop in set prices caused by mass production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable income.
Paralleling television's growing primacy in family life and society, an increasingly vocal chorus of legislators, scientists and parents are raising objections to the uncritical acceptance of the medium.
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 Television - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A semi-mechanical analogue television system was first demonstrated in London in February 1924 by John Logie Baird with an image of Felix the Cat and a moving picture by Baird on October 30, 1925.
The earliest television sets were radios with the addition of a television device consisting of a neon tube with a mechanically spinning disk (the Nipkow disk, invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow) that produced a red postage-stamp size image.
Television in its original and still most popular form involves sending images and sound over radio waves in the VHF and UHF bands, which are received by a receiver (a television set).
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 Rose (Doctor Who) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the first episode of the 2005 series and was the first new television episode of Doctor Who to be produced since the American-made Doctor Who television movie in 1996.
Officially, the BBC considers this episode to be "Series 1, Episode 1" as the network has chosen to restart the numbering of the programme from scratch.
The dubbed version of the episode Rose was first broadcast in French on the French network France 4 on 5 November 2005 and on Canadian speciality science fiction channel Ztélé on 3 January 2006.
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 Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A mechanically-scanned analogue television system was first demonstrated in London in February 1924 by John Logie Baird with an image of Felix the Cat and a moving picture by Baird on October 30, 1925.
Television antenna on a rooftop The first long distance public Television broadcast was from Washington, DC to New York City and occurred on April 7, 1927.
As a result, up until at least the mid-1970s, Television stations would air announcements reminding viewers to unplug their sets before going to bed for the night, since the heat build-up in the back of the set was a considerable fire hazard.
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 Television - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Rosing disappeared during the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, but Zworykin later went to work for RCA to build a purely electronic television, the design of which was eventually found to violate patents by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
Nigeria was one of the first countries in Africa to introduce television, in 1959, followed by Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) in 1961, while Zanzibar was the first in Africa to introduce colour television, in 1983.
A 2/23/2002 article in Scientific American suggested that compulsive television watching was no different from any other addiction, a finding backed up by reports of withdrawal symptoms among families forced by circumstance to cease watching.
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 Crafts : Other : Clay Ribbon Rose Mirror : Home & Garden Television
Set aside one of the two hand mirror shaped pieces from step 1; it will be the back of the mirror.
To assemble the mirror base before decorating, take the front of the mirror (still foil side down on a piece of wax paper) and squeeze a small amount of liquid clay onto the surface facing up.
When the clay is flat on the back of the mirror, gently press around the edge of the oval to sandwich the mirror onto the front piece.
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 A Face in the Mirror
A Face in the mirror is a short, supernatural horror/thriller film in production this spring 2005.
It is told that if you look into a mirror with the lights off and the room completely fl, and then say "Bloody Mary" thirteen times, a woman will appear and attack, killing the person, scratching their eyes out, driving the person mad, or pulling them into the mirror with her.
They prevent her from leaving the bathroom, and the camera cuts to the rest of the partygoers downstairs, who hear a crash of breaking glass and a scream.
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 Australian Television: Mirror, Mirror: episode guide
And as if that's not enough an antique mirror provides a gateway to the past and he is introduced to the De Lutrelle family, who are living on the goldfields in 1867.
When the mirror declares that Lily is not the fairest of them all, Lily decides to settle for smartest and wealthiest.
Ned puts his mirror in a bank vault in the nineteenth century; Lily aligns hers in the twentieth… and then pops through to grab the loot.
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 Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Color television became available in the U.S. on December 30 of 1953, backed by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) network.
The government approved the color broadcast system proposed by CBS, but when RCA came up with a subcarrier system that made it possible to view color broadcasts in fl and white on unmodified old fl and white TV sets, CBS dropped their own proposal and used the new one (see NTSC).
Because of the economic and politic troubles ocurred between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s, television networks in some countries of this region had a development more irregular than the North American and European networks.
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 Open Directory - Arts:Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
DVD has revolutionized the field of home video, bringing television shows and special features to the mass market, and preserving programs that are no longer on the air at a higher quality level than is possible with most home video recorders.
Television news is often a major undertaking involving hundreds of people.
Sites with content focused on sales of satellite television dishes, receivers, and systems, as well as related parts, hardware, software, accessories, and/or services, including repair, installation and programming or reprogramming, should be submitted to Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Digital_Satellite.
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 The Broken Mirror
In an episode of "The Twilight Zone," a young woman, her face totally obscured by bandages, is in a hospital full of caring, sympathetic doctors and nurses.
In rapid succession, we see her horror at her reflection in the mirror, hear her anguished cry that the procedure has failed and see the faces of the staff (which have been artfully hidden from view till now), all of whom look to us like horrible monsters.
Her recently published book, "The Broken Mirror," provides a wealth of information for the mental health professional as well as for others interested in learning more about this disorder.
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 Television Without Pity The Girl Who Cries When She Looks In The Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
She says that she wants to be an inspiration to others, but that her ultimate goal to be the last one standing, and to do that, you have to survive.
Kelle tells Toccara that she cries every time she looks at herself in the mirror, and Toccara says that back in the day (well, earlier this week in real time, I guess) a person couldn't get Kelle's ass out of the mirror, so often would she primp and preen.
Toccara tells Kelle to leave the mirror and come to her room for a talk.
www.televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=126&story=7030&page=5&sort=&limit=   (649 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bloody Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Some specify that the mirror must be illuminated by a single candle; in others, there must be a candle on each side.
She may merely peer malevolently out through the mirror, or she may drag one of the girls back through it to live with her.
It was common practice to cover mirrors in a house where a death had occurred until the body was taken for burial.
www.snopes.com /horrors/ghosts/bloodymary.asp   (1343 words)

  
 The best television show EPISODE ever... (SPOILERS FOR SLOW PEOPLE AND EUROPEANS) - Movie Discussion Forum & Message ...
Uhm, I love the ER episode when Carter gets to run the show when they were under quarantine or whatever.
My favorite episodes are 2.1, the one in season 2 where George dies and the one in season 3 where Jack shoots Chapelle.
Favorite episode of Seinfeld is the one with the wallet (title escapes me right now), Joe Mayo, the fur coat (and the 8-ball), the recliner, the man purse and Newman's afair.
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 Action TV Online - The Man In The Mirror episode guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Man In The Mirror is by Lindsay Hardy, who has written for BBC Television such past successes as A Mask For Alexis, Walk A Crooked Mile, and The Sleeper.
Episodes were originally transmitted 8:15pm to 8:40pm on BBC 2.
The programme was successfully exported but never commercially released, which will be the lasting downside to BBC Television's prolific thriller output throughout the 1960s.
www.action-tv.org.uk /guides/maninmirror.htm   (662 words)

  
 Decorating : Mirrors : Reverse-Painted Mirror : Home & Garden Television
Make a custom mirror by removing some of it and placing a photograph facing out from the back.
Follow the instructions for the paint stripper and apply it to the mirror backing within the marked area.
Use permanent metallic markers to embellish the mirror and create a metallic frame around the photograph.
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 The Gargoyles Fans Website :: Episode Review: The Mirror
Facing the mirror, Demona employs a bell and a feather in an incantation which invokes a brilliant flash of green light from the mirror.
But when she retreats into her house and glances in a mirror, the sight of a human face there draws from her a scream that shatters glass.
One of the wildest episodes in "Gargoyles", "The Mirror" introduces Puck (and through him, Oberon's Children) into the series, as well as further developing Goliath and Elisa's feelings about each other and (at the end) providing a new complication in Demona's life.
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 TELEVISION INTERNET - Press Releases
The one and one half hour show produced by the Television Internet Broadcasting Network will be the net's first original television movie of the week, and the start of a half-hour series slated for ten episodes.
Crossover episodes, which feature cast members from one show visiting members from the other show, and often visa versa, were pioneered on television in the 1970s by Woody Kling.
Television Internet CEO Anthony Kling said the show "tackles controversial issues - such as racial discrimination in Hollywood and domestic violene among professional athletes - like my father used to do with "All in the Family".
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 Voodoo Extreme   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Televisions still work, and I was shown one that had a program called "Dick Justice" on.
The Unknown Episode of World War II Interview, Part 2 - A discussion with Mirage Interactive Producer Pawel Kalinowski shedding a little light on their World War II themed RPG.
The primary storyline is modeled after the "Mirror, Mirror" television episode set in the Mirror Universe, which is a bizarro universe of sorts.
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 Ralph Meeker: Television
Joan Crawford starred in the first CBS episode, her television drama debut.
Her film career peaked in the 1930s, but she later made television appearances and continued to turn up in minor parts in movies into the early 1970s.
Another episode, "The Return of Joe Forrester," starring Lloyd Bridges, was spun off as the Joe Forrester series for Bridges.
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 Television Without Pity » Mondo Extras » Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Television Without Pity » Mondo Extras » Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story
I get excited, because it's always been my dream that Diana Ross will appear to me in my dreams like some kind of Motown Old Testament sign of things to come.
We begin with a strange, creepy montage and some strange, creepy music: Lots of shots of this weird Chinese dragon sculpture from different angles, gold records, a mirror, and the shimmery sounds of ambient crap.
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 Australian Television: Mirror, Mirror
When Jo Tiegan is given an oval-shaped mirror, as a gift, by the elderly owner of an antique shop, she is amazed to see another girl's image in the mirror instead of her own reflection.
Jo (from the 1990's) and the girl in the mirror, Louisa Iredale (from 1919), later accidently find that they can also travel to each other's times through the mirror—following upon which discovery a relentless sequence of events is set in motion.
The mirror has mysterious qualities which enable the children to travel back in time to the goldfields of the 1860s.
www.australiantelevision.net /mirrormirror.html   (335 words)

  
 Western Theater: The Mirror Episode Cast Members - TV.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Add Recurring Roles to Western Theater - The Mirror.
One of the hardest working child actresses of the 1950´s, Mimi Gibson earned over §100.000 (in 1963 dollars) from appearances in 35 movies and 100 Television Shows.
Her mother took Mimi and her sister to Los Angeles after her father´s death when she was a baby.
www.tv.com /the-mirror/episode/117373/cast.html   (112 words)

  
 Book Reviews 3-25-98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Mirror" which originally aired on Oct. 6, 1967.
Seen in countless repeats of the series since, "Mirror, Mirror" has been a
"Mirror, Mirror" was nominated for a Hugo Award for best science fiction
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