11 Classic Twilight Zone Episodes That Could Be Improved By Colorization
10. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
This story, based on the famous Ambrose Bierce short story, is not a true Twilight Zone episode, but is a pre-existing film purchased from the Cannes Film Festival. Peyton Farquhar is a Confederate saboteur who escapes his Yankee executioners, and makes it back to his plantation home, only to find that the entire escape happened in his imagination, when his life flashed before his eyes at the last moment.
HOW COLORIZATION COULD HELP: Although Black and White is an art form in itself, many films in those days were made that way for budgetary rather than artistic reasons. Unlike the Alfred Hitchcock adaptation of the same story, this episode has almost no dialogue, and, like most Cannes films, is less about the story than about sensations and visual imagery. Shots of nature, close-ups of spider webs, a drop of dew on a leaf. The timelessness that black and white suggests is not needed for this story, which is firmly fixed in the American Civil War. Instead, the story is about visual impressions that are vivid, real and immediate. For that reason, the entire episode might be improved by colorization.