#robert pittack
4.17 Passage on the Lady Anne
Director: Lamont Johnson
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Love has its own particular point of view. It sees everything larger than life. Nothing is too ornate, too fanciful, too dramatic. Love demands the theatrical, and then transfigures it. It turns the grotesque into the lovely, as a child does. With it, we can see what we wish to see in other people. Without it, we can’t see anything at all. We can search forever, and never find.”
Post link
4.14 Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Director: David Lowell Rich
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Mr. William J. Feathersmith, tycoon, who tried the track one more time and found it muddier than he remembered - proving with at least a degree of conclusiveness that nice guys don’t always finish last, and some people should quit when they’re ahead.”
Post link
4.11 The Parallel
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Major Robert Gaines, a latter-day voyager just returned from an adventure. Submitted to you without any recommendation as to belief or disbelief. You can accept or reject; you pays your money and you takes your choice. But credulous or incredulous, don’t bother to ask anyone for proof that it could happen. The obligation is a reverse challenge: prove that it couldn’t.”
Post link
4.10 No Time Like the Past
Director: Justus Addiss
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“You’ll go back to your bank, and it’ll be business as usual… until next dinnertime, when you’ll give us another vacuous speech about enlarging and strengthening countries by filling graveyards. Well, if THIS country shares your devilishly virile sentiments–as I dread it just might–then you’re in for some gratifying times, Mr. Hanford. Believe me, there’ll be a lot of graveyards for America to fill… and not just her own. We’ll show how red our blood is, because we’ll spill it. And we’ll show how red our neighbors’ blood is, because we’ll spill that too. Chances are you won’t have to spill any yourself, or to be there when all that I’ve spoken of comes to pass. I simply don’t know whether to pity you because of said likelihood, or to envy you for it.”
Post link
4.08 Miniature
Director: Walter Grauman
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“To the average person, a museum is a place of knowledge, a place of beauty and truth and wonder. Some people come to study, others to contemplate, others to look for the sheer joy of looking. Charley Parkes has his own reasons. He comes to the museum to get away from the world. It isn’t really the sixty-cent cafeteria meal that has drawn him here every day, it’s the fact that here in these strange, cool halls, he can be alone for a little while, really and truly alone.”
Post link
4.07 Jess-Belle
Director: Buzz Kulik
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Fair was Elly Glover,
Dark was Jess-Belle,
Both they loved the same man,
And both they loved him well.”
Post link
5.21 Spur of the Moment
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“This is the face of terror: Anne Marie Mitchell, forty-three years of age, her desolate existence once more afflicted by the hope of altering her past mistake—a hope which is, unfortunately, doomed to disappointment. For warnings from the future to the past must be taken in the past; today may change tomorrow but once today is gone, tomorrow can only look back in sorrow that the warning was ignored.”
✨Support✨
Post link
5.19 Night Call
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene’s existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair, reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication and waiting for something different to happen. Miss Keene doesn’t know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended. For something different is about to happen to her, has, in fact already begun to happen via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night.”
✨Support✨
Post link
5.12 Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Director: Roger Kay
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Each man measures his time; some with hope, some with joy, some with fear. But Sam Forstmann measures his allotted time with a grandfather’s clock, a unique mechanism whose pendulum swings between life and death, a very special clock that keeps a special kind of time…”
✨Support✨
Post link
5.09 Probe 7, Over and Out
Director: Ted Post
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“One Colonel Cook, a traveler in space. He’s landed on a remote planet several million miles from his point of departure. He can make an inventory of his plight by just one 360-degree movement of head and eyes. Colonel Cook has been set adrift in an ocean of space in a metal lifeboat that has been scorched and destroyed and will never fly again. He survived the crash but his ordeal is yet to begin. Now he must give battle to loneliness. Now Colonel Cook must meet the unknown.”
✨Support✨
Post link
5.08 Uncle Simon
Director: Don Siegel
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Dramatis personae: a metal man, who will go by the name of Simon, whose life as well as his body has been stamped out for him; and the woman who tends to him, the lady Barbara, who’s discovered belatedly that all bad things don’t come to an end, and that once a bed is made, it’s quite necessary that you sleep in it.”
✨Support✨
Post link
5.07 The Old Man in the Cave
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“When we talked about the ways that men could die, we forgot the chief method of execution. We forgot faithlessness, Major French. Maybe you’re not to blame. Maybe if it weren’t you, it would have been someone else. Maybe this has to be the destiny of man. I wonder if that’s true. I wonder. I guess I’ll never know. I guess I’ll never know.”
✨Support✨
Post link
5.06 Living Doll
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Of course, we all know dolls can’t really talk, and they certainly can’t commit murder. But to a child caught in the middle of turmoil and conflict, a doll can become many things: friend, defender, guardian.”
✨Support✨
Post link
