- 5W - May 3, 2014 - n.7.03 - Apes - https://youtube/watch?v=q8sT6nz7VUM - Rodman Rod Edward Serling , Syracuse , December 25, 1924 - Rochester, June 28, 1975 , was an American writer , famous for creating the television series The High Chaparral of reality. He was born in Syracuse , the smaller of the two sons of Samuel and Esther , but he grew up in Binghamton , always in the state of New York. In 1959 , CBS agreed to produce a new television series created by Serling : The twilight zone ( loosely translated as The Twilight Zone ). It was an almost revolutionary for television at the time, which for the first time offered to the general public science fiction stories , until then considered the matter poorly suited to the wide audience of the show in the early evening. The 156 episodes of the show , which went for five seasons , proposed themes actually much deeper than those of the films in the genre at the time, when giant monsters destroying sci-fi spaceships . Relying also on their own experiences , Serling wrote stories that behind the facade of science fiction also spoke of racism, fear of differences, fears about the climate of uncertainty determined by the years of the Cold War. At his side, a group of extraordinary writers borrowed from science fiction , especially Charles Beaumont and Richard Matheson reinterpreted classics of the genre and wrote new actors have become classics in their time , perfecting the highest level, the literary device of switching end, the overturning surprise ending , the final twist that completely changed the perspective of history , leaving the viewer in awe . In addition to writing many of the stories in the series and having the artistic direction , Serling also became a celebrity of television, as it appeared in the video at the end of each episode and briefly illustrated the theme of the episode as follows: in that role , the production Orson Welles had previously contacted , but the fee is too high required by the great director made sure that we were to approach a solution to the internal cheaper , and created the television character Serling . In 1964, CBS canceled the show , particularly given the high production costs , and Serling sold his part of rights, also to avoid the continuing causes of plagiarism that were hitting a few episodes of the series. In 1969, he moved to NBC, Serling returned to television with a new series, Night Gallery ( Mystery in the gallery) , directed more to the horror and the macabre than The Twilight Zone . In the new series , Serling introduced the three segments of each episode, and also wrote many screenplays . At the beginning of the third season of the series, however, conflicts began to arise between Serling and the production, which began to reject an increasing number of his scripts . For these contrasts, and for the lack of success of the series, which was never able to get good viewing figures , Night Gallery was canceled in 1973 . The work of writer Serling meanwhile continued even outside of television, with a number of screenplays in the balance between science fiction and political fiction : among them , seven days in May ( Seven days in May , 1964) , which described attempt an attack on the President of the United States, the Man , he imagined the first black president of the United States , and especially planet of the Apes . https://youtube/watch?v=VjcpRHuPjOI - Planet of the Apes (1968 ), co- written with Michael Wilson - Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner , based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle . The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall , Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter , James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison. It was the first in a series of five films made between 1968 and 1973 all produced by Arthur P. Jacobs and released by 20th Century Fox. Pierre Boulle , 20 February 1912-30 January 1994 , was a French novelist best known for two works , The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963) , That Both were made into award-winning films. The script was originally written by Rod Serling but underwent many rewrites before filming Eventually Began . (M.S.C.G.)
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