A long-time reader, first-time poster here. This discussion of reversed scenes has finally cohersed me to post a message.
There's another reversed scene that I can think of in addition to the two mentioned so far. In the Merchant of Mayberry, Andy and Barney are talking with Bert Miller on the sidewalk in front of the grocery store and Ben Weaver sees them from a distance and walks up to them. This is the first time that we see Ben in this episode. When Ben sees them from a distance and begins toward them, he is walking in front of the theater, but in the following shot he enters the scene from the opposite direction, coming from the direction of the courthouse. If I remember right, the shot where Ben is walking in front of the theatre is reversed, in order to make sense of the direction from which he enters the following shot. Only when you realize that he shouldn't have been walking in front of the theater do you start to question what's going on. The same shot in front of the theater appears again later in the episode when Ben discover's Bert's new stand, only this time the scene is not reversed. While we're talking about trained noticin', has anyone ever noticed that the quonset huts from Gomer Pyle, USMC are visible in the episode Goober's Contest? When the cars are lining up at the filling station, in the background there are those buildings, clear as day. Some vehicles are parked in front of them, but you can still identify the buildings. I try to read the digest every day, but I might have missed this being mentioned. My apologies if I'm pointing out something already discussed. Travis "No thanks, Leon." Travis K. Miller MA 139 Coordinator and Instructor, Dept. of Mathematics Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction Purdue University Office: MATH 445 - Office hours: W 1:30-2:30; F 12:30-2:20 _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://mail.wbmutbb.com/mailman/listinfo/wbmutbb_wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
