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This is found in both libraries and I am sure it is found in MGM as well. They are found in both libraries under the television. These glasses belong to Henry Bemis a man of his books, where in the end of the episode he ends up dropping and breaking his glasses. This is probably the most remembered episode of the twilight zone.
Synopsis
Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) is a bookish little man who can never find the time to read. He can't read at home or at work because both his wife and boss think reading is a waste of time. Henry takes his lunch breaks in the vault at the bank where he works. During one of these lunch breaks, a super hydrogen bomb is tested, ending mankind. Henry is the only one left. He loses hope and is about to commit suicide when he finds the public library. All the books he could ever hope for are his for the taking. He finally has all the time in the world to read. Unfortunately, as he is about to pick up a book, his reading glasses fall off and shatter.
Opening Narration
Narrator: "Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself without anyone."
Closing Narration
Narrator: "The best laid plans of mice and men and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis in the Twilight Zone."
Season 1, Episode 8
First aired: November 20, 1959
Starring Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline DeWit and Lela Bliss. Written by Rod Serling based upon the short story by Lynn Venable. Directed by John Brahm.
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