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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
14th Mar, 2021 03:54:37 AM
Needs a page but "The New Accelerator" and "The Crystal Egg" from The Infinite Worlds Of HG Wells?
Working on cleaning up List Of Shows That Need Summary
LegendOfZia
Since: Mar, 2021
24th Mar, 2021 08:56:49 AM
The first one might also be "In The Zone" an episode of "The Outer Limits."
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PCD
Since: May, 2021
16th May, 2021 06:45:42 PM
Another possibility might be "Amazing Stories"?
"You want weapons?! We're in a Library! BOOKS! The best weapons in the universe!" — The Doctor
I think it was about 15 years ago that I saw a movie that might have been a part of a tv show. The episodes were about 1-2 hours long(not sure), in color, they were all about sci-fi themes and had a twilight zone kind of vibe to them (might have actually been twilight zone but which episodes?). I'm almost sure the language was English, at most french (I saw it dubbed). The episodes were not related between them and were meant to be independent stories. I only saw 2 and here is what I remember.
First episode plot: 2-3 students investigate a man(possibly scientist) who is either missing or is a campus urban legend. I remember very clearly a scene when one of them sees a poster of a hummingbird in flight and has an epiphany when he sees that the bird's wings become invisible because they are moving very fast. They figure out that the man they are looking for has somehow(possibly through the use of a potion/serum) entered a plane of reality where everything exists so fast that it becomes invisible. In another scene they are able to briefly experience this effect themselves, I remember how they are walking and everything around them is stopped in time. One of them picks up a ball and throws it and it just froze in the air. By the end they are able to find and see the man they were looking for, he is old with long white hair, the accelerated existence made him live his entire life in a few days and he is near death.
Second Episode: I only saw a bit, it was about a middle aged woman who somehow came into possession of a strange stone, about the size of an ostrich egg, it was suggested that there is something paranormal about this stone. I remember a scene when an acquaintance of this woman (a doctor/chemist/scientist), while visiting her, notices the stone and asks if he can scrape a bit off to take to his lab and investigate it under a microscope.
That's it. Please help me find the name of the show and specifically these episodes or at least the first one.