A Most Unusual Camera - 4th of July TZ marathoning

 There are certain Twilight Zone episodes that sort of give me a grand bit of amusement. They aren't meant to be anything substantially thought-provoking or leave me pondering any deep meaning. A Most Unusual Camera remains one of those delights I catch at around 10PM during long marathons, typically on the first day. You won't glean from this episode much in the way of humanity's inhumanity in a philosophical Rod Serling style. This is about three crooks who happen upon a camera that predicts the future through a taken picture when a button is pressed. Two of the crooks robbed an antique store with items that aren't of any value...the camera just happened to be among the many cheap knockoffs that Chester and Paula Dietrich thought were much more valuable. And the end result is four people taking an improbable flight out a dinky hotel room window... not only does Chet and Paula's dopey brother, Woodward, take a trip out the window while in the midst of a fight, but Paula trips over a cord, and a member of the hotel staff named Pierre does as well. Pierre's flight out the window makes no sense whatsoever...it would have to be voluntary unless some phantom wind knocked him over and out. What I got a kick out of was just how fast Chet goes from talking about handing over the camera to "science" where it could be useful and using the camera to make a lot of money at the horsetrack. It was like a switch flipped. The moment he sees Woodward watching the horserace, his mind totally went away from anything altruistic and back to "what has humanity done for me."