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"Miniature" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Charley Parkes thinks he sees a figure in a museum dollhouse that comes alive. Charley returns to the museum numerous times and gazes into the dollhouse. He keeps coming back and sees the doll in the house come alive.

Charley falls in love with the figure, a woman, but is institutionalized because of his belief that the figure of the woman (as well as a housekeeper and a man) is alive. He eventually is "rehabilitated" and is returned to the care of his mother.

On the evening of his return home, his mother, sister, brother-in-law and his former girlfriend plan to celebrate his release with him, but discover that he has snuck out of the house. They contact the psychiatrist who treated Charley in the hospital and surmise that he has returned to the museum and the dollhouse.

The family members, psychiatrist and museum guards search the museum but find nothing. Except for one guard, who glances into the dollhouse and sees Charley, now a miniature figure, finally together with his love in the dollhouse. The guard decides to never reveal what he witnessed.

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• Because of a lawsuit, this episode was not included in the syndication package for The Twilight Zone. It was finally re-aired in 1984.
• When it was re-released in 1984, a colorized version had been created. It has the obscure distinction of being the world's first use of computer colorization. Only scenes inside the dollhouse were colorized.
• This story is very similar to "The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture", a short story by Edogawa Rampo. In Rampo's story a young man falls in love with a beautiful young rag picture doll. This man's younger brother shrinks him to the size of the doll by looking at him through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. The shrunken man then takes his place next to the beautiful doll in the rag picture. Tragically the man ages and becomes a very old man whereas the doll remains a beautiful young woman.
• Charley's beloved doll plays several times on a harpsichord; she's playing from the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata no. 11 in A.

• Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition). ISBN 1-879505-09-6.

• Miniature at the Internet Movie Database
• TV.com episode page

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