(john frankenheimer) "seconds" was a weird movie.te a bit of editing in that first section to show emotion and tension. bop-bop-bop. that kind of thing to really jar the audience. kind of like slapping them in the face. (scary music playing) we always tried to stretch the medium. and we found ways to make things work. i mean, we didn't think, "my god, we can't do this." it was always the opposite, "how can we do this?" and we did it. (man in tv) i am a united states senator. i have a question so serious that the safety of our nation may well depend on your answer. (john frankenheimer) the tv image was actually done by a television camera shooting him at the same time we shot the film camera. television plays an important part in that movie. politicians use television. the media is powerful. television bores right into your very existence. he made television virtually a character. if you remember the film, which was a long time ago, we all see them again and again through cassettes and so on, everything as being watched on television