Setting up Twonky Server with your QNAP NAS is incredibly easy. Simply download the Twonky Server app from the QTS App Center, purchase a license from the QNAP Software Store, and activate it in the QTS License Center. Twonky is a level 30 NPC that can be found in Borean Tundra. This NPC can be found in Borean Tundra. This NPC is the objective of Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty and The Sub-Chieftains. Twonky Server 8.5.1 is available as a free download on our software library. Twonky Server can be installed on Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 environment, 32-bit version. The software relates to Internet & Network Tools. The file size of the latest downloadable installer is 4.6 MB. The program's installer file is commonly found as twonkytray.exe. The Twonky is a 1953 independently made American black-and-white science fiction / comedy film, produced by A.D. Nast, Jr., Arch Oboler, and Sidney Pink, written and directed by Arch Oboler, and starring Hans Conried, Gloria Blondell, Billy Lynn, and Edwin Max. The film was distributed by United Artists.
| The Twonky | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Arch Oboler |
| Produced by | A.D. Nast, Jr. (executive producer) Arch Oboler (producer) Sidney Pink (associate producer) |
| Screenplay by | Arch Oboler |
| Based on | 'The Twonky' by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore |
| Starring | Hans Conried Gloria Blondell Billy Lynn Edwin Max |
| Music by | Jack Meakin |
| Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
| Edited by | Betty Steinberg |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date | June 10, 1953 |
| 84 minutes | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Twonky is a 1953 independently made American black-and-whitescience fiction/comedy film, produced by A.D. Nast, Jr., Arch Oboler, and Sidney Pink, written and directed by Arch Oboler, and starring Hans Conried, Gloria Blondell, Billy Lynn, and Edwin Max.[1] The film was distributed by United Artists.
Plot[edit]
After seeing his wife (Janet Warren) off on her trip, Kerry West (Hans Conried), a philosophy teacher at a small-town college goes inside his home to contemplate his new purchase: a television set. Sitting down in his office, he places a cigarette in his mouth and is about to light it when a solid beam of light shoots from the television screen, lighting it for him. Absentmindedly unaware of what has taken place, it is only when the television subsequently lights his pipe that West realizes that his television is behaving abnormally.
West soon discovers that the television can walk and perform a variety of functions, including dishwashing, vacuuming, and card-playing. When the television deliveryman (Edwin Max) returns to settle the bill, the television materializes copies of a five-dollar bill in order to provide payment. Yet the television soon exhibits other, more controlling traits, permitting West only a single cup of coffee and breaking West’s classical music records in favor of military marches to which it dances. After West demonstrates the television to his friend Coach Trout (Billy Lynn), the coach declares the television set to be a “twonky”, the word he used as a child to label the inexplicable.
Trout concludes that the Twonky is actually a robot committed to serving West. When he tests this hypothesis by attempting to kick West, the Twonky paralyzes his leg. After tending to the coach, West attempts to write a lecture on the role of individualism in art, but the Twonky hits him with beams that alter his thoughts and censors his reading. When West attempts to give his lecture the next day, he finds himself unable to do more than ramble on about trivialities. Frustrated, West goes to the store from which his wife had ordered the television and demands that they take it back or exchange it.
Meanwhile, at West’s house, the coach summons members of the college's football team and orders them to destroy the Twonky. West arrives with the television deliveryman and his replacement set, only to find the players passed out in front of the machine. Upon being awakened by West, they appear to be in a hypnotic state mumbling that they have “no complaints,” a condition the Twonky soon inflicts on the deliveryman as well. Upstairs, Trout theorizes that the Twonky is from a future “super state” that uses such machines to control the population, which the Twonky soon demonstrates by walking into the room and altering his mind so that he no longer believes there to be a problem. As the now-fixed Trout attempts to leave, police storm into the house in response to a call made by the device seeking female companionship for West, followed by Treasury men tracking down the bogus $5 bills manufactured by the set. When the law enforcement officers attempt to arrest West, though, the Twonky places all of them in a trance, and they leave without complaint.
Frustrated, West escapes the house and returns drunk, only to have the Twonky return him to sobriety with a light beam. After his wife returns to see a visiting bill collector driven from their home by the machine, West decides to take action. Luring the device into his car, he attempts to crash it by a variety of means but is frustrated by the Twonky’s ability to control the vehicle. Spotting a vehicle parked alongside the road, West pulls over and abandons his car, hitching a ride from the other driver, an elderly Englishwoman. His relief at having escaped is soon negated by the woman’s erratic driving, and by the discovery that the Twonky was able to hide in the trunk. When the Twonky attempts to stop the woman’s reckless driving, it precipitates a crash that destroys itself.
Cast[edit]
- Hans Conried as Kerry West
- Janet Warren as Carolyn West
- Billy Lynn as Coach Trout
- Edwin Max as the Television Deliveryman
- Gloria Blondell as the Bill Collector
- Evelyn Beresford as Old Lady Motorist
- Bob Jellison as the TV Shop Owner
- Norman Field as the Doctor
- Stephen Roberts as Head Treasury Agent
- Connie Marshall as Susie
- William Phipps as Student
- Lenore Kingston as Offended Phone Operator #2
- Alice Backes as Offended Phone Operator #1
- Brick Sullivan as Cop
Production[edit]
The Twonky was based on a 1942 short story by established science fiction writers Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, under their joint pseudonym Lewis Padgett. Arch Oboler had completed the film in 1951, but it did not find a distributor at the time. After he finished the 3D filmBwana Devil (1952), The Twonky was finally released by United Artists. Hans Conried, a noted character actor later in his career, had his first leading role in the film.[2]
Reception[edit]
The Twonky did poorly at the box office; critics saw the poor production values as a major problem. When interviewed in 1970, Hans Conried recalled that he told the producer that The Twonky would probably bomb at the box-office (which it did), whereupon the producer genially replied 'That's all right. I need a tax write-off this year anyway.'[3]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^'The Movie Reporter Speaks.'The Hearne Democrat (via Newspapers.com), October 16, 1953, p. 15. Retrieved: May 1, 2015.
- ^Miller, John M. 'Articles' 'The Twonky' (1953).'Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved: July 20, 2015.
- ^Erickson, Hal. 'Review summary: 'The Twonky' (1953).'The New York Times. Retrieved: July 20, 2015.
Bibliography[edit]
- Warren, Bill. Keep Watching The Skies Vol I: 1950–1957. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1982. ISBN0-89950-032-3.
External links[edit]
- The Twonky at the TCM Movie Database
- The Twonky at IMDb
TwonkyMedia server (TMS) is DLNA-compliant[1]UPnP AV server software originally offered by TwonkyVision GmbH and sold by Lynx Technology. Development and support ceased October 2018 with the shutdown of Lynx Technology Germany GmbH.[citation needed] TMS runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Home Server, and Windows 7 computers as well as Android, iOS, and other mobile platforms. TwonkyMedia server can be used to share and stream media to most UPnP AV or DLNA-compliant clients, in addition to non-UPnP devices through the HTML, RSS, and JSON supported front ends. After the PacketVideo acquisition of Berlin-based TwonkyVision GmbH by 17 October 2006,[2] Twonky was renamed PVConnect by November 2007,[3][4][5] but the name was changed back to TwonkyMedia server by 7 January 2010.[6][7][8] Corporate parent NTT DOCOMO sold PacketVideo NorthAmerica and Europe to Lynx Technology on 10 May 2015 and PacketVideo Japan exactly one year later on 10 May 2016 transferring the Twonky product line to Lynx, renaming TwonkyMedia Server to Twonky Server. Twonky Server was maintained all the time by the former TwonkyVision employees which worked for the German subsidiary Lynx Germany GmbH. Lynx Germany GmbH was shut down 10/2018.[9][10][11]
References[edit]
- ^'Proof of DLNA 1.5 certification as a DMS'(PDF). dlna. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^'PacketVideo Acquires TwonkyVision GmbH: Adds New Products to Accelerate Growth of Convergence Market'. Business Wire. Business Wire. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^'Products - PVConnect'. PV - Embedded Software for Multimedia Services. Archived from the original on 8 November 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2007.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- ^'About us - PV.COM Embedded Software for Multimedia Services'. PV. Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 17 November 2007.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- ^'PacketVideo's PVConnect Software Enables Devices to Share Content with Other Home and Mobile Devices'. Business Wire. Business Wire. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^'TwonkyMedia Goes Mobile with Android Launch at CES'. Business Wire. Business Wire. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^'PacketVideo Launches TwonkyManager 2.0 and TwonkyServer 6.0'. Business Wire. Business Wire. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^'Products - Twonky'. PV Embedded Software for Multimedia Services. Retrieved 12 September 2010.[dead link]
- ^'Lynx Germany GmbH was shut down 10/2018'. Lynx Technology. Lynx Technology. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
- ^'PacketVideo, a subsidiary of NTT DOCOMO, announces acquisition of Japan Connected Home operations by Lynx Technology'. Lynx Technology. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- ^'Home page'. PV. PacketVision. Archived from the original on 2017-10-26.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Further reading[edit]
- 'Iomega muffs hard drive DLNA testing'. The Register. March 2, 2009. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- Jacobi, Jon L. (March 31, 2009). 'TwonkyMedia Manager'. PC World. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- Hui Pan, E. (December 2009). Home Networks Monthly Newsletter. Information Gatekeepers. p. 3.
External links[edit]
Twonky Beam