The Little People (The Twilight Zone) Zone" historian Marc Zicree, series producer Buck Houghton discussed that the final scene in which the giant astronauts appear and stand towering behind the mountains in the foreground. He explained that this was an optically composited matte shot which combined new footage of the two actors playing the 'giants' with stock location footage of the real mountains around Death Valley, which had originally been filmed two years earlier for the Season 1 episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Like many other installments of "Twilight Zone" episodes, this episode used several props and costumes originally created for MGM's "Forbidden
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