> H. G. Wells wrote a story along those lines, but it wasn't that time was stopped but that time was extremely slowed. The main character was in a park was watching people more or less frozen. The observation was made that sometimes people's facial expressions look strange, funny, or even unsettling when they're frozen at a random point instead of part of a fluid gesture of body language -- particularly in the case of one guy who was in the middle of a wink. There was also some concern about not moving too quickly, or the friction with the air would burn him up. I don't remember much more of that story, but I'm curious now to go back and read it again. I don't even remember the title, unfortunately.

There were also a couple of early '80's TV movies about a guy who had a pocket-watch that could freeze time. They were called "The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything" and "The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Dynamite". They were incredibly cheesy movies, and in no way incorporated even rudimentary laws of physics. The time-freeze thing was just a plot convenience for the good-guy to stop the bad guys. I remember one scene where the good-guy runs into a room and pushes the "stop time" button on The Gold Watch to save The Girl, who had just been shot at by the bad-guy. While time is frozen, he moves the girl out of the path of the bullet and then proceeds to turn the bullet around 180 degrees so that it is facing the bad guy. Presumably, the viewers are supposed to think that when time starts again, the bullet will be shooting toward the bad guy. As in all good/bad movies, our hero pauses for a moment of reflection and then turns the bullet in a different direction. As soon as he starts time again, the bullet ricochets off a wall and very nearly kills about 5 different people. So here's the moral of that scene: You shouldn't kill people on purpose, but it's OK to cause a situation where somebody (or in this case, five somebodies) is put in mortal danger.

Sheesh, I got off on a rant didn't I?

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