Ida Lupino would later distinguish herself as the only woman ever to direct a Twilight Zone episode: "The Masks"

Alice Frost returns in "It's a Good Life."

Martin Balsam is best known for his role in Archie Bunker's Place as Murray Klein, [1979-1981] and was in the original Psycho movie.

Martin Balsam returns in "The New Exhibit."

Ted de Corsia returns in "The Brain Center at Whipple's."

Opening Narration
Narrator: Picture of a woman looking at a picture. Movie great of another time, once-brilliant star in a firmament no longer a part of the sky, eclipsed by the movement of earth and time. Barbara Jean Trenton, whose world is a projection room, whose dreams are made out of celluloid. Barbara Jean Trenton, struck down by hit-and-run years and lying on the unhappy pavement, trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.

Danny Weiss: To wishes Barbie, To the ones that come true.

Danny Weiss: I set up an appointment for you today over at International.
Barbara: At International?
Danny Weiss: Yes.
Barbara: A part, Danny?
Danny Weiss: Sounds like a good one, too.
Barbara: Oh darling! You know something? I never did get along with Marty Sall when I was under contract there.
Danny Weiss: Well, he's much older now... I think you'll find that he's mellowed.
Barbara: Oh, you know he said I was the most difficult star he'd ever worked with. Danny, you're a nice guy and a loyal friend, and in my own selfish, devious way I'm very much in love with you. Oh, Danny, I hope it's a musical. Oh, I'd love to dance again. Or a love story. Oh, I'd give anything to play love scenes like I saw this morning. Scenes with Jerry Hearndan. You know we did three pictures together? (quotes a line from the movie) "I have a memory of you for my eyes, thoughts of you for my mind, and the touch of you for all of me." Or something like that. And then we did "A Night in Paris" together.
Danny Weiss: Barbara, you were much younger then.
Barbara: Go to the devil!
Danny Weiss: Now, Barbara, honey, this is 1959, 25 years from "A Night in Paris" and 26 years since you made "Farewell Without Tears." That room across the hall is dark, it's damp, it's full of cobwebs. Come on, snap out of it! Snap out of this kick. You get your war paint on, and I'll meet you over at Sall's office at three o'clock, Okay?

Barbara: There you are, Jerry. There you are. You look so young, so wonderfully young. Who's the strange old man here a while ago who said he was you? Jerry, I wish I could be there with you. I wish I could be up there with you. I wish, oh I wish...
Maid: Miss Trenton? I've brought you a little snack, dear. Wouldn't you like some coffee?
(walks in and sees the current Barbara Jean on the screen; drops the tea tray and screams with horror … china breaks on the floor).

Danny Weiss: Who shut it off?
Maid: I did, an hour ago, and then I called you.
Danny Weiss: Have you looked in her room?
Maid: That's the first place I checked. Then I went to every room in the house. She's not here! She's not here, at least not in the way that you and I are. You gonna run it, Mr. Weiss?
Danny Weiss: Yes, Sally. I'm going to run it.
Barbara Jean Trenton: (on screen) Darlings, it's so good to see you. We're all having dinner by the pool. Please, everyone outside. (She turns toward camera and throws her small scarf.)
Danny Weiss: Barbie! Please come back, Barbara! Barbie, it's me, Danny! Barbie, come back! Please, Barbie! Barbie! Come back, Barbie! (He picks up the scarf that she threw in the picture.) To wishes, Barbie. To the ones that come true.

Closing Narration
Narrator: To the wishes that come true, to the strange, mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own. To Barbara Jean Trenton, movie queen of another era, who has changed the blank tomb of an empty projection screen into a private world. It can happen in the Twilight Zone.

Title:
The title, The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, is in reference to the width of the film that is used in making movies.