Castle monitors

Probably the most boring of the interfaces in the story (from an interaction design perspective, rather than an ethical one), these are monochrome monitors showing feeds from hidden, closed-circuit television cameras in places around the castle—including places you’d expect to be private. Magenta and Riff Raff watch Janet’s bedroom from the laboratory. Magenta and Columbia watch the laboratory feed from a castle room. Riff Raff lets Frank-N-Furter know that Rocky has escaped via the monitor in Brad’s room. Dr. Scott appears at the front of the castle as seen from the laboratory monitor. The monitors are unusual for being octagonal, but this looks like a frame on a 4:3 television, standard for the mid-1970s. Note that the show that made this treatment much more famous was Battlestar Galactica, which would air 3 years after this movie’s release. (Another potential influence?) Interfaces Magenta and Columbia’s monitor has a single dial in the upper right. We never see it in use. The one…