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the host, known as the "Time Traveler" in the script, arrived late - appearing in the dining room doorway, disheveled, exhausted, with a torn shirt and dirt on his face; he began an explanation of what had happened to him, with a flashback to their earlier dinner meeting five days earlier
at that time during another dinner get-together in his home, the traveler spoke of the possibility of movement within the 4th Dimension - Time ("The fourth dimension cannot be seen or felt"); he explained: "But when it comes to Time, we are prisoners"; he then unveiled from a box an invention that had been two years in the making - a miniature time machine - a "small experimental model"; he added: "To carry a man, a larger edition is needed" - to journey through time to either the past or the future; George pondered to himself: "Can man control his destiny? Can he change the shape of things to come?"
when he activated the small-scale model (with a cigar impersonating an individual seated on it) by pushing a tiny lever on the front control panel, it disappeared; George explained: "It worked.... It's still here. But it's no longer in the present. Do you realize, it's traveling through time. To the future, to be exact...Time changes space"; George announced he was planning to take a journey into the future; all the gentlemen scoffed (especially Hillyer) at the "contraption" when it vanished, except for Filby
after all of the gentlemen left, Philby remained behind for a moment, and expressed worries over George's state of mind and well-being, and strange preoccupations: "You've been behaving oddly for over a month now...You've changed, George, enormously"; George admitted he didn't care for the present very much, especially its rampant warfare and spread of weaponry: ("I don't much care for the time I was born into...I prefer the future"); Philby was concerned about his friend's ungodly tampering with time: "I have no desire to tempt the laws of Providence. And I don't think you should. It's not for man to trifle with....If that machine can do what you say it can, destroy it. Destroy it, George, before it destroys you!"; as the two parted, George told Philby to invite the entire group back for dinner in five days
George retreated to his laboratory (a converted greenhouse with glass windows) - the location of his full-scale 'Time Machine' - a duplicate of the miniature model; it had the same appearance as the smaller version - a red velvet Victorian seat with a futuristic control panel of levers, and behind the seat, a sled or sleigh-shaped mechanism with a large circular rotating clockwork disc (resembling a solar disc)
as the film progressed, there were multiple stops along the way in his 'time travel' journey to the future; there were a few predicted elements of the future that author Wells had alluded to in his novel: December 31, 1899 (earlier meeting, seen only in flashback), January 5, 1900 (dinner meeting 5 days later), September 13, 1917 (The Great War, or WWI), June 19, 1940 (WWII in Europe, the English "Blitz"), August 18, 1966 (air-raid warnings and underground shelters, during an atomic blast followed by a volcanic eruption), and October 802,701 (the far future)
at the start of his first journey, George seated himself in his time travel machine and pushed the crystalline lever forward (the time machine was crystal-powered); after advancing only a short distance in time (about 2 hours), he noticed differences in his environment (visualized through stop-motion animation and/or time-lapse photography) - the candle was shorter in inches; then he proceeded further ahead, watching the arc of the sun, and flowers progressing through their life cycle
as he went faster and pushed the lever further ahead, he noticed other more rapid developments over a series of days and weeks: the mannequin in the store window across the street changed styles and fashions (in voice-over): "I began to grow very fond of that mannequin. Maybe because, like me, she didn't age"
in the year 1917 (September), things drastically changed as the greenhouse windows were abruptly boarded up and it turned dark: ("Suddenly the light was gone"); George exited the time machine and noticed that in his adjoining house, the furnishings were covered and it was very dusty and full of cobwebs; outside, the exterior of the closed-up house was unkempt and overgrown with weeds, and it was fenced off with PRIVATE PROPERTY-KEEP OUT signs; out on the street, he mistook son James Filby (also Alan Young) for his father David; James informed him that his father had died in the war a year earlier; he also learned that "the inventor chap" from across the street disappeared "around the turn of the century," and that war had been raging between Britain and Germany since 1914; David had been the executor of the inventor's estate, but had refused to liquidate it - believing that the owner would eventually return
George returned to his house, removed the boards from the greenhouse windows, reseated himself, and proceeded further into the future; his next time-travel stop was in 1940 - due to an exploding bomb nearby; upset that another war was occurring, ("The war with Germany was still waging. Now in the air with flying machines. Then I realized the truth of the matter. This was a new war"), the disillusioned traveler decided to proceed further, and about the year 1942, his house was hit, flames shot up, and his home was "gone in an instant" - and he found himself in the open air
due to sounds of strange sirens and other loud noises, the traveler stopped his machine on August 18, 1966, and found himself in an open garden park area; he watched as people were hastily departing from their parked cars and running toward a nearby underground air-raid shelters for safety; he noticed a plaque erected in the park where his sundial had been positioned: "THIS PARK IS DEDICATED BY JAMES FILBY TO HIS FATHER'S DEVOTION FOR HIS FRIEND, GEORGE"; outside the Filby's Department Store, George noticed an elderly James in his mid-60s, one of the Civil Defence Wardens dressed in a silver plastic suit with white helmet, who was scurrying toward the shelter to take cover: ("We'd better be going before the mushrooms start sprouting"); although Filby remembered speaking to him in 1917, he then thought it had to be very unlikely: "That's impossible! You haven't changed. You're not a day older"; ignoring George's questions, he fled when he observed up in the sky: "An atomic satellite zeroing in!"
George was thrown to the ground by shockwaves from a blinding flash, followed by an explosion and a giant mushroom cloud on the horizon; the atomic blast destroyed the once-beautiful city, and molten lava flowed through the streets; George thought to himself (voice-over): "The labor of centuries, gone in an instant"; the bomb set off volcanic explosions and a massive, red-hot lava flow: ("Mother Earth, aroused by man's violence, responded with volcanic violence of her own. Only my speed through time saved me from being roasted alive and encased in stone forever"); he had no choice but to rush to his time-traveling machine and escape into the future
as he traveled onward through centuries of time, he prayed to be saved: ("I prayed, wondering how many centuries, how many eons must pass before the wind and rain could wear away the mountain that enclosed me"); he lit a march in the darkness to see the control panel spinning and passing through many hundreds of years ("I put my trust in time and waited for the rock to wear down around me"); suddenly, the rock was finally worn away, and blue sky with a lush landscape surrounded him; he declared: "I was free again"; he asked himself: "Thousands of centuries had passed, but the Earth had stayed green! There was no winter! No wars! Had man finally learned to control both the elements and himself? I had to stop and find out"
he had hurtled toward October 12, 802701; when he finally pulled the lever back too sharply, his time machine began to wildly spin and capsize, and he was tossed onto the ground; he noticed he had tumbled down in front of large metal doors - the base of a temple with a Sphinx-like head; he wandered into a magnificent green garden area with flowers (and devoid of weeds or briars); he was overjoyed: "Trees and vines laden with fruits of strange shapes and colors. Nature tamed completely, and more bountiful than ever before! At last, I'd found a paradise" - but he wondered if he was all alone: ("But it would be no paradise if it belonged to me alone")
he came across the gigantic ruins of a weathered and broken-down large structure with two sphinx statues on either side of a large flight of concrete stairs: ("Unrepaired for centuries! Maybe unlived in for as long"); inside were low tables (without seats but cushions for sitting on the floor) with white metal place-settings and centerpieces of exotic fruit; he called out: "Anybody here?" and his voice echoed; outside, as he continued to wander about apprehensively, he began to hear human voices, splashing water and laughter; he found people of the utopian future (youthful, carefree, and innocent-looking barefooted men and women in thin pastel-colored robes) who were swimming, sunbathing, romping, and playing in the sunshine: "So this is man's future, to bask in the sunlight, bathe in the clear streams and eat the fruits of earth with all knowledge of work and hardship forgotten"
suddenly, he heard screams from one of the drowning girls in the rough current, while other indifferent individuals looked on and completely ignored her plight or came to her rescue; when no one responded to his calls: "HELP HER!", George dived into the water and saved her; however, she didn't respond when he asked: "Are you alright?"; she appeared bewildered, unemotional, and lacking either gratitude or fear for being rescued; he couldn't understand why no one acknowledged his presence
afterwards, George watched as the oblivious young people in their multi-colored robes ran over to the Great Hall and entered; he was astonished and perplexed that they were completely uninterested in him, except for the girl he had saved; she came over to him on the steps and asked: "Why did you...come after me?"; to his surprise, she was also apathetic about his rescue of her, like the others, causing him to wonder: "That's a very curious attitude - a very curious world"; after he followed up: "Aren't you interested in who I am? Where I come from?", she answered: "Should I be?"; when he asked to speak to someone older, she replied: "There is no one older" - and he realized everyone was the same age; she gave him her name Weena (Yvette Mimieux), and the name of her race of small and delicate young people (known as the Eloi); he spelled the two words out in the dust of the steps; she was fearful of the dark and led him inside the Great Hall
through further questioning of Weena and the others, George realized that the Eloi were illiterate, emotionless, didn't value life, lacked inquisitiveness about life or learning, and had no government or set of laws; they also didn't work, and were somehow provided with their clothing and food; he expressed his interest in finding out her civilization and asked: "Do you have books?" and one of the young men answered affirmatively
he was led to a musty old library with shelves and shelves of books covered by dusty curtains; when he pulled one of the volumes from a shelf, the pages (and then the entire book) crumbled into ashes in his hands and fell to the floor; he reacted with rage for the disrespect and neglect shown to the books, and chastized the confused and apathetic lad for the utter lack of concern shown for the creation of historical works over thousands of years: "What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and re-creating so you can let it crumble to dust! A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what?! So you can swim and dance and play!"
George strode back into the Great Hall and announced his utter frustration with their society: "I'm going back to my own time! I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle, the hopeless future, but at least I can die among men!"; he marched back to his time machine, but was stunned that it was missing; parallel tracks (with half-human footprints next to them revealed it had been dragged inside the temple's locked doors; he also noticed some pale, indistinct figures observing and spying on him behind some bushes
Weena had followed him, to inform him that he was unable to open the metal doors: "No one opens it. Only the Morlocks"; he learned that she was clearly frightened of the underground-dwelling Morlocks whom they were forced to obey, when she told him: "They give us the food we eat and the clothes we wear. We must obey their command"; he commented on her childlike nature for being fearful of the dark - presumably because the Morlocks only came out at night
he suggested building a fire and await the morning before trying to enter the doors; as they gathered dry pieces of firewood, he reminisced about how his house and laboratory stood exactly where they were now; but he was clearly frustrated with what the future had revealed to him: "I had hoped to learn such a great deal. I hoped to take back the knowledge and the advancement that mankind had made. Instead, I find vegetables. The human race reduced to living vegetables"
as he spoke to her, she was dragged off screaming by one of the white-haired Morlock creatures into the bushes, and he again rescued her; he hoped the fire he had lit would keep them away; however, she cluelessly reached out into the fire, and he muttered: "No knowledge of fire. No books, huh"; then, he apologized for his outburst earlier against her people in the Great Hall: ("I am sorry I was angry with your people. I had no right to be"); he recognized in Weena a possible and daring spirit of self-sacrifice and inquiry: ("And you have that quality. I think all of your people have it, really. It just needs someone to reawaken it. I should like to try if you'll let me. Will you?"); she answered: "I do not understand you, but I believe you"
when he further asked her about the Morlocks, she couldn't answer; his questions about the past and future were simply answered: "There is no past....There is no future"; he was hopeful that he could rekindle their spark of emotion and interest in life: "The past, man's past, is mainly a grim struggle for survival. But there have been moments when a few voices have spoken up. And these rare moments have made the history of man, man's past, a glorious thing. I refuse to believe it's dead and gone. We've had our dark ages before. This is just another one of them. All it needs is for someone to show you the way out. I'm only a tinkering mechanic, but I'm sure there must be that hidden spark in one of your people. If only I can kindle that spark, my coming here will have some meaning"
the next morning to find another way to retrieve his machine, Weena and George surveyed open concrete domed structures through which ominous sounds of giant throbbing machines emerged; Weena mentioned learning about the machines and life underground through "rings that talk"; she led him to a green-walled ancient museum (down a corridor inside the Great Hall) to demonstrate the rings, that she said explained "things no one here understands"; by spinning them, recordings briefly told the de-evolving history of the Earth - marked by continual warfare - (voice of Paul Frees) "The war between the East and West, which is now in its 326th year, has at last come to an end....The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs that it can no longer be breathed. There is no place on this planet that is immune...Some chose to take refuge in the great caverns and find a new way of life far below the Earth's surface. The rest of us decided to take our chances in the sunlight - small as those chances might be"
in voice-over, George told what he had learned from the rings: "From the talking rings, I learned how the human race divided itself and how the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks began. By some awful quirk of fate, the Morlocks had become the masters and the Eloi their servants. The Morlocks maintained them and bred them like, like cattle, only to take them below when they reached maturity. Which explained why there were no older people among them"
George was determined to enter one of the domed structures (a well or air shaft) to go below and search for his time machine; Weena was worried: "You won't come back!," but he reassured her: "I'll be back"; she gave him a pink blossom that he put in his pocket; after partially descending, he heard loud air-raid sirens from the Sphinx-like structure blasting a deafening noise; he reappeared on the surface and watched as the Eloi marched expressionless and trance-like from the Great Hall and other locations straight toward the structure to enter into the metal gates that were now open; they were being summoned to their deaths, taking advantage of their instinctual response to the air-raid sirens to seek underground cover
frantically, George searched for Weena but was unable to reach her and save her before the metal doors closed and locked behind her, when the sirens subsided: ("It is all clear"); after persistent questioning, the Eloi could not tell him what would happen to "the ones who went below"; one man answered: "They never come back. Nobody can bring them back" before everyone calmly dispersed
he returned to the domed structure and climbed back down into the rocky shaft to the base floor of an underground cavern; he constructed a makeshift torch, and then after searching around and finding throbbing machines, he was dismayed to locate a feasting room - a depository of human skeletons and remains providing evidence of carnivorous cannibalism; he reacted (in voice-over); "So this was the destiny of the Eloi. They were being bred by the Morlocks who had degenerated into the lowest form of human life"; he watched as a group of Eloi (including Weena) was forced to march in single-file by whip-wielding Morlocks (half-human and half-ape creatures with clawed hands, blinking and glowing eyes, savage teeth, greenish-blue skin, and long white hair on their heads and arms)
he was able to protect the group of Eloi by fending off the Morlocks with a lit match to blind them; they were fearful of fire and bright light; he also fought them off with a burning torch, as he attempted to guide the Eloi to safety; he also brawled with the monstrous creatures using his fists before he was able to lead the long line of Eloi on a rocky stairway-ledge out of the cavern and up the well entrance to the surface; he encouraged the Eloi to toss piles of dried wood back into the wells, feeding the flames already burning below, and causing explosions that collapsed the wells and swallowed up the entire cave area and obliterated many of the Morlocks
George described in voice-over the partial victory he had won to free the Eloi from fear, but that he felt trapped in their very different world: ("Another night was coming, but this night, no Eloi needed to fear. The underworld of the Morlocks was gone and so was the life of leisure for the Eloi. But then what of me? I was imprisoned in a world in which I just did not belong"; he explained to Weena that to the people of his own time, he could tell them "about the sorrow and the happiness that the future has in store for them. Maybe they could learn from it. Or could they?"; he assured her that she was his only love: "No one like you"
as he was telling her - and about to kiss her: "Oh, Weena, I wish we could go back to my time, or even to the time before that when the world was young. We could be so very happy....", they were interrupted by excited Eloi voices, reporting that the temple's Sphinx-like statue was broken in half and that the metal doors had opened - revealing his time machine; George raced inside to prepare to travel back in time, but Weena hesitated too long and the doors shut behind him; it was revealed to be a trap - he was briefly attacked by a few Morlocks before he was able to activate the time machine, and return to January 5, 1900; at first however, as he watched a dead Morlock deteriorate through time before his eyes, he realized he was advancing into the future rather than going back in time, and he corrected himself
due to the different positioning of the time machine by the Morlocks, George found that when he had arrived home on January 5, 1900, the mechanism was outside in his garden area; as he stumbled into his home, the flashback ended, and he was seated at the dinner table with his guests at 9:20 pm
his dinner guests were skeptical, calling his tale "preposterous," "ridiculous," and "a good yarn"; even George admitted he could hardly believe what had happened to him: ("Take it as a lie if you wish. I scarcely believe it myself, now that I'm back"); to prove the account of his travels, he showed everyone the still-fresh exotic pink flower that Weena had given him, but they were still disbelieving and soon left, except possibly for amateur botanist Filby; as Filby was leaving, George thanked him for his future faith and dedication in him: "Thanks for being such a good friend, David. Always"
in the film's speculative epilogue, after briefly leaving, the concerned Filby returned to the house, but realized after hearing the start-up noises of the time machine in the greenhouse that his best friend was taking another time-travel adventure (tracks of the machine revealed it had been dragged back inside from the garden); he began to ponder George's fate with housekeeper Mrs. Watchett: "Weena was standing here when he last saw her. Right here! The same space in a different time. So he dragged his heavy machine back in here, scratching the floor so he could appear outside the Sphinx again and help the Eloi build a new world. Build a new world for himself. Right where he left her"
David speculated that George wouldn't return "empty-handed to try to rebuild a civilization without a plan" - and had taken three books with him (noticed missing from the shelves); when asked if he might return some day: "Mister Filby, do you think he'll ever return?", Filby answered (with the film's last line): "One cannot choose but wonder. You see, he has all the time in the world"

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The Time Machine

The Time Machine (1960 Film)

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A theatrical poster for the film.

The Time Machine (1960 Film) is the first film adaptation of The Time Machine (Novel) . The film stars Rod Taylor as George , who invents a Time Machine , as well as Yvette Mimieux as Weena .

The film was produced and directed by George Pal, who had earlier made a film version of Wells's The War of the Worlds (1953). Pal always intended to make a sequel to The Time Machine , but he died before it could be produced; the end of Time Machine: The Journey Back functions as a sequel of sorts. In 1985, elements of this film were incorporated into The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal , produced by Arnold Leibovit.

The film received an Oscar for time-lapse photographic effects showing the world changing rapidly.

3 Differences from the Book
4 Film Trivia
6 Production
7 Reception [ edit ]
8 Awards and honors [ edit ]
9 1993 sequel/documentary
10 See also
11 References
12 External links [ edit ]

An inventor named George has invented The Time Machine, and uses it to travel to the far future. He witnesses his world grow and change, only to be consumed by war. Finally, he arrives at an idyllic time in the year 802,701 AD, inhabited by a posthuman race known as the Eloi . He later discovers that they're controlled by the evil Morlocks .

On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner at a house located near London, but their host, H. George Wells , is absent. As requested, they begin without him, but then George staggers in, exhausted and disheveled. He begins to recount his adventures since they last met on New Year's Eve , 1899.

A week earlier, George discusses time as "the fourth dimension" with friends, among them David Filby (Young) and Dr. Philip Hillyer ( Sebastian Cabot ) that his father wanted to keep the house in case the owner ever returned. George then travels to June 19, 1940, into the midst of "a new war ", which he briefly stops in as his machine is buffeted from side to side. George's next stop is August 19, 1966, in a futuristic metropolis. He is puzzled to see people hurrying into a fallout shelter amid the blare of air raid sirens . An older James Filby tells him to get into the shelter. James spots an atomic satellite zeroing in and flees into the shelter. A nuclear explosion causes a volcano to erupt. Civilization is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust . George restarts the machine just in time to avoid being incinerated, but lava covers the machine, then cools and hardens, forcing him to travel far into the future until it erodes away.

He stops the machine on October 12, [2 ] 802,701, next to a low building with a large sphinx on top. George explores, and spots young people by a river. A young woman is drowning, but the others are indifferent. George rescues her, but is surprised by her lack of gratitude or other emotion. She calls herself Weena (Mimieux) and her people the Eloi .

George questions the Eloi, wanting to know more about their civilization. He asks about their books, only to learn they have been left to decay and turn to dust. Outraged by the Elois' apathy and lack of curiosity, George returns to where he had left his time machine, to find that it has been dragged into the sphinx-building, behind locked metal doors. Weena follows George and insists they go back, for fear of " Morlocks " at night. A monster jumps out of the bushes and tries to drag Weena off, but George rescues her and wards the beast off with fire. Weena informs him that the hideous creature was one of the Morlocks.

The next day, Weena shows George what appear to be domed well-like air-shafts in the ground. She then takes him to an ancient museum, where "talking rings" tell of a centuries-long nuclear war/ holocaust . One group of survivors remained underground in the shelters and evolved into the Morlocks, while the other group, which became the Eloi, returned to the surface. George starts climbing down a shaft, but turns back when a siren begins blaring from atop the sphinx-building. Weena and the rest of the Eloi enter a trance-like state, and complacently file through the now-open doors of the building. When the siren stops, the doors close, trapping Weena and others inside.

To rescue Weena, George climbs down a shaft and enters the subterranean caverns and is horrified to discover that the Eloi are little more than free range livestock to the Morlocks, who raise and cannibalise them. He fights the Morlocks with the help of the Eloi, who prove to not be completely helpless, then escapes with them up the shafts to safety. Under his direction, they drop dry dead tree branches into the shafts to feed the fire. The entire area caves in, crushing and suffocating most of the Morlocks below. The next morning, George finds the sphinx-building in charred ruins and the doors to the building open again, with his time machine sitting just inside the entrance. He goes to retrieve his machine, but the doors close behind him and he is attacked by the remaining Morlocks. He uses the time machine to escape back to January 5, 1900 in time to meet his old friends for dinner and to tell them of his time traveling adventure. George's friends scoff at his story and leave; only Filby believes him. George leaves again in the time machine. Filby and George's housekeeper notice three books are missing from George's library which he apparently took with him. They, and the viewer, are left to speculate which three books were removed.

Differences from the Book [ ]

In the book, the eloi are more like human children; they're physically small, can't speak English, and don't seem capable of adult thinking. In the film, they're closer to being human, and can speak English.
In the film, George inspires the Eloi to rise up against the Morlocks, which in the book was a hopeless cause and the Time Traveler didn't even attempt.
In the book, the cause for the divergence of the species was a difference in social class, carried over the generations. In the film, it was caused by a devastating war which caused most of Humanity to live underground.

Film Trivia [ ]

If you look closely at the metal plate that is connected to the front of the machine it says, "Manufactured by H. George Wells".

When encased in rock, George lights a match to see the current time dial on his machine. But the dial is backlit every other time its shown.

During the big underground fight scene, the solid rock wall moves as George pounds a Morlock's head against it.

The Morlocks aren't affected by the light from metal in fusion in their foundry but they recoil from the light of a match.

When the Time Traveler is almost overpowered by the Morlocks, there is a shot of the torch which was whipped out of his hand. It has nearly burnt down, but as he regains it and orders the Eloi to escape, it burns strongly again. During the campfire scene a Morlock attacks Weena, and drags her off. If you look at the top of the frame, as the Morlock drags her away, the stunt man's head can be seen, as he forgot to wear the head part of the costume.

When the time traveler is first starting to travel in time, the sun moves across the window from left to right and below his zenith, indicating that the window faces south. When night arrives, however, the view is of the stars moving right to left, indicating that the window is facing north. Furthermore, the sun appears to take the same path across the sky everyday instead of naturally appearing on a lower path each day as the days grow shorter into winter (the first part of his journey through time). The sun should then take a higher path each day after the winter solstice until the summer solstice and the suns path should cycle up and down as he speeds through the year(s).

As the machine is traveling through time George becomes aware of "strange sounds" which, when he stops, turn out to be air raid sirens. At the speed at which he was traveling through time, the sirens would have had to operate continuously for several days in order for him to have been able to hear them. ⇑⇓ Continuity : When the time machine is traveling through time, close up shots of the control panel show the light bulbs flashing in exact synchronization with the time display. In far off shots of the time machine, the light bulbs are flashing more slowly. George is standing in the small park across from Filby's department store when an atomic weapon detonates. The cars in the street are instantly turned into burned hulks and the building crumbles and bursts into flame. However, George, standing no more than 20 feet away from both, doesn't even break a sweat! While shock waves from a blast can cancel each other out and leave things unhurt, the sheer thermal energy released should have severely burned him at the least. ⇑⇓ Revealing : As George comes to the year 1917, the camera shows that the buildings in the horizon are nothing but poor painting, especially on the wall around the archway. The two buildings right beyond it have distinct differences above and below the top of the archway.

In 1966 when George is about to return to his machine and the atomic bombs (or whatever) go off, George just barely gets out of there before the lava from a nearby volcano cooks him alive. Two plot holes here. One is that in the short time it takes George to walk a few meters to his machine, a volcano explodes and the lava reaches him. Thats very speedy lava..especially considering there were no mountains near George's house. Secondly when the lava approaches, it is just flowing along the ground like normal. But when it reaches George, it splashes around him like a broken water tank. That lava can certainly defy gravity.

picture]X⇑⇓ Continuity : When George stops his time machine at 802701 A.D. he stops it too fast and falls out of his time machine. While he's lying on the ground rain falls out of the sky and only lands on him and a little bit of the ground. When George stands up however his hair and his clothes are completely dry and steam is rising from the ground. Edit At the end of the movie when they're escaping the morlocks, one of them catches on fire - he is obviously wearing a fire protection suit, since he is immensely fatter then the rest of the morlocks. continuity Continuity]: When the Time Traveler gets back into the machine after the volcano scene, because the numbers are turning so fast, you can only see the first number; the first time you see this, the first number says 7, then 8, then 9, indicating 7,000 then 8,000 then 9,000 years, then it cuts to the Traveler for a second, and when it is seen again, it says 80,000 then 90,000 then 100,000.

Rod Taylor as George (H. George Wells, as written on the time machine)
Alan Young as David Filby/James Filby
Yvette Mimieux as Weena
Sebastian Cabot as Dr. Philip Hillyer
Tom Helmore as Anthony Bridewell
Whit Bissell as Walter Kemp
Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Watchett
Paul Frees ( uncredited ) as Voice of the Rings
Many of the cast later on worked with Disney. Rod Taylor voiced Pongo in One Hundred and One Dalmatians . Sebastian Cabot voiced Sir Ector in The Sword in the Stone as well as providing narration at the beginning and end of the film. Cabot also voiced Bagheera in The Jungle Book and narrated three Winnie the Pooh shorts and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh . Alan Young voiced Scrooge McDuck for the first time in Mickey's Christmas Carol and Hiram Flaversham in The Great Mouse Detective . Yvette Mimieux starred in the comedy film, Monkeys, Go Home! and the sci-fi film, The Black Hole . Paul Frees who worked with Disney before, later on voiced Ludwig von Drake.
Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux also co-starred in 1968's Dark of the Sun . [3 ]

Production [ ]

George Pal was already known for pioneering work with animation . He was nominated for an Oscar almost yearly during the 1940s. Unable to sell Hollywood the screenplay, he found the British MGM studio (where he had filmed tom thumb ) friendlier.

Pal originally considered casting a middle-aged British actor in the lead role, such as David Niven or James Mason . He later changed his mind and selected the younger Australian actor Rod Taylor to give the character a more athletic, idealistic dimension. It was Taylor's first lead role in a feature film. [4 ]

MGM art director Bill Ferrari created the Machine, a sled-like design with a big, rotating vertical wheel behind the seat. The live action scenes were filmed from May 25, 1959 to June 30, 1959, in Culver City, California .

Reception [ edit ] [ ]

According to MGM records the film earned $1,610,000 in the US and $1 million elsewhere, turning a profit of $245,000. [1 ]

Awards and honors [ edit ] [ ]

Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects winner (1961) - Gene Warren and Tim Baar
Hugo Award nomination (1961)
AFI's 10 Top 10 - Nominated Science Fiction Film [5 ]

1993 sequel/documentary [ ]

In 1993, a combination sequel - documentary short , Time Machine: The Journey Back , directed by Clyde Lucas, was produced. In the third part, Michael J. Fox talks about his experience with Time Machines from Back to the Future . In the last part, written by original screenwriter David Duncan , Rod Taylor, Alan Young and Whit Bissell reprised their roles.

References [ ]

^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger , Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study .
^ October 12, 1492 was the date on which Columbus landed in 'the new world'.
^ Vagg, Stephen, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood , Bear Manor Media, 2010
^ Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood , Bear Manor Media, 2010 p64
^ AFI's 10 Top 10 Ballot

External links [ edit ] [ ]

The Time Machine at the Internet Movie Database
The Time Machine at the TCM Movie Database
The Time Machine at AllRovi
The Time Machine at Rotten Tomatoes
"Time Machine The Journey Back Official Website"
Colemanzone.com: A tribute to the classic 1960 MGM movie The Time Machine
The Time Machine - synopsis of film scenes
Turner Classic Movies description
Script (scifimoviepage.com)
Cinematographic analysis of The Time Machine

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The Time Machine (also known promotionally as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American time travel science fiction film in Metrocolor from MGM, produced and directed by George Pal, that stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. The film was based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells that was hugely influential on the development of science fiction.

An inventor in Victorian England constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future; once there, he discovers that mankind's descendants have divided into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi.

George Pal, who had earlier made a film version of Wells' The War of the Worlds (1953), always intended to make a sequel to The Time Machine, but he died before it could be produced; the end of Time Machine: The Journey Back functions as a sequel of sorts. In 1985 elements of this film were incorporated into the documentary The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal.

The Time Machine received an Oscar for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the future.

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the host, known as the "Time Traveler" in the script, arrived late - appearing in the dining room doorway, disheveled, exhausted, with a torn shirt and dirt on his face; he began an explanation of what had happened to him, with a flashback to their earlier dinner meeting five days earlier
at that time during another dinner get-together in his home, the traveler spoke of the possibility of movement within the 4th Dimension - Time ("The fourth dimension cannot be seen or felt"); he explained: "But when it comes to Time, we are prisoners"; he then unveiled from a box an invention that had been two years in the making - a miniature time machine - a "small experimental model"; he added: "To carry a man, a larger edition is needed" - to journey through time to either the past or the future; George pondered to himself: "Can man control his destiny? Can he change the shape of things to come?"
when he activated the small-scale model (with a cigar impersonating an individual seated on it) by pushing a tiny lever on the front control panel, it disappeared; George explained: "It worked.... It's still here. But it's no longer in the present. Do you realize, it's traveling through time. To the future, to be exact...Time changes space"; George announced he was planning to take a journey into the future; all the gentlemen scoffed (especially Hillyer) at the "contraption" when it vanished, except for Filby
after all of the gentlemen left, Philby remained behind for a moment, and expressed worries over George's state of mind and well-being, and strange preoccupations: "You've been behaving oddly for over a month now...You've changed, George, enormously"; George admitted he didn't care for the present very much, especially its rampant warfare and spread of weaponry: ("I don't much care for the time I was born into...I prefer the future"); Philby was concerned about his friend's ungodly tampering with time: "I have no desire to tempt the laws of Providence. And I don't think you should. It's not for man to trifle with....If that machine can do what you say it can, destroy it. Destroy it, George, before it destroys you!"; as the two parted, George told Philby to invite the entire group back for dinner in five days
George retreated to his laboratory (a converted greenhouse with glass windows) - the location of his full-scale 'Time Machine' - a duplicate of the miniature model; it had the same appearance as the smaller version - a red velvet Victorian seat with a futuristic control panel of levers, and behind the seat, a sled or sleigh-shaped mechanism with a large circular rotating clockwork disc (resembling a solar disc)
as the film progressed, there were multiple stops along the way in his 'time travel' journey to the future; there were a few predicted elements of the future that author Wells had alluded to in his novel: December 31, 1899 (earlier meeting, seen only in flashback), January 5, 1900 (dinner meeting 5 days later), September 13, 1917 (The Great War, or WWI), June 19, 1940 (WWII in Europe, the English "Blitz"), August 18, 1966 (air-raid warnings and underground shelters, during an atomic blast followed by a volcanic eruption), and October 802,701 (the far future)
at the start of his first journey, George seated himself in his time travel machine and pushed the crystalline lever forward (the time machine was crystal-powered); after advancing only a short distance in time (about 2 hours), he noticed differences in his environment (visualized through stop-motion animation and/or time-lapse photography) - the candle was shorter in inches; then he proceeded further ahead, watching the arc of the sun, and flowers progressing through their life cycle
as he went faster and pushed the lever further ahead, he noticed other more rapid developments over a series of days and weeks: the mannequin in the store window across the street changed styles and fashions (in voice-over): "I began to grow very fond of that mannequin. Maybe because, like me, she didn't age"
in the year 1917 (September), things drastically changed as the greenhouse windows were abruptly boarded up and it turned dark: ("Suddenly the light was gone"); George exited the time machine and noticed that in his adjoining house, the furnishings were covered and it was very dusty and full of cobwebs; outside, the exterior of the closed-up house was unkempt and overgrown with weeds, and it was fenced off with PRIVATE PROPERTY-KEEP OUT signs; out on the street, he mistook son James Filby (also Alan Young) for his father David; James informed him that his father had died in the war a year earlier; he also learned that "the inventor chap" from across the street disappeared "around the turn of the century," and that war had been raging between Britain and Germany since 1914; David had been the executor of the inventor's estate, but had refused to liquidate it - believing that the owner would eventually return
George returned to his house, removed the boards from the greenhouse windows, reseated himself, and proceeded further into the future; his next time-travel stop was in 1940 - due to an exploding bomb nearby; upset that another war was occurring, ("The war with Germany was still waging. Now in the air with flying machines. Then I realized the truth of the matter. This was a new war"), the disillusioned traveler decided to proceed further, and about the year 1942, his house was hit, flames shot up, and his home was "gone in an instant" - and he found himself in the open air
due to sounds of strange sirens and other loud noises, the traveler stopped his machine on August 18, 1966, and found himself in an open garden park area; he watched as people were hastily departing from their parked cars and running toward a nearby underground air-raid shelters for safety; he noticed a plaque erected in the park where his sundial had been positioned: "THIS PARK IS DEDICATED BY JAMES FILBY TO HIS FATHER'S DEVOTION FOR HIS FRIEND, GEORGE"; outside the Filby's Department Store, George noticed an elderly James in his mid-60s, one of the Civil Defence Wardens dressed in a silver plastic suit with white helmet, who was scurrying toward the shelter to take cover: ("We'd better be going before the mushrooms start sprouting"); although Filby remembered speaking to him in 1917, he then thought it had to be very unlikely: "That's impossible! You haven't changed. You're not a day older"; ignoring George's questions, he fled when he observed up in the sky: "An atomic satellite zeroing in!"
George was thrown to the ground by shockwaves from a blinding flash, followed by an explosion and a giant mushroom cloud on the horizon; the atomic blast destroyed the once-beautiful city, and molten lava flowed through the streets; George thought to himself (voice-over): "The labor of centuries, gone in an instant"; the bomb set off volcanic explosions and a massive, red-hot lava flow: ("Mother Earth, aroused by man's violence, responded with volcanic violence of her own. Only my speed through time saved me from being roasted alive and encased in stone forever"); he had no choice but to rush to his time-traveling machine and escape into the future
as he traveled onward through centuries of time, he prayed to be saved: ("I prayed, wondering how many centuries, how many eons must pass before the wind and rain could wear away the mountain that enclosed me"); he lit a march in the darkness to see the control panel spinning and passing through many hundreds of years ("I put my trust in time and waited for the rock to wear down around me"); suddenly, the rock was finally worn away, and blue sky with a lush landscape surrounded him; he declared: "I was free again"; he asked himself: "Thousands of centuries had passed, but the Earth had stayed green! There was no winter! No wars! Had man finally learned to control both the elements and himself? I had to stop and find out"
he had hurtled toward October 12, 802701; when he finally pulled the lever back too sharply, his time machine began to wildly spin and capsize, and he was tossed onto the ground; he noticed he had tumbled down in front of large metal doors - the base of a temple with a Sphinx-like head; he wandered into a magnificent green garden area with flowers (and devoid of weeds or briars); he was overjoyed: "Trees and vines laden with fruits of strange shapes and colors. Nature tamed completely, and more bountiful than ever before! At last, I'd found a paradise" - but he wondered if he was all alone: ("But it would be no paradise if it belonged to me alone")
he came across the gigantic ruins of a weathered and broken-down large structure with two sphinx statues on either side of a large flight of concrete stairs: ("Unrepaired for centuries! Maybe unlived in for as long"); inside were low tables (without seats but cushions for sitting on the floor) with white metal place-settings and centerpieces of exotic fruit; he called out: "Anybody here?" and his voice echoed; outside, as he continued to wander about apprehensively, he began to hear human voices, splashing water and laughter; he found people of the utopian future (youthful, carefree, and innocent-looking barefooted men and women in thin pastel-colored robes) who were swimming, sunbathing, romping, and playing in the sunshine: "So this is man's future, to bask in the sunlight, bathe in the clear streams and eat the fruits of earth with all knowledge of work and hardship forgotten"
suddenly, he heard screams from one of the drowning girls in the rough current, while other indifferent individuals looked on and completely ignored her plight or came to her rescue; when no one responded to his calls: "HELP HER!", George dived into the water and saved her; however, she didn't respond when he asked: "Are you alright?"; she appeared bewildered, unemotional, and lacking either gratitude or fear for being rescued; he couldn't understand why no one acknowledged his presence
afterwards, George watched as the oblivious young people in their multi-colored robes ran over to the Great Hall and entered; he was astonished and perplexed that they were completely uninterested in him, except for the girl he had saved; she came over to him on the steps and asked: "Why did you...come after me?"; to his surprise, she was also apathetic about his rescue of her, like the others, causing him to wonder: "That's a very curious attitude - a very curious world"; after he followed up: "Aren't you interested in who I am? Where I come from?", she answered: "Should I be?"; when he asked to speak to someone older, she replied: "There is no one older" - and he realized everyone was the same age; she gave him her name Weena (Yvette Mimieux), and the name of her race of small and delicate young people (known as the Eloi); he spelled the two words out in the dust of the steps; she was fearful of the dark and led him inside the Great Hall
through further questioning of Weena and the others, George realized that the Eloi were illiterate, emotionless, didn't value life, lacked inquisitiveness about life or learning, and had no government or set of laws; they also didn't work, and were somehow provided with their clothing and food; he expressed his interest in finding out her civilization and asked: "Do you have books?" and one of the young men answered affirmatively
he was led to a musty old library with shelves and shelves of books covered by dusty curtains; when he pulled one of the volumes from a shelf, the pages (and then the entire book) crumbled into ashes in his hands and fell to the floor; he reacted with rage for the disrespect and neglect shown to the books, and chastized the confused and apathetic lad for the utter lack of concern shown for the creation of historical works over thousands of years: "What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and re-creating so you can let it crumble to dust! A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what?! So you can swim and dance and play!"
George strode back into the Great Hall and announced his utter frustration with their society: "I'm going back to my own time! I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle, the hopeless future, but at least I can die among men!"; he marched back to his time machine, but was stunned that it was missing; parallel tracks (with half-human footprints next to them revealed it had been dragged inside the temple's locked doors; he also noticed some pale, indistinct figures observing and spying on him behind some bushes
Weena had followed him, to inform him that he was unable to open the metal doors: "No one opens it. Only the Morlocks"; he learned that she was clearly frightened of the underground-dwelling Morlocks whom they were forced to obey, when she told him: "They give us the food we eat and the clothes we wear. We must obey their command"; he commented on her childlike nature for being fearful of the dark - presumably because the Morlocks only came out at night
he suggested building a fire and await the morning before trying to enter the doors; as they gathered dry pieces of firewood, he reminisced about how his house and laboratory stood exactly where they were now; but he was clearly frustrated with what the future had revealed to him: "I had hoped to learn such a great deal. I hoped to take back the knowledge and the advancement that mankind had made. Instead, I find vegetables. The human race reduced to living vegetables"
as he spoke to her, she was dragged off screaming by one of the white-haired Morlock creatures into the bushes, and he again rescued her; he hoped the fire he had lit would keep them away; however, she cluelessly reached out into the fire, and he muttered: "No knowledge of fire. No books, huh"; then, he apologized for his outburst earlier against her people in the Great Hall: ("I am sorry I was angry with your people. I had no right to be"); he recognized in Weena a possible and daring spirit of self-sacrifice and inquiry: ("And you have that quality. I think all of your people have it, really. It just needs someone to reawaken it. I should like to try if you'll let me. Will you?"); she answered: "I do not understand you, but I believe you"
when he further asked her about the Morlocks, she couldn't answer; his questions about the past and future were simply answered: "There is no past....There is no future"; he was hopeful that he could rekindle their spark of emotion and interest in life: "The past, man's past, is mainly a grim struggle for survival. But there have been moments when a few voices have spoken up. And these rare moments have made the history of man, man's past, a glorious thing. I refuse to believe it's dead and gone. We've had our dark ages before. This is just another one of them. All it needs is for someone to show you the way out. I'm only a tinkering mechanic, but I'm sure there must be that hidden spark in one of your people. If only I can kindle that spark, my coming here will have some meaning"
the next morning to find another way to retrieve his machine, Weena and George surveyed open concrete domed structures through which ominous sounds of giant throbbing machines emerged; Weena mentioned learning about the machines and life underground through "rings that talk"; she led him to a green-walled ancient museum (down a corridor inside the Great Hall) to demonstrate the rings, that she said explained "things no one here understands"; by spinning them, recordings briefly told the de-evolving history of the Earth - marked by continual warfare - (voice of Paul Frees) "The war between the East and West, which is now in its 326th year, has at last come to an end....The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs that it can no longer be breathed. There is no place on this planet that is immune...Some chose to take refuge in the great caverns and find a new way of life far below the Earth's surface. The rest of us decided to take our chances in the sunlight - small as those chances might be"
in voice-over, George told what he had learned from the rings: "From the talking rings, I learned how the human race divided itself and how the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks began. By some awful quirk of fate, the Morlocks had become the masters and the Eloi their servants. The Morlocks maintained them and bred them like, like cattle, only to take them below when they reached maturity. Which explained why there were no older people among them"
George was determined to enter one of the domed structures (a well or air shaft) to go below and search for his time machine; Weena was worried: "You won't come back!," but he reassured her: "I'll be back"; she gave him a pink blossom that he put in his pocket; after partially descending, he heard loud air-raid sirens from the Sphinx-like structure blasting a deafening noise; he reappeared on the surface and watched as the Eloi marched expressionless and trance-like from the Great Hall and other locations straight toward the structure to enter into the metal gates that were now open; they were being summoned to their deaths, taking advantage of their instinctual response to the air-raid sirens to seek underground cover
frantically, George searched for Weena but was unable to reach her and save her before the metal doors closed and locked behind her, when the sirens subsided: ("It is all clear"); after persistent questioning, the Eloi could not tell him what would happen to "the ones who went below"; one man answered: "They never come back. Nobody can bring them back" before everyone calmly dispersed
he returned to the domed structure and climbed back down into the rocky shaft to the base floor of an underground cavern; he constructed a makeshift torch, and then after searching around and finding throbbing machines, he was dismayed to locate a feasting room - a depository of human skeletons and remains providing evidence of carnivorous cannibalism; he reacted (in voice-over); "So this was the destiny of the Eloi. They were being bred by the Morlocks who had degenerated into the lowest form of human life"; he watched as a group of Eloi (including Weena) was forced to march in single-file by whip-wielding Morlocks (half-human and half-ape creatures with clawed hands, blinking and glowing eyes, savage teeth, greenish-blue skin, and long white hair on their heads and arms)
he was able to protect the group of Eloi by fending off the Morlocks with a lit match to blind them; they were fearful of fire and bright light; he also fought them off with a burning torch, as he attempted to guide the Eloi to safety; he also brawled with the monstrous creatures using his fists before he was able to lead the long line of Eloi on a rocky stairway-ledge out of the cavern and up the well entrance to the surface; he encouraged the Eloi to toss piles of dried wood back into the wells, feeding the flames already burning below, and causing explosions that collapsed the wells and swallowed up the entire cave area and obliterated many of the Morlocks
George described in voice-over the partial victory he had won to free the Eloi from fear, but that he felt trapped in their very different world: ("Another night was coming, but this night, no Eloi needed to fear. The underworld of the Morlocks was gone and so was the life of leisure for the Eloi. But then what of me? I was imprisoned in a world in which I just did not belong"; he explained to Weena that to the people of his own time, he could tell them "about the sorrow and the happiness that the future has in store for them. Maybe they could learn from it. Or could they?"; he assured her that she was his only love: "No one like you"
as he was telling her - and about to kiss her: "Oh, Weena, I wish we could go back to my time, or even to the time before that when the world was young. We could be so very happy....", they were interrupted by excited Eloi voices, reporting that the temple's Sphinx-like statue was broken in half and that the metal doors had opened - revealing his time machine; George raced inside to prepare to travel back in time, but Weena hesitated too long and the doors shut behind him; it was revealed to be a trap - he was briefly attacked by a few Morlocks before he was able to activate the time machine, and return to January 5, 1900; at first however, as he watched a dead Morlock deteriorate through time before his eyes, he realized he was advancing into the future rather than going back in time, and he corrected himself
due to the different positioning of the time machine by the Morlocks, George found that when he had arrived home on January 5, 1900, the mechanism was outside in his garden area; as he stumbled into his home, the flashback ended, and he was seated at the dinner table with his guests at 9:20 pm
his dinner guests were skeptical, calling his tale "preposterous," "ridiculous," and "a good yarn"; even George admitted he could hardly believe what had happened to him: ("Take it as a lie if you wish. I scarcely believe it myself, now that I'm back"); to prove the account of his travels, he showed everyone the still-fresh exotic pink flower that Weena had given him, but they were still disbelieving and soon left, except possibly for amateur botanist Filby; as Filby was leaving, George thanked him for his future faith and dedication in him: "Thanks for being such a good friend, David. Always"
in the film's speculative epilogue, after briefly leaving, the concerned Filby returned to the house, but realized after hearing the start-up noises of the time machine in the greenhouse that his best friend was taking another time-travel adventure (tracks of the machine revealed it had been dragged back inside from the garden); he began to ponder George's fate with housekeeper Mrs. Watchett: "Weena was standing here when he last saw her. Right here! The same space in a different time. So he dragged his heavy machine back in here, scratching the floor so he could appear outside the Sphinx again and help the Eloi build a new world. Build a new world for himself. Right where he left her"
David speculated that George wouldn't return "empty-handed to try to rebuild a civilization without a plan" - and had taken three books with him (noticed missing from the shelves); when asked if he might return some day: "Mister Filby, do you think he'll ever return?", Filby answered (with the film's last line): "One cannot choose but wonder. You see, he has all the time in the world"

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The time machine (1960).

Year : 1960
Director: George Pal
Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

I thought it would be only appropriate if we began the Movie Match-Up of time travel movies with an adaptation of the very first time travel story ever written… but since it is excruciatingly hard to find a film about King Revaita of Hindu folklore, I’ve settled on this.

Of course time travel stories are nearly as old as fiction itself, and even Rip van Winkle and A Christmas Carol fall into the genre. However, our modern concepts of time travel and a time machine proper come from H.G. Wells’ 1895 novella The Time Machine , where an unnamed time traveler goes to the year 802,701 and discovers some unsettling truths about future society.

George Pal’s The Time Machine was made in 1960, and it does show in places. Just look at the film’s opening.

The time traveler is given more character than in the book, although a lot of this simply comes from the fact that he’s played by Rod Taylor. Taylor may never have been a major movie star, but he always commanded the room he was in, bringing his resonant voice and signature charm to every scene. If I merely read the script of this film, I would probably criticize the over-narration of the lead, but when Rod Taylor’s narrating, I let it go. The time traveler is also named George here, but a look at the actual time machine reveals his full name to be H. George Wells, which is a nice little Easter egg.

On New Years’ Eve 1899, George has four friends over to show off his newest invention. The most skeptical and outspoken of these is played by Sebastian Cabot, who brings a lot to his few scenes. Like Taylor, Cabot was an actor who exuded charisma simply by being on screen. George’s best friend, David Filby, is played by Alan Young, who portrays him as a better friend than anyone has ever deserved.

He also has two other friends, who I think are just happy to be there.

George shows them a miniature display of his time machine, which of course all of them except Filby scoff at, even when it disappears into the future. Thankfully, these scenes are not rushed, and we get a lot of atmosphere and build-up before we see the actual time machine around the 25-minute mark.

Now is there any practical reason for the machine to look like this? Of course not, but it has such a colorful, unique look to it that it’s become iconic. Plus, George is shown to be an inventor of clocks, which similarly only share one purpose, but come in all colors and designs.

As opposed to the book where the time traveler goes 800,000 years into the future without stopping in another year, the film takes its time, first going hours, then days, then years into the future. This mainly exists to show off some time-lapse photography, which was groundbreaking in 1960. While the book was written in 1895 and set presumably in the same time, the movie has the advantage of being written “in the future.” George starts in 1899, but gets to see World War I and World War II.

The first year he gets out is 1915, where he mistakes James Filby (also Alan Young) for his father David, and tragically discovers that David Filby died in the war. He skips right through World War II and stops in 1966 where World War III, a nuclear war of course, is taking place. George meets James Filby, now an old man, who tries to rush George into a bomb shelter.

Thankfully not everyone in the near future is wearing these strange metallic clothes, but it’s kind of distracting, and it is only six years later. Even more distracting are the effects used in the bombing of London.

The bombing causes volcanoes to explode as well, because… reasons, and eventually (after way too long) George gets back into his time machine. For millennia, he is encased in a rock wall, until it erodes and civilization is finally rebuilt again. Just like in the book, he finally stops at 802,701 A.D.

Aside from a few obviously painted backgrounds, the future sets are really good. You immediately get taken in by the look and feel of these scenes.

Although most of the future looks like a paradise, there is this closed-off building with a foreboding sphinx-like head, which has a very creative design. The sphinx does not really resemble the Eloi or the Morlocks, the two creatures that live in this future, but it perhaps shows something of this world’s past that once existed.

George first meets the Eloi, a youthful culture that he initially assumes have created this paradise. He is quite proud that this is what humanity has turned into, until he sees them ignore one of their own, Weena (Yvette Mimieux), when she is drowning. Yeah, I know they’re supposed to be gender-less but come on.

The characterization of the Eloi and Morlcoks here is both very similar to the book and very different. On the surface, it appears to be about the same—the Eloi live above ground and reap the benefits of the Edenic world, while the Morlocks live underground and breed the Eloi like cattle.

In Wells’ novel, when the time traveler first arrives in the future, he believes that perfect Communism has been achieved, with no conflict whatsoever. However, he soon finds out that the Morlocks are the working class, forming an underground uprising (literally) against the upper-class Eloi. Now, to be fair, they are succeeding, but they are far from finished. For what it’s worth, Wells himself was a socialist, but not a Communist.

The film version is not making a statement on Communism though, but rather nuclear war. This dates it, yes, but I think it’s in the spirit of the book. Hear me out. The book was written in 1895, when Communism was all the buzz. Wells envisioned a far distant future where this was still being played out. In the 1950s and ’60s, everyone was talking about nuclear war and how it was going to wipe out mankind. This film envisions a future in which nuclear war has shaped every aspect of life.

When George inquires about history, Weena shows him rings that play recordings of how mankind de-evolved into the Eloi and Morlocks.

Sure, this is a way for the film to quickly explain the history up until this point, but it’s such a unique idea that it makes you forget that. It also helps that they’re voiced by Paul Frees, who makes the dark subject matter sound even more ominous. What could have been a scene of pure exposition turns into one of the most memorable scenes of the whole film.

George learns that after the nuclear war, some remained underground while others went above. Presumably, the hundreds of thousands of years turned each into the creatures they now are. He calls it a “quirk of fate” that the Morlocks are the ones in control.

The implications of a post-nuclear world are taken even further in one of the film’s best images. At night, the Morlocks call the Eloi underground to eat them with an air raid siren . I have to admit this is pretty ingenious. After years and years of nuclear war and paranoia, the human mind has developed an instinct to automatically go underground when it hears the air raid siren. One of the Eloi who survives even says, “It is all clear.”

Just like Wells, director George Pal and screenwriter David Duncan are taking something from their own time, and creating a future based on that. It’s like if today, someone did an adaptation where the time traveler goes into the distant future and discovers that every movie, TV show, and book is a remake or adaptation.

Due to the changes from the book, and the fact that this a movie from 1960, the lines of good and evil are much clearer. The Morlocks are clearly the bad guys, and the Eloi are the sympathetic ones who just need a helping hand at restarting civilization. While the Eloi are shown here as the “more human” of the two, I give the film credit for giving the Morlocks some human qualities.

The Morlocks are defeated with fire for the time, which is much more heroic than the book’s account of the traveler accidentally starting a forest fire and killing Weena. George’s machine re-appears, and although it is a trap set by the Morlocks, he escapes in time. Returning to the present, George recounts his story to his friends, but then takes off again with three books to help the Eloi rebuild society and defeat the Morlocks for good. The final scene between George and Filby, where both know they may not see the other again but won’t vocalize it, definitely leaves an impact.

A direct adaptation of Wells’ novel would be both very short and probably pretty boring. It’s a great novel, but an accurate film version would not leave the viewer satisfied at all. I think this movie was trying to be what we today call a “popcorn movie,” while still going after some deeper themes. The nuclear war stuff is a bit heavy-handed, but there are still some clever things done with the material.

This is a film that clearly had a lot of love put into it, and it makes for some great escapist entertainment. Russell Garcia’s main theme is marvelous, and the music that plays when the audience first sees the time machine is both adventurous and ominous. The few bad special effects aside, the sets are well done, and even the time-lapse photography has its charms. I’ve actually gone back to this film many times through the years, and I’ve always enjoyed it for what it is. Let’s see the final score.

Story (20/30 Points)

The time traveler in the book was more of an observer, and actually had a negative impact on the events. George is more of a dashing hero here, and the very simple story is expanded just a bit. The added arc with David Filby’s death is rightfully heartbreaking.

Cast (26/30 Points)

Rod Taylor and Alan Young are both wonderful in their respective parts, bringing characters who may have been thin on paper to life. Yvette Mimieux also does well as the simple-minded Weena, and Sebastian Cabot is a good intellectual foil to George and Filby.

Experience (19/25 Points)

The London bombing scene is just awful, and some of the painted backgrounds stand out. That said, Pal does a good job of building atmosphere in both 1899 and 802,701, and the music is incredible.

Originality (13/15 Points)

It’s a bit tough to judge this category for an adaptation, but the steam-punk design of the time machine and the looming sphinx show a lot of creativity. I know the sphinx was in the book too, but the image just sticks with you here. The talking rings were completely original, and they fit right in.

Final Score: 78%

It is an imperfect film, but the charms far outweigh the flaws. If you’re not a fan of the Old Hollywood-style of film making, you might not agree, but for me it’s a perfectly enjoyable film. It says something that there wasn’t another theatrical film version until 2002, and… well I’ll withhold my feelings until we get there.

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These days, we take time travel for granted. In movies, TV shows, books and comics, it has become an almost boringly predictable plot device. But the idea had to start with someone, and that someone might as well be H.G. Wells, whose absurdly fertile imagination produced the books War of the Worlds , The Invisible Man , The Island of Dr. Moreau and 1895’s The Time Machine . The 1960 version, starring Rod Taylor (let’s not speak of the 2002 Guy Pearce remake, O.K.?), hewed closely to Wells’ original story. A Victorian-era inventor creates the titular device, travels way too far into the future and discovers a world populated by two races: the underground-dwelling Morlocks and the above-ground, docile Eloi.

The film’s time machine looks absurd — a steampunk-ish lounge chair with lots of colorful lights — and the dialogue …let’s just call it less than original (“If that machine can do what you say it can, destroy it, George, before it destroys you!). But The Time Machine does have one thing to offer: the always hilarious sight of blond men in tunics, rocking bowl cuts. It’s like the kids from Village of the Damned , but all grown up.

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Where is the Time Machine from the Time Machine? I’ve always loved the Time Machine released in 1960. This movie is probably my favorite time travel movie. The prop was perfect that they created for this great movie. The movie was based on the novel by H.G. Wells, it was directed by George Pal, starred Rod Taylor, Alan Young, and Yvette Mimieux, and featured Oscar-winning special effects.

Time Machine prop itself was co-designed by George Pal and MGM art director William Ferrari. Pal incorporated the look of a horse-drawn sleigh, inspired from the winter sleigh rides of his youth.

After the film was completed the Time Machine prop was placed into storage by MGM. In the early 70s MGM held an auction that included the famous Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz and the Time Machine. The Time Machine sold for between eight and ten thousand dollars to the owner of a traveling show.

Film historian Bob Burns tried to buy it at the auction but came up short. Around 5 years later a friend of a friend of Bob’s thought he saw the Time Machine Prop at a thrift shop in Orange California. Bob hurried over and with great excitement checked out the prop. There is was…The Time Machine in a thrift shop. It was not in good shape though. The chair was gone, the pods were broken, but the huge gold disc was in great shape.

When he got home Bob called George Pal (the director) when he got home and told him he had the Time Machine. George had given Bob the blueprints to the machine and Bob used these to restore the machine.

It only took Bob Burns and a crew 4 weeks to restore the machine and it was used in Bob’s annual Halloween show for 1976.

The original Time Machine has made appearances in other productions, including Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”, “Gremlins, Mike Jittlov’s short “Time Tripper” (1978, and used within his feature film “The Wizard of Speed and Time” in 1989) and the documentary on the making of “The Time Machine” called “The Journey Back” (1993).

Bob Burns owns a ton of movie props. I would LOVE to tour his basement. He also owns the original King Kong .

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You come up with the most fascinating bits and pieces! Well done!

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Thank you Bruce! I love useless trivia!

Very neat. Yes that would be a cool prop to have.

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It’s a fun movie and yea…I would love to have that prop!

Do you remember the episode of “The Big Bang Theory” where the professors bought it, thinking it was a scale model? They finally get it into their apartment, blocking the stairs on Penny, who had to get to work and was already running late. When she gets home, early because she lost her station at The Cheesecake Factory and furious at the guys, she tells them it “looked like something Elton John would drive through the Everglades.” That might have been the best line in the 12 seasons the show was on.

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I don’t know that Bob Burns would have lent out the machine for Big Bang Theory, considering how it was manhandled. I suspect this was the duplicate Time Machine made about 25 years ago for a short lived sci-fi museum (in Sacramento?) and which now appears at some conventions.

That is what was stated but I yes I agree…It was probably a duplicate that Burns had

Wow! I’d heard about this guy acquiring the Time Machine, but not how. George Pal was one of my heroes growing up, and I got to talk with him a bit at a college George Pal fest. I later had my own brief experience with that marvelous device. https://mitchteemley.com/2021/12/21/we-have-all-the-time-in-the-world/

I love that post Mitch…that is deep! I love it.

Thanks, Max!

I recall paying a Saturday-matinee buck to see that movie in the mid-1970s. It fascinated me how the slow rotation of a flat metallic disk with strange markings on it could somehow enable time travel and in both directions.

I’m so sorry…my spam filter caught this. They must have ramped it up to high! I really got lost in this movie…I’ve seen it a number of times and showed my son when he was young…now him and I will watch it yearly.

I love the actual time machine in the movie too. I love retro futurism. Like in really old movies and the way they thought that spaceships or computers would look in the future. Everything was all bulky with all these gears and wheels and stuff. It’s so cool the way the time machine looks like it’s part Victorian furniture and part machine. lol. That is so awesome.

I like the retro futurism also. I’ve seen some 60s and 70s outlooks on the future and they were basically a mod design in some respects. Egg chairs and fiberglass tables with cool designs.

lol. And lots of push-button sliding doors. For some reason the 60s imagined that there would be push-button sliding doors everywhere.

They did… there is one show of the Night Gallery that is worth the short watch. It’s called “Tell David” and it was made in 1971. It’s fascinating because they foretold GPS maps, techno music, and a video phone.

That sounds cool. I’ll look for it. The only Night Gallery I remember ever seeing is the one with Joan Crawford as the blind lady who has an operation and gets her vision back for just a few hours but then there’s a blackout in New York City and she can’t see anything. I really like that one.

Oh I love that one…that was one of three in the premiere. Those three were some of the best episodes of Night Gallery.

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English scientist living near the end of the 19th century invents time travel machine and uses it to travel into various periods of the future. Rollicking version of H.G. Wells' classic cautionary tale boasts Oscarwinning special effects . Remade in 1978. 103m/C VHS, DVD . Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Whit Bissell, Sebastian Cabot , Alan Young, Paul Frees, Bob Barran, Doris Lloyd; D: George Pal; W: David Duncan; C: Paul Vogel; M: Russell Garcia.

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"Parts of it are colorful and imaginative, but the film flattens out toward the end." Dave Kehr : Chicago Tribune
"This smashing science-fiction adaptation of H.G. Wells's famous novel has more creativity in every frame than most latter-day rip-offs have in their entirety." TV Guide
"The meat of Wells’ novel is sacrificed in favor of all-out spectacle, but in that respect the movie works marvelously." Entertainment Weekly
"The drama, for all its invention, is creaky and a bit passé. And the mood, while delicately wistful, is not so flippant or droll as it might be in a fiction as fanciful and flighty as this one naturally is." Bosley Crowther : The New York Times
"An old-fashioned adventure that tries to remain as true to the original text as it could with an excellent score, great special effects, and a story that keeps you watching" IGN
"The social comment of the original has been historically refined to encompass such plausible eventualities as the physical manifestation of atomic war weapons. But the basic spirit of Wells' work has not been lost." Variety Staff : Variety
"The quaint time machine and Oscar-winning special effects hold one's interest initially, but the overall effect is one of glossy emptiness." Time Out
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The Time Machine ★★★ 1960English scientist living near the end of the 19th century invents time travel machine and uses it to travel into various periods of the future. Rollicking version of H.G. Wells' classic cautionary tale boasts Oscarwinning special effects. Remade in 1978. 103m/C VHS, DVD . Source for information on The Time Machine 1960: VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever dictionary.
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