The Time Machine (1960)

The Time Machine (sometimes also known as H.G. Wells ' The Time Machine ) is a 1960 American science fiction film from directed by George Pal and starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux.

The screenplay is based on the story the time machine by h. g. Wells from 1895.

The film was a commercial success in cinemas and spent $ 1.610.000 in the US and 1,000,000 beyond. The budget amounted to $ 750,000. The special effects of the film was awarded an Oscar in 1961.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.In the movie is called the time traveler, which is called in the book never by name, George. He lives in the London of 1899. Together with his friends David Filby and Dr. Philip Hillyer he discusses the concept of a fourth dimension along which one can move through time. He shows them a small machine that can travel through time according to him really. The machine disappears without trace after being activated. However, the others do it as a cheap trick, and leave.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Production
 * 3.1 prehistory
 * 3.2 Scenario
 * 3.3 Actors
 * 3.4 special effects
 * 3.5 Recordings
 * 4 Follow-up
 * 5 Influence
 * 5.1 Time after Time
 * 5.2 The Time Machine (2002)
 * 5.3 Parody
 * 6 awards and nominations
 * 7 Sources
 * 8 external links

However, what they don't know is that George has already built a larger version of the machine, which can send 1 man through time. He decides to test him that evening. His first stop is 13 september 1917. There he meets the son of David Filby, James Filby. He tells George that his father has been killed in the first world war. George then travels ahead to 19 June 1940, where he beholds the Second World War . Then he travels to18 August 1966. Here he is confronted by a now old James Filby. He warns George that there is a nuclear war has broken out between America and the Soviet Union, and that anyone looking for a hiding place. At that time an explosion sounds and lava flows in the street. George start fast machine and can get away just in time for the lava Burns him. However, now the lava cools and forms a solid block of stone around the machine.Consequently, George forced to travel to a point further ahead in the future where the stone naturally perished.

Eventually he stops on October 12, 802.701. Here he is greeted by a race of humanoids who call themselves the Eloi. To Georges disgust to have no Government or laws these Eloi, and also virtually nothing of the original human curiosity. The only Eloi who shows interest in the time traveler is a woman named Weena. George is planning to leave for his own time indignant, but discovers that his machine is gone.

Weena takes George to a small museum, where you can see information about a centuries-long nuclear war. After this war, mankind has divided into two groups: those who decided to leave the bomb shelters and those who chose to stay in the shelters. The people who left the cellars are now the Eloi, while the people who remained underground evolved into a race of bestial Humanoids called the Morlocks. They can no longer against daylight and exhibit itself therefore only at night. According to Weena they have Georges machine included.

That night tells George Weena something about his past. A Morlock falls to them, but George can dislodge him. The next day, when George wants to investigate further the Morlocks, suddenly sounds a siren. If walk intrance Weena and the other Eloi direction an old building to shelter for a non-existent attack. Once in the building closing the doors and chairs the Group locked up.

George climbs down through a vent hole in the ground, and ends up in an artificial cave. There he finds human skeletons, and realizes that the Morlock the Eloi as food habits. Knowing that they are afraid of slightly used George to keep the Morlocks on away matches. George, the captured Eloi, and frees them. Together they cross all the flammable material in the cave on fire to dislodge the Morlocks. George leads the Eloi through the vent holes in the top, after which they cave collapse.

George finally finds his machine, and is getting ready for departure. Just as he leaves, a Morlock grabs his machine fixed. George travels to the future, so that the Morlock who holds his machine gets older and perishes to dust. George then travels back to 5 January 1900 to tell his story to his friends. Only Filby believes him.

After Georges friends are left, hurry Filby to the cellar of the House. However, he is too late, George has been left. His housekeeper, Mrs. Watchett, tells Filby that George just three books has taken on his journey.When asked if she will ever see him again they know neither an answer. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===For History<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Pal was already long time known for his work in the field of animation. In the 1940s he got as many as seven nominations for an Oscar for his various puppetoonfilms (short films with dolls) 1944 he even got an honorary Oscar for these movies. Also science-fiction had his interest and in 1953 he scored a hit movie with a film adaptation of H. G. Wells ' book The War of The Worlds. This film was also seen by Frank Wells, the son of h. g. Wells. Frank saw in George Pal's The Time Machine man who could also make films and together with Pal he went to Paramount, which had produced War of the Worlds. However, this film society wanted to not venture to its scenario of The Time Machine, so he went to England to the British MGM studio. Here had Pal still pleasant memories of the time he filmed Tom Thumb there. Pal was still good friends with the head of the British MGM studio Matthew Raymond. Raymond saw something in the plan to The Time machine and put together a budget meant to film. ===Scenario<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">George Pal had been around since May 1955 with screenwriter David Duncan worked on the screenplay for The Time machine. Duncan and Pal stayed true to the story of Wells but modified have some issues. The unnamed time traveler from the story, got into the scenario a name: ' George '. (On the time machine that can be seen in the film is also a picture with it, manufactured by h. George Wells). Further, the screenwriters the cynical comment from Wells on the British class society road. Many critics see the subdivision of the future world in the monstrous Morlocks and the Eloi lovely looking even if Wells ' comments on that class society. The working class would have gone underground and the affluent rich would continue to participate on the working class. The cynicism emerges as it appears that the Morlocks eat the Eloi. What Pal and Duncan also adapted was the trip to the future. In the film, three stops created: 1917, 1940 and 1966 (where the screenwriters had the advantage that they, unlike Wells in 1895, how the world would look like in 1917 and 1940. In the story of Wells the time traveler makes more stops, such as in a future where he is threatened by giant crabs and 7 million years in the future where life seems to exist only black amorphous life forms. The rest of the story, however, remains maintained. The time traveler arrives in the future in the year 802.701 and notice that the world is divided into two peoples, the cheerful but passive Eloi and the Morlocks who live below ground but industrious cannibalistic. ===Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sol Siegel worked with producer George Pal to the design of the production. There was a big problem, the budget. There was so little money available that one had to reduce considerably the wishes. Pal wanted to fill in the role of time traveler by an older, more experienced actor and thought of Paul Scofield, Michael Rennie or James Mason. But he did not have enough budget to pay for these actors. Eventually he hired the still relatively unknown Australian Rod Taylor in. Additional advantage of opting for a younger actor was that Taylor better to could go with the athletic aspects of the role. Taylor suggested to the young actress Shirley Knightin rent for the role of Weena, but Pal was made Knightniet suitable. Instead, he chose the young actress Yvette Mimieux. 17-year-old Mimieux stood at MGM under contract, but the studio had just let her know that she did not want to renew the contract. The movie would be good for the actress unpack, Mimieux got a new contract by the great success and became one of the stars of MGM. ===Special effects<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">George Pal understood like no other that the success of The Time Machine would be largely dependent on the special effects. An important part of these effects was the time machine itself. The MGM art director Bill Ferrari developed the machine for the movie. The machine he developed was later also used in Time Tripper, The Wizard of Speed and Time and Gremlins. Ferrari joined the basic design from the sled, the favourite means of transport from the youth of George Pall, with the underlying idea that the time traveler ' by the time it would glide '. In The book "The films of George Pal" then the sled itself reminds Pal that Ferrari went dress up. He started with a Barber Chair. A chair such as those by hairdressers was used around 1900. Then he devised the control instruments on the front of the machine, after which something had to be found to overcome the void behind the Barber Chair was and also something that the movement had to suggest. Ferrari came up with the idea to a large wheel, a kind of rad to sit down there. Thus was born little by little the now iconic image of the time machine. After the film production was the scaled-down model of the time machine by George Pal included. Years later it went lost in a fire. The large model was sold in 1971, after which it ended up in a safe in a junk shop. In 1976 film historian Bob Burns bought the time machine of this shop for $ 1000 and started on the restoration. Because for close up shots, the barbers Chair and the Control Panel had been removed, these parts had to be replaced. In collaboration with the cinematographer of the film by George Pal Paul Bird was a light schedule designed to depict the time travel. For the daylight shots became a filter with clear gel used, a purple gel before dawn, amber for dusk and a blue gel for the night scenes. The shooting was dubbed with a six-metre-wide circular shutter that could turn at different speeds so as to stimulate the movement of the Sun, for example, by the roof of the greenhouse. Bird also uses mattes (paintings on glass which is a part of the camera lens cover) and different backgrounds that were printed on the double images of Rod Taylor in his time machine. In the scenes where the volcano erupts and lava steams through the streets, the people of the special effects used a mixture of porridge with red and orange colored food. The mixture covered slow the set and also a separate miniature set. The Morlocks formed a separate challenge. In the story, they are described as bald men with an intense pale skin, but Pal found that too little convincing. Along with William Turtle who devised the filmmake up did Pal green skin made of latex and the large masks with the glowing eyes. ===Recordings<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It was filmed between 25 May till 30 June 1959 and George Pal had equal problems with Yvette Mimieux. The actress until January 5 pm and if not yet whole days actually participate. They in addition had hardly experience on a film set and still had to learn a lot. Pal had grind to the constraint that Mimieux had because of her age and let her just join in with the rest of the actors. To his pleasure, he saw how the actress grew during the shooting and getting better went acting. At the end of the turn period he decided to do some recordings from the beginning about even with a better playing Mimieux. All recordings were made in the studio of Culver City, California. ==Sequel<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the success of the film in cinemas George Pal had plans for a sequel. One of the possibilities was the idea to the time traveler and sending in the future, Weena further into the world of crabs. He made various scenarios in at MGM, but which were rejected. In 1993, the film was a sequel in the form of a film/documentary titled Time Machine: The Journey Back, directed by Clyde Lucas. In the film tells actor Michael j. Fox about his experience with time travel as a result of the Back to the Future film cycle while Rod Taylor, Alan Young and Whit Bissell to show up in their original roles in a part of the film written David Duncan, the original screenwriter of the film. ==Influence<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Time after Time<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Time After Time from 1979 Malcolm Dowell plays the role of h. g. Wells. His time machine is stolen by Jack the Ripper and Wells pursues the murderer to the San Francisco of the 1970s. Nicholas Meyer directed the film and next to McDowell speekde Mary steenbergen the lead role. ===The Time Machine (2002)<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="722" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2002, the great-grandson of H.G. Wells, Simon Wells a new version of The Time Machine with Guy Pearce and starring Mark Addy ===Parody<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">"The Nerdvana Annihilation", an episode of the tv series The Big Bang Theory buy one of the protagonists a replica of the original time machine from the movie in the expectation that it is a thumbnail. However, it appears to be a model at full size. In a dream scene sees one of the stars is also threatened by the Morlocks in their original equipment from the movie. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * In 1961 won The Time Machine a for best visual effects Oscar .
 * That same year, the film was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.