@Scott Allen Speaking of time traveling to do rip-offs, Roger Corman in 1957 journeyed to 1977 to rip-off "Star Wars'' & came back to make his ''War Of The Satellites" released in 1958. He never paid the rights to "Star Wars'' the cheap skate !
@H. G. Wells The soundtrack is beautiful and fits the film. I think it should be made available to own in a new release of the movie, on a Blu Ray version or something like for a anniversary, that would make it a must have collectable. ☺
One of the things I remember about this movie was the way the style of clothes changed in the clothing store window to show the years passing. That was this movie, wasn’t it?
It was a very important part of the movie, the Time traveller noticed the womens skirts getting shorter and shorter over decades, he also mentions his affinity with the female mannequin, who like him was never aging.
I'm surprised also, special F/x are normally expensive, f/x from the start to the end film, no location shots, everything have to be made, I seem to remember, that the time machine prop, was the most expensive film prop to make at that time, I mite be thing of a later version of the film though?
The 2002 version suffered because of the very times in which it was made, its story led nowhere. The BBC is making a close adaptation of The War Of The Worlds. Hope that they will do the same for The Time Machine.
When you saw it for the first time, did you see it at a drive-in, like I did, in the 1960s? We also saw at a drive-in, " Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".It seemed so realistic, with the whole sky on fire, I thought it really WAS like that ( no, "Time Machine" didn't scare me, I thought it was just very well done).
I love this movie - and have, since I was a child. The Morlocks freaked me out, but the story and the visuals were fantastic. I also loved Rod Taylor in 'The Birds'. I always enjoyed him as an actor - he brought a sense of humor and of urgency to his roles.
When this came out I was 9 years old. My childhood friend Judy and I were dropped off one sunny day at the Fox theater in Riverside California. I remember us feeling kind of 'grown up' to be able to attend it by ourselves. Not having any access to color motion pictures except at a theater or drive in made it more special. I have remained a great fan of this movie all of my life,and will remain so. Thanks for the memories !............
Thank you for this loving tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time. I love how at the end, George returns to the future to be with Weena... taking three books with him (as Filby discovers). Filby asking George's housekeeper which three books are missing... she answering she does not know... and the viewer being left to imagine for themselves which three books they might take in George's situation... is one of the great, thoughtful film endings of all time.
I would imagine that one would be the Bible, another a dictionary perhaps, and the third a history book? Those are the books I would bring, but the Bible definitely.
@@edithlewis9330 The last thing future civilisation needs are colonials from the past trying to propagate their religion - but I guess that fits with the era that The Time Machine takes place in. With any hope, the Eloi would find if silly and throw it away or think that it's a funny comedy. A character written by Mr Wells as an engineer would I suspect be more inclined to bring with him books on science, mathematics or engineering. These are universals and not tools for one culture to overtake another.
When I saw the movie on TV with my mom, we a discussion on the 3 books and which 3 we would take. We both agreed it be more how-to or text book style than anything else.
@@edithlewis9330 .........The one with John Beck did exactly that, peppered with some Mormon propaganda, because that was the film studio and source of the funding.
Jonny, I loved Forbidden Planet, The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. Having been born in 1942 and being a Science Fiction/Fantasy/ Horror fan my whole life, those films really made my day as a youngster. I have never forgotten the memory coins, or the or Robbie or the Flying tripod machines. The Thing was my other go to at the time, the remake was truer to Campbell's Story "Who Goes There" but I preferred my imagination to the Technicolor gore of the remake. I saw many others which you have reviewed, thanks for the insights and the memories. Frederick (Rik) Spector
The first time I saw "The Time Machine" I was about 10 yrs. old. It was showing at a theatre just down the block from my grandmother's. The admission fee, believe it or not, was 10 cents. I sat in a front-row seat and never took my eyes off the screen except to grab a handful of popcorn and a slurp of my drink. I think a box of popcorn and a drink were also 10 cents. Oh, the good ole days! I am now 72 and reminisce about my childhood movie days all the time. Thanks again for the memories!
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab That Anthony Perkins death scene! The Black Hole is one of those films I can fault all day long, but love it anyway. Plenty of silly and superficial elements for the popcorn chompers, yet with so many compelling moments and something thoughtful underneath it all.
A great movie that was 60 years ahead of it's Time, literally. Rod Taylor was fantastic in it, and so was the story. A true classic, that means as much for us all tomorrow, as it did yesterday.
I always considered this movie in the quality range of that period with “The day the Earth Stood Still”, “War of the Worlds”, and “Forbidden Planet”. I first saw it in Jr High School in 1967, they would show ~20 min of it for several days at lunch time in the school auditorium. Great memories…
Oh my God! It's all come rushing back! I read the Classics Illustrated comic of TTM while on vacation with my parents at a motel in Franconia Notch NH. I must have been 7 or 8. Did not sleep for days.
Great Mini-Doc of one of my favorite child hood Science Fiction Movies. I have seen it many times and never get tired of it. Yvette stops your heart she is so beautiful~!!!
Favorite scenes were the sound effects with that GREAT VOICE from the talking rings, the toy model disappearing in the beginning, and George's goodbye scene in the snowfall with his friend Philby at the end: "Thanks for being such a good friend, David !!........always....."
This is a Great Documentary that you put together and I can only say Thank You! for all the pictures,information and history that made this so complete!
Interesting that George Pal produced two of the best science fiction movies between 1950 and 1960 based on Wells works, the 1953 War of the Worlds is a gem too. Actually one could count Pal's production of Robert Heinlein's Destination Moon too, even tho it is a bit flat footed it is the rest space suit movie with verisimilitude.
We kids were over the moon for War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. Both were staples of broadcast TV in the early '60s and my classmates and I would discuss our favorite scenes. Really fine memories of growing up in that era.
@@str.77 How? The point was that the Earth has its own God-given protection, in the form of microorganisms deadly to alien invaders. For all the technology and machine might of the Martians, they were defenseless against our diseases. Ironic.
I've listened to the audiobook of H. G Well's story and it is very different from either movie. The scene in the book where our time traveller goes down into the lair of the Morlocks is very scary and conveys a real sense of fear.
@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Wells used his stories to put forward his social theories, but The land Ironclads, The War in the air, numerous short stories and even The War of the World's were pure science fiction.
@@raymondlang George Pal's 1960 movie is better than the book. Had very good special effects way before CGI. The only thing that would have made it better was if they ran the names of the actors who played the Morlocks in the closing credits.
This was a great movie when I watched it as a kid in the 1960's. It aged well too. The Morlocks were frightening, especailly when their eyes glowed as they ventured to Eloi's pen to devour them. It was shocking to see one decompose in a few moments to a skeleton when Rod Taylor's character went forward in time. The ambiance of the scenes really put you i the movie. George Pal knocked it out of the park.
My fascination with time travel has been since I was a child even before reading or seeing the original HG Wells (The time machine.....) After seeing the movie it only made me love time travel that much more....! Like so many other people on this feed I don’t care for the 2000 remake even though I had a chance to purchase it for two dollars at Best Buy I do own it , but I also on the original time machine....❤️❤️❤️🎓🎓🎓
I had the great fortune to work for Mister Tim Baar who won an Oscar for the miniature Special Effects on this motion picture. Held it many times while in his home. Great memories from my youth.
I saw this as a child in the early 1960s with my dad and brothers. This was at the Port Theater in Port ARTHUR TEXAS. Sci-fi was always cool in the 1960s. I still enjoy watching them at 65.5 years old. My brothers have now passed on, and I think about our time we had together. I missed those days.
I remember this being on tv when I was a kid (around 6 or 7). I loved science fiction but was staying at my aunt's who said it was on too late so I could only watch half of it. I gave this some thought and then agreed "Alright, I'll watch the second half."
As noted in the narration, it was mostly filmed on MGM Studio's Lot #2 in Culver City, just a few blocks from the house I grew up in. The local kids regularly trespassed onto the lot, and played on the sets. We were always extra thrilled when we saw the same sets we played on show up onscreen.
Great video on a classic. I will always remember seeing the movie poster in front of the theater back in 1960. The picture of the morlocks looked so scary to a 6 year old.
Ok, hands up those who saw this film at some point from the late 1980s onwards and thought: "Wow! Those 'talking rings' could be a prediction of cds (any optical disc media)!"* *not unlike many future fictions predicted USB thumb drives
You’re absolutely right as rain!! And I also remember a prediction Maw made back in 1978-two predictions: 1. There would be a device which would combine the typewriter, the television, and the telephone. Guess what it is? -The Cell-Phone!!; 2. Hair coloring such as bright fluorescent orange, green, blue, purple, etc. would be serious styling touches. Even people in their sixties would use them.
I saw the film on BBC TV in the 70s as a child. I understood the inventor, Rod Taylor's, explanation of the model machine moving into the future. The other scientist, played by Sebastian Cabot, couldn't get it. Loved the film, the ambience, the adventure, the future, the machine, the morlocks, it was captivating. Still is and love it.
The original morlock from the 1960 movie gave me nightmares for years after when I was a kid. It took me until into my 40s before I could watch it again. I was horrified.
Absolutely agree that this was The BEST time travel movie ever made. It had warmth, charm, great characters and a wonderful story line. Perfect in every way. As a 12-year-old at the time, I sai d to myself, "This is a great movie!" The machine itself was a work of art. I learned the The late Russell Garcia that he used several musical instruments to create the sound of the machine. "The Journey Back" made in 1993 brought tears to my eyes -poignant and a touching "mini follie-up" to the original.
Yes one of the best alright, the actors, especially the Victorians were perfect, I admit my favourite parts of the movie by far are the scenes up to when the Time Traveller arrives in the future (Eloi & Morlocks) and the scenes after he arrives back from the future.
Back in the mid 90's I saw a fully restored film version at the Kennedy Center in Wash.D.C. I finally got to see the original widescreen as opposed to square TV where you didn't get to see the atomic satellite zeroing in on London among other things. Afterward, there was a panel including Alan Young and the people that restored the Time Machine with producers discussing that they were trying to get a TV show of it going.And best of all the "restored to original" Time Machine prop and many other artifacts from the film were in the lobby.I got to speak with Alan Young about the film and Mister Ed. The entire experience was truly enjoyable.
I think Wah Chang was responsible for Star Treks classic phaser, communicator and tricorder..which of course inspired our modern day cell phones and smart phones. Still waiting for my phaser :)
I was very fortunate to have an original lobby poster that I had from the movie signed by both Rod Taylor and Alan young. They were both absolute gentlemen. Had no idea at the time that Mr. Taylor was Australian, I know after talking to him.
When I was a kid I managed to stay up way past my bedtime, and I happened to catch The Time Machine on late night TV, just by chance. I sat on the floor of the TV den in our house past midnight watching this classic, the most haunting movie I have ever seen. For years afterward I would faithfully scan the TV listings every Friday to see if the movie was coming up again - this was long before VCRs - and I managed to catch it once or twice. It led me to more of Wells' works, and eventually to a career in science. My greatest professional regret was that I never invented a time machine myself, never checked out the year 802,701, never rescued my own Weena from any morlocks.
Actually, the first time travel story in world literature predated Wells' novel by about sixty years. It was a short story called "The Galoshes of Fortune", and was by -- of all people -- Hans Christian Andersen. He wrote it in 1838. It concerned a pair of magic galoshes which transport a 19th-century man back to the Middle Ages, a period he has always idealized -- until he actually sees, hears (and smells) it. It would be interesting to find out if Wells knew of Andersen's story before he wrote his own famous book on the same theme.
That's typical for the Hollywood penny-pinchers. If you have a director that can make good movies for next to nothing, just keep giving him less. Helps the bottom line. Jerks. There was supposed to be a big, elaborate set at the end of When Worlds Collide on the new planet but the studios thought it would be too expensive and nixed the idea. Pathetic.
@@jsat5609 They probably weren't as sensitive to religious themes then as we are now. A larger part of the public were also still Churchgoers then as well.
Time Machine is one of my childhood favorites, and it was one of my son's favorites as well. Nothing beats it for creativity, imagination and innovation.
Great film to do, Jonny! However, the pic you showed of Bob Burns, was not Bob Burns. It was Tom Scherman, a special effects friend of Bob's, who helped him restore the Time Machine prop, with several other talented people. Also, the Michael J. Fox documentary was called "Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy", which was to promote Back to the Future in 1985. "Time Machine - The Journey Back", was a documentary by Clyde Lucas, and hosted by Rod Taylor, about the journey the Time Machine prop took over the years, and released in 1993. But, I still loved your vid! Thanks for it!
It's such a favorite among fans of that period of cinema, admirers of George Pal, lovers of fantasy. And it's really well made. The score, the color, the acting, the costumes and props, the makeup-- all excellent. And this movie is also very heartwarming and poignant which adds to its charm and appeal. The first time I saw this had to have been in Long Island on the local ABC channel's afternoon show "The 4:30 Movie", back in the 1970's. Now I can watch it whenever I like, but it would be fun to go back in time and see it on a heavy, square TV with dials ... just as I originally had done.
When I was in college in the 1970s, I had an art teacher who had created the painted backgrounds for this film. I remember he drew something on a blackboard once that looked like the giant faces that existed in the future which I think broadcast orders from the Morlocks that controlled the Eloi.
Jonathan, I recently discovered your channel and I absolutely love it. I have a degree in film studies from my days in college and am a terrific film buff and your historical retrospectives are absolutely top-notch. I think your channel may be the best historical cinema channel on RUclips and I've seen quite a few. Your posts on RUclips could easily be used as historical reference material for a film studies course of high quality.
How could it be that Yvette Mimieux was "underage and not legally supposed to work"?! 06:19. Doesn't make any sense to me. Being underage never stopped Shirley Temple from working! 😕 😵
It might be the way in which the young people worked. Strict rules governed how child actors could work: How long they could perform daily, how they went to school, ... and they had to have a guardian present on-set at all times, etc.
As good as Verne was this Wells novel is first true modern science fiction novel. It is BIG THINKS and What If at the same time and is framed in a less 'Popular Mechanics' mode of narrative. With a few exceptions it would not be until the 1930s when science fiction writers really returned in serious strength to these themes, which are still very much alive today.
Very well done Jonathan! I grew up always trying to catch The Time Machine on TV. One of my first home video purchases was this film. It also made me re read the book many times. The thought of going back or forward in time always interested me very much.
I remember this as a young boy and have wondered what has happened to the time machines. I can imagine the large one eventually being dissembled and parts getting lost but the miniature would surely have been saved. That piece would be one of the most valuable Hollywood classic collectibles, right there with Dorothy's ruby shoes.
Thank you very much Jonathan. I was a boy of 10 years old when I first saw The Time Machine in a small theatre in Long Beach, California. It has always been one of my favorite movies of all time. Wait, did I just make a pun? Hahaha.
I saw this at the age of 12 when it first came out and loved every second of it! It didn't get old even after I watched it several more times over the years and it's still one of my favorite movies, which by the way added to my lifelong interest in science. Some of the remakes are good, but I doubt that the original will ever be matched - thanks for posting this!
Yvette Mimieux's last name is actually pronounced "Mim-U". And Whitt Bissell was also in the classic 1950's sci-fi movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Paul Frees was also in another H.G. Well's 1950's film adaptation "War of the Worlds". He's also in another 1950's sci-fi classic "The Thing From Another World".
I was about 12 years old in 1965 when I saw it in a local Glendale, AZ theater that doesn't exist anymore. The film knocked me out! I thought it was the greatest. It is a 'classic.'
Personally I didn't think it was a bad movie at all, though the whole thing about his fiance repeatedly dying was a bad idea, it had an unintentionally silly, almost Monty Python-like vibe to it and it started the film off on the wrong foot. I did like what it did with the Morlocks and how they had almost become like an ant colony, and Jeremy Irons was great as the villain.
Yes, a good scene! As a child I thought it was a shame that the beautiful model of the time machine was lost forever, and George's friends were totally unimpressed by the demonstration (except maybe good Filby). What a waste! And the cigar is still on the move, in time ...
I'd mention composer Russell Garcia's beautiful idyllic melody which gave a fitting Shangra La like theme and atmosphere to Well's story. The theme may remind some of Miklos Roza's main melody to Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Spellbound. Garcia, mostly a jazz composer, studied under Mario C. Tedesco who wrote much lovely classical guitar music. Garcia was chosen as the composer, I believe, because of an album he worked on called Fantastica - a futuristic orchestral and special effects album. Garcia also composed the score to George Pal's movie Atlantis The Lost Continent.
You can never get tired of watching the original. This is a timeless classic. I love this movie.
I never get tired of watching Yvette Mimieux. Damn was that girl beautiful.
The 1960 version of The Time Machine and Forbidden Planet are two greatest sci-fi movies ever made.
@Scott Allen Speaking of time traveling to do rip-offs,
Roger Corman in 1957 journeyed to 1977 to rip-off "Star Wars'' & came back
to make his ''War Of The Satellites" released in 1958.
He never paid the rights to "Star Wars'' the cheap skate !
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy I don't remember that movie I want to have to find it
@@tolfan4438 "War Of The Satellites"(1958)
It's here on RUclips.
Great movie- a often forgotten sci-fi gem. Rod Taylor is excellent and so is the supporting cast.
I don't think it is very forgotten about, but not seen on TV enough. ☺ ( I have the DVD). ☺
@H. G. Wells The soundtrack is beautiful and fits the film. I think it should be made available to own in a new release of the movie, on a Blu Ray version or something like for a anniversary, that would make it a must have collectable. ☺
More than a great movie. A classic.
@@danielwilliamson6180 It's both.
@@Nige031077 Here you go.
www.amazon.com/Time-Machine-BD-Blu-ray-Various/dp/B00IYJFB2G/ref=sr_1_16?keywords=The+time+machine&qid=1575012537&sr=8-16
One of the things I remember about this movie was the way the style of clothes changed in the clothing store window to show the years passing.
That was this movie, wasn’t it?
Thanks.
Yep
Yes it was...
It was a very important part of the movie, the Time traveller noticed the womens skirts getting shorter and shorter over decades, he also mentions his affinity with the female mannequin, who like him was never aging.
Yes, it was a very clever way of representing changing fashion.
I was buying every second of everything Rod Taylor was giving in this film. He was so good!
they made the right choice.
I'm surprised it was a 'cheap' film because it looks wonderful for the era and even now has a sense of grandeur to it.
Look
There is a wonderful restoration of it.
I'm surprised also, special F/x are normally expensive, f/x from the start to the end film, no location shots, everything have to be made, I seem to remember, that the time machine prop, was the most expensive film prop to make at that time, I mite be thing of a later version of the film though?
Its still a cracking film.
Gotta love those 60's hairdos in the year 802701!
The Time machine is a Timeless classic Masterpiece .
This is my all time favourite film. Scared the crap out of me as a child.Rod Taylor was born for this part.The remake pales to compare.
At least Aussies played the protagonist both times!
For sure.
The 2002 version suffered because of the very times in which it was made, its story led nowhere.
The BBC is making a close adaptation of The War Of The Worlds. Hope that they will do the same for The Time Machine.
@@Charlesputnam-bn9zy I've seen the trailers TWoTW. It does look very good.
When you saw it for the first time, did you see it at a drive-in, like I did, in the 1960s? We also saw at a drive-in, " Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".It seemed so realistic, with the whole sky on fire, I thought it really WAS like that ( no, "Time Machine" didn't scare me, I thought it was just very well done).
As a kid the Morlocks were terrifying...those glowing eyes!
yes and they lived in caves so they can barely see; somehow the fact that they are ugly, almost blind beasts made them more creepy!
Yeah when we were kids watching it we would yell out watch out for the 4 eyed twits classic movie
I'd have those ugly bastards in chains mining Zenite.
@@jeffreydevoti8528: ...or corbomite!
Wasn't so much the eyes as the whole face - good job by the creature designer! If it were the glowing eyes, Jawas would have scared me back in '77.
Rod Taylor was brilliantly cast. No actor can replace him. RIP.
this is my favorite RT movie, my second was spy spoof call The Liquidator.
Other than Robin Williams....ummm
I love this movie - and have, since I was a child. The Morlocks freaked me out, but the story and the visuals were fantastic. I also loved Rod Taylor in 'The Birds'. I always enjoyed him as an actor - he brought a sense of humor and of urgency to his roles.
Absolutely loved this movie, one of the best sci-fi movie I've ever seen in my life.
A movie that I can sit down and watch any time.
YES! I couldn't Agree MORE! THIS and Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the 1961 "Mysterious Island"! Can watch them ANY ANY ANY TIME! :D
I remember going to the Saturday matinee at the theater by me and seeing it good times!!!
Any time - I see what you did there...
When this came out I was 9 years old. My childhood friend Judy and I were dropped off one sunny day at the Fox theater in Riverside California. I remember us feeling kind of 'grown up' to be able to attend it by ourselves.
Not having any access to color motion pictures except at a theater or drive in made it more special.
I have remained a great fan of this movie all of my life,and will remain so.
Thanks for the memories !............
Thank you for this loving tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time. I love how at the end, George returns to the future to be with Weena... taking three books with him (as Filby discovers). Filby asking George's housekeeper which three books are missing... she answering she does not know... and the viewer being left to imagine for themselves which three books they might take in George's situation... is one of the great, thoughtful film endings of all time.
I would imagine that one would be the Bible, another a dictionary perhaps, and the third a history book? Those are the books I would bring, but the Bible definitely.
@@edithlewis9330 The last thing future civilisation needs are colonials from the past trying to propagate their religion - but I guess that fits with the era that The Time Machine takes place in. With any hope, the Eloi would find if silly and throw it away or think that it's a funny comedy.
A character written by Mr Wells as an engineer would I suspect be more inclined to bring with him books on science, mathematics or engineering. These are universals and not tools for one culture to overtake another.
“He’s got all the time in the wo’ld. “
When I saw the movie on TV with my mom, we a discussion on the 3 books and which 3 we would take. We both agreed it be more how-to or text book style than anything else.
@@edithlewis9330 .........The one with John Beck did exactly that, peppered with some Mormon propaganda, because that was the film studio and source of the funding.
Totally agree that this is the best version.
Jonny,
I loved Forbidden Planet, The Time Machine and War of the Worlds.
Having been born in 1942 and being a Science Fiction/Fantasy/ Horror fan my whole life,
those films really made my day as a youngster.
I have never forgotten the memory coins, or the or Robbie or the Flying tripod machines.
The Thing was my other go to at the time, the remake was truer to Campbell's Story "Who Goes There" but
I preferred my imagination to the Technicolor gore of the remake.
I saw many others which you have reviewed, thanks for the insights
and the memories.
Frederick (Rik) Spector
This brings back memories of the boyhood crush I had on Yvette Mimieux!! She was smokin HOT!!
Dan Niksich I agree. I had a boyhood crush on her, too.
I had hoped to name our daughter "Weena" if we had one, but the Mrs wasn't buying it.
Steve Mascella Lol!
She sure was a hottie, oh yeah 💓
No curves on her...
One of the best things ever filmed.
"Back to the Future" gave a nod to this movie with the time input panel of the DeLorean using the same colors as the panel at 4:44
The first time I saw "The Time Machine" I was about 10 yrs. old. It was showing at a theatre just down the block from my grandmother's. The admission fee, believe it or not, was 10 cents. I sat in a front-row seat and never took my eyes off the screen except to grab a handful of popcorn and a slurp of my drink. I think a box of popcorn and a drink were also 10 cents. Oh, the good ole days! I am now 72 and reminisce about my childhood movie days all the time. Thanks again for the memories!
One of the early Movies that shaped my love for sci-fi as a kid. Had me enthralled and scared of the Morlocks.
Yvette in her 40s reappeared in the Disney Film 'The Black Hole, and was still a very pretty lady.
She was the original choice for Captain Janeway.
Yes. It's just a pity 'The Black Hole' was a rarther poor Star Wars wannabe at the time.
@@gordon5004 I thought that was Genevieve Bujold?
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab That Anthony Perkins death scene! The Black Hole is one of those films I can fault all day long, but love it anyway. Plenty of silly and superficial elements for the popcorn chompers, yet with so many compelling moments and something thoughtful underneath it all.
Both she and Yvette both have French blood.
This was my Dad's favorite Sci-fi film. He saw it at the cinema when it first came out.
You're right Jonathan. This movie though dated was and is one of my favorites from my childhood until now. Thanks for sharing.
A great movie that was 60 years ahead of it's Time, literally. Rod Taylor was fantastic in it, and so was the story.
A true classic, that means as much for us all tomorrow, as it did yesterday.
I always considered this movie in the quality range of that period with “The day the Earth Stood Still”, “War of the Worlds”, and “Forbidden Planet”. I first saw it in Jr High School in 1967, they would show ~20 min of it for several days at lunch time in the school auditorium. Great memories…
Oh my God! It's all come rushing back! I read the Classics Illustrated comic of TTM while on vacation with my parents at a motel in Franconia Notch NH. I must have been 7 or 8. Did not sleep for days.
Fabulous movie, one of my all time favorites. Thanks for the video.
George Pal was brilliant. Great groundbreaking works.
Yes. So sad he's hardly remembered today . . He was a Genius on a low budget.
War of the Worlds has never been
improved on.!
i like the little details like the hgwells on the time machine under the numbers
This is still one of my all time favorite movies.
Great Mini-Doc of one of my favorite child hood Science Fiction Movies. I have seen it many times and never get tired of it.
Yvette stops your heart she is so beautiful~!!!
This is still my all-time favorite movie... Loved it as a kid growing up and still love it today!!
So cool that you open with the UFO theme. I just watched UFO for the first time.
Favorite scenes were the sound effects with that GREAT VOICE from the talking rings, the toy model disappearing in the beginning, and George's goodbye scene in the snowfall with his friend Philby at the end: "Thanks for being such a good friend, David !!........always....."
Thank you. I enjoyed that so much. That was the film Igrew up watching. I did see the 2002 one on a flight though. It was good.
This is a Great Documentary that you put together and I can only say Thank You! for all the pictures,information and history that made this so complete!
I've loved this movie for sixty-four years, when it first came out.💖
Filby was the best friend ever.
Rory Gallagher certainly thought so!
He was also the richest duck in the world, later on.
So funny I think of mr ed everytime I see filby
@@ray.a7343 I had no idea that was him until I saw thins... amazing. I can still hear the horse saying "Wilbour"
Yeah. I could certainly use a friend like him. 👍😉
I consider "Time After Time" with Malcolm MacDowell and David Warner as the #2 best time travel movie of all time.
Interesting that George Pal produced two of the best science fiction movies between 1950 and 1960 based on Wells works, the 1953 War of the Worlds is a gem too. Actually one could count Pal's production of Robert Heinlein's Destination Moon too, even tho it is a bit flat footed it is the rest space suit movie with verisimilitude.
We kids were over the moon for War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. Both were staples of broadcast TV in the early '60s and my classmates and I would discuss our favorite scenes. Really fine memories of growing up in that era.
@@str.77 How? The point was that the Earth has its own God-given protection, in the form of microorganisms deadly to alien invaders. For all the technology and machine might of the Martians, they were defenseless against our diseases. Ironic.
@@joesterling4299 Yes, that was the point. But the old movie adaptation lacked exactly that.
@@str.77 It did?
@@jsat5609 That's what I remember. Or are there two old movie adaptations?
Weena, at some point in the film, say a few words to Rod Taylor, that apply pretty well to this chaotic 21st century: "there´s no future".
those who haven't read H. G. Wells are missing great stories.
I've listened to the audiobook of H. G Well's story and it is very different from either movie. The scene in the book where our time traveller goes down into the lair of the Morlocks is very scary and conveys a real sense of fear.
Science fantasy really .... Jules Verne was more the science fictionist .
@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Wells used his stories to put forward his social theories, but The land Ironclads, The War in the air, numerous short stories and even The War of the World's were pure science fiction.
@@colinharbinson8284 How were they powered ?
@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 how were what powered?.
I loved both movies. But especially the first one.
1960’s version is the best.
Always will be the best.
Most remakes are terrible, including tv series remakes like The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
@@raymondlang
George Pal's 1960 movie is better than the book. Had very good special effects way before CGI. The only thing that would have made it better was if they ran the names of the actors who played the Morlocks in the closing credits.
@@williamhaynes4800 YES!! I have Time Machine, War of the Worlds books, Incredible writing.
@@raymondlang
Have you read The Invisible Man?
@@williamhaynes4800 No, but love the first film by Universal Studios starring Claude Raines!! Have all the vintage stuff on DVD box sets.
This was a great movie when I watched it as a kid in the 1960's. It aged well too. The Morlocks were frightening, especailly when their eyes glowed as they ventured to Eloi's pen to devour them. It was shocking to see one decompose in a few moments to a skeleton when Rod Taylor's character went forward in time. The ambiance of the scenes really put you i the movie. George Pal knocked it out of the park.
My fascination with time travel has been since I was a child even before reading or seeing the original HG Wells (The time machine.....)
After seeing the movie it only made me love time travel that much more....! Like so many other people on this feed I don’t care for the 2000 remake even though I had a chance to purchase it for two dollars at Best Buy I do own it , but I also on the original time machine....❤️❤️❤️🎓🎓🎓
this video is brilliant! it tells you EVERYTHING related to the Time Machine movie...well done JonnyBaak!
I had the great fortune to work for Mister Tim Baar who won an Oscar for the miniature Special Effects on this motion picture. Held it many times while in his home. Great memories from my youth.
I saw this as a child in the early 1960s with my dad and brothers. This was at the Port Theater in Port ARTHUR TEXAS. Sci-fi was always cool in the 1960s. I still enjoy watching them at 65.5 years old. My brothers have now passed on, and I think about our time we had together. I missed those days.
I remember this being on tv when I was a kid (around 6 or 7). I loved science fiction but was staying at my aunt's who said it was on too late so I could only watch half of it. I gave this some thought and then agreed "Alright, I'll watch the second half."
As noted in the narration, it was mostly filmed on MGM Studio's Lot #2 in Culver City, just a few blocks from the house I grew up in. The local kids regularly trespassed onto the lot, and played on the sets. We were always extra thrilled when we saw the same sets we played on show up onscreen.
Great video on a classic. I will always remember seeing the movie poster in front of the theater back in 1960. The picture of the morlocks looked so scary to a 6 year old.
Rod Taylor was also in my favorite Twilight Zone episode "And When the Sky Was Opened"
Ok, hands up those who saw this film at some point from the late 1980s onwards and thought: "Wow! Those 'talking rings' could be a prediction of cds (any optical disc media)!"*
*not unlike many future fictions predicted USB thumb drives
You’re absolutely right as rain!! And I also remember a prediction Maw made back in 1978-two predictions: 1. There would be a device which would combine the typewriter, the television, and the telephone. Guess what it is? -The Cell-Phone!!; 2. Hair coloring such as bright fluorescent orange, green, blue, purple, etc. would be serious styling touches. Even people in their sixties would use them.
Brother and I loved the 1966 scenes as that's when we first saw it on TV.
The lead actor is unforgettable.
Saw it with older brother back in 1960, in Watsonville, CA. And of course the gal was eye candy, to a kid. Thanks.
I remember going to the local theatre to watch it, seems just like yesterday
I saw the film on BBC TV in the 70s as a child. I understood the inventor, Rod Taylor's, explanation of the model machine moving into the future. The other scientist, played by Sebastian Cabot, couldn't get it. Loved the film, the ambience, the adventure, the future, the machine, the morlocks, it was captivating. Still is and love it.
The original morlock from the 1960 movie gave me nightmares for years after when I was a kid. It took me until into my 40s before I could watch it again. I was horrified.
Absolutely agree that this was The BEST time travel movie ever made. It had warmth, charm, great characters and a wonderful story line. Perfect in every way. As a 12-year-old at the time, I sai d to myself, "This is a great movie!" The machine itself was a work of art. I learned the The late Russell Garcia that he used several musical instruments to create the sound of the machine. "The Journey Back" made in 1993 brought tears to my eyes -poignant and a touching "mini follie-up" to the original.
I was 9 when this came out at the movies. The Morlocks scared the pee out of me. LOL
I was 8....gave me nightmares...I don't think I would have seen it in the movies, probably more like on tv.
Me too! Same age. The Morlocks scared me to death!
Yes one of the best alright, the actors, especially the Victorians were perfect, I admit my favourite parts of the movie by far are the scenes up to when the Time Traveller arrives in the future (Eloi & Morlocks) and the scenes after he arrives back from the future.
The old movie is the best indeed...⏳ Thanx for this nice review.
a must see - well done😎
Back in the mid 90's I saw a fully restored film version at the Kennedy Center in Wash.D.C. I finally got to see the original widescreen as opposed to square TV where you didn't get to see the atomic satellite zeroing in on London among other things. Afterward, there was a panel including Alan Young and the people that restored the Time Machine with producers discussing that they were trying to get a TV show of it going.And best of all the "restored to original" Time Machine prop and many other artifacts from the film were in the lobby.I got to speak with Alan Young about the film and Mister Ed. The entire experience was truly enjoyable.
Wah Chang went on to create the monsters on THE OUTER LIMITS (and some for STAR TREK).
YES he DID! Good Point!
I think Wah Chang was responsible for Star Treks classic phaser, communicator and tricorder..which of course inspired our modern day cell phones and smart phones. Still waiting for my phaser :)
@@CaptApril123 I know for sure he designed the original Romulan Bird of Prey starship.
@@jackgrattan1447 i believe i heard that somewhere yes
Wah Chang did the best aliens and all the Star Trek spin-offs did not really comparable aliens other than the borg.
I was very fortunate to have an original lobby poster that I had from the movie signed by both Rod Taylor and Alan young. They were both absolute gentlemen. Had no idea at the time that Mr. Taylor was Australian, I know after talking to him.
Great film, I saw it when it first came out. I'm an old Geezer.
When I was a kid I managed to stay up way past my bedtime, and I happened to catch The Time Machine on late night TV, just by chance. I sat on the floor of the TV den in our house past midnight watching this classic, the most haunting movie I have ever seen. For years afterward I would faithfully scan the TV listings every Friday to see if the movie was coming up again - this was long before VCRs - and I managed to catch it once or twice. It led me to more of Wells' works, and eventually to a career in science. My greatest professional regret was that I never invented a time machine myself, never checked out the year 802,701, never rescued my own Weena from any morlocks.
Great stuff, The Rod Taylor Time Machine movie is one of my favorites. I appreciate all the hard work you must put into these video, thanks!
Actually, the first time travel story in world literature predated Wells' novel by about sixty years. It was a short story called "The Galoshes of Fortune", and was by -- of all people -- Hans Christian Andersen. He wrote it in 1838. It concerned a pair of magic galoshes which transport a 19th-century man back to the Middle Ages, a period he has always idealized -- until he actually sees, hears (and smells) it. It would be interesting to find out if Wells knew of Andersen's story before he wrote his own famous book on the same theme.
Good point !
After that, Pal made ''Atlantis The Lost Continent'' on an even stringier budget, yet still pulled it off !
That's typical for the Hollywood penny-pinchers. If you have a director that can make good movies for next to nothing, just keep giving him less. Helps the bottom line. Jerks. There was supposed to be a big, elaborate set at the end of When Worlds Collide on the new planet but the studios thought it would be too expensive and nixed the idea. Pathetic.
@@johngore5127 I think they just had to use one of the concept paintings for the ending, but Pal still pulled it off anyway. Great, great movie.
@@jsat5609 They probably weren't as sensitive to religious themes then as we are now. A larger part of the public were also still Churchgoers then as well.
I saw that and it was really great and the especially the effects were good
Then there was "Doc Savage," which it can be argued, didn't turn out so well.
Time Machine is one of my childhood favorites, and it was one of my son's favorites as well. Nothing beats it for creativity, imagination and innovation.
Great film to do, Jonny!
However, the pic you showed of Bob Burns, was not Bob Burns. It was Tom Scherman, a special effects friend of Bob's, who helped him restore the Time Machine prop, with several other talented people. Also, the Michael J. Fox documentary was called "Time Travel: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy", which was to promote Back to the Future in 1985. "Time Machine - The Journey Back", was a documentary by Clyde Lucas, and hosted by Rod Taylor, about the journey the Time Machine prop took over the years, and released in 1993.
But, I still loved your vid! Thanks for it!
It's such a favorite among fans of that period of cinema, admirers of George Pal, lovers of fantasy. And it's really well made. The score, the color, the acting, the costumes and props, the makeup-- all excellent. And this movie is also very heartwarming and poignant which adds to its charm and appeal. The first time I saw this had to have been in Long Island on the local ABC channel's afternoon show "The 4:30 Movie", back in the 1970's. Now I can watch it whenever I like, but it would be fun to go back in time and see it on a heavy, square TV with dials ... just as I originally had done.
When I was in college in the 1970s, I had an art teacher who had created the painted backgrounds for this film. I remember he drew something on a blackboard once that looked like the giant faces that existed in the future which I think broadcast orders from the Morlocks that controlled the Eloi.
This is one of my very favorite films. 💗
They were BOTH great movies but I loved Yvette. She was just great and so young, LOL..
Jonathan, I recently discovered your channel and I absolutely love it. I have a degree in film studies from my days in college and am a terrific film buff and your historical retrospectives are absolutely top-notch. I think your channel may be the best historical cinema channel on RUclips and I've seen quite a few. Your posts on RUclips could easily be used as historical reference material for a film studies course of high quality.
How could it be that Yvette Mimieux was "underage and not legally supposed to work"?! 06:19. Doesn't make any sense to me. Being underage never stopped Shirley Temple from working! 😕 😵
It might be the way in which the young people worked. Strict rules governed how child actors could work: How long they could perform daily, how they went to school, ... and they had to have a guardian present on-set at all times, etc.
Saw this when I was a kid and it takes pride of place in my DVD collection..
As good as Verne was this Wells novel is first true modern science fiction novel. It is BIG THINKS and What If at the same time and is framed in a less 'Popular Mechanics' mode of narrative. With a few exceptions it would not be until the 1930s when science fiction writers really returned in serious strength to these themes, which are still very much alive today.
Very well done Jonathan! I grew up always trying to catch The Time Machine on TV. One of my first home video purchases was this film. It also made me re read the book many times. The thought of going back or forward in time always interested me very much.
I remember this as a young boy and have wondered what has happened to the time machines. I can imagine the large one eventually being dissembled and parts getting lost but the miniature would surely have been saved. That piece would be one of the most valuable Hollywood classic collectibles, right there with Dorothy's ruby shoes.
Steve Donovan I read the miniature Time Machine was lost in a fire at Pal’s house.
Thank you very much Jonathan. I was a boy of 10 years old when I first saw The Time Machine in a small theatre in Long Beach, California. It has always been one of my favorite movies of all time. Wait, did I just make a pun? Hahaha.
One of my favorite movies when I was young.....
I saw this at the age of 12 when it first came out and loved every second of it! It didn't get old even after I watched it several more times over the years and it's still one of my favorite movies, which by the way added to my lifelong interest in science. Some of the remakes are good, but I doubt that the original will ever be matched - thanks for posting this!
Yvette Mimieux's last name is actually pronounced "Mim-U". And Whitt Bissell was also in the classic 1950's sci-fi movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Paul Frees was also in another H.G. Well's 1950's film adaptation "War of the Worlds". He's also in another 1950's sci-fi classic "The Thing From Another World".
Yea the narrator kept on saying "Haytch" instead of "Aitch" for the letter H ...that's bad pronunciation
I remember being very excited watching this movie as a boy. I was amazed at Rod Taylor's fearlessness. It had such an impact on my little life. And
The original film is best.
Not a fan of the remake.
Generally, most remakes are garbage. Only a very few are equal or better than the originals.
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The re-make was ok, not terrible. (I didn't hate it. It was just ok.) The original is by far the better of the two.
Too right original has style.
The remake was unadulterated rubbish.
Absolutely The 1960 version is a Classic
7:16 THE SET DESIGNERS had been masterminds!! Up to your clip I really had thought the movie had been done of not in London so at least in England.:)
I truly love this film.
I was about 12 years old in 1965 when I saw it in a local Glendale, AZ theater that doesn't exist anymore. The film knocked me out! I thought it was the greatest. It is a 'classic.'
So much better than that miserable 2000s movie. Can't do The Time Machine without that marvelous sleigh....
The 2002 film was good but it wasn't great.
You could buy a toy replica a few years ago, should have got one ha
That one was woke too.
At least both travelers were played by Aussies!
Personally I didn't think it was a bad movie at all, though the whole thing about his fiance repeatedly dying was a bad idea, it had an unintentionally silly, almost Monty Python-like vibe to it and it started the film off on the wrong foot. I did like what it did with the Morlocks and how they had almost become like an ant colony, and Jeremy Irons was great as the villain.
Love your videos! They're always so informative.
My favorite part is when he sends off the cigar
Yes, a good scene! As a child I thought it was a shame that the beautiful model of the time machine was lost forever, and George's friends were totally unimpressed by the demonstration (except maybe good Filby). What a waste! And the cigar is still on the move, in time ...
Very thorough and extensive video. Well done!
In 1980, Carl Sagan used the 1960 Time Machine in a segment of his PBS “Cosmos” series.
Yes he did! It and Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and the later "Mysterious Island" were his All Time FAV Sci-Fi Movies!
I'd mention composer Russell Garcia's beautiful idyllic melody which gave a fitting Shangra La like theme and atmosphere to Well's story. The theme may remind some of Miklos Roza's main melody to Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Spellbound. Garcia, mostly a jazz composer, studied under Mario C. Tedesco who wrote much lovely classical guitar music. Garcia was chosen as the composer, I believe, because of an album he worked on called Fantastica - a futuristic orchestral and special effects album. Garcia also composed the score to George Pal's movie Atlantis The Lost Continent.