

The Time Machine is a 1960 science fiction film based on the 1865 H.G. Wells novel of the same name. The film was directed by George Pal, who also directed the famed 1953 version of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. The Time Machine was renowned in its time for its usage of special effects and picked up an Academy Award for Special Effects in 1961. Among its more notable effects is the usage of time lapse photography to illustrate the world changing at a breakneck speed according to the point of view of the time traveller. The Time Machine was remade in 2002 by H.G. Wells’ great-grandson in a film that starred Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons.
The Time Machine stars Rod Taylor, also known from the Hitchcock classic The Birds, as George, a Victorian era Englishman with an interest in time travel. He spends time working on a time machine in his home and discusses the possibilities of time travel with his sceptical friends, who appear to humour him up until he shows them a miniature model of the time machine and has it disappear in front of them. George’s friends dismiss this disappearance as a parlour trick and depart, only to have George, frustrated, get into his full-scale time machine and blast off through time. George departs through time, stopping at each major World War on the way, until he eventually reaches the year 802701.
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