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The Time Machine

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The Time Machine

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Overview

The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. The story is set in Victorian England and follows an inventor who 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. The film was originally released on August 17, 1960, and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It received the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the future. Plot On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner at the London home of their inventor friend George. He is absent, then suddenly appears, bedraggled and exhausted. He recounts what happened to him.

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Notable quotes

“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”
— Chapter 1
“Are you so sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But now about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.”
— Chapter 1
“Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine... That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.”
— Chapter 1
“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last.”
— Chapter 4
“I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours—that is another matter.”
— Chapter 5
“In a moment I knew what had happened. I had slept, and my fire had gone out, and the cold bitterness of death had come over my soul.”
— Chapter 9

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Overview

The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. The story is set in Victorian England and follows an inventor who 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. The film was originally released on August 17, 1960, and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It received the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the future. Plot On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner at the London home of their inventor friend George. He is absent, then suddenly appears, bedraggled and exhausted. He recounts what happened to him.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.”
— Chapter 1
“Are you so sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But now about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.”
— Chapter 1
“Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine... That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.”
— Chapter 1
“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last.”
— Chapter 4
“I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours—that is another matter.”
— Chapter 5
“In a moment I knew what had happened. I had slept, and my fire had gone out, and the cold bitterness of death had come over my soul.”
— Chapter 9

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.