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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 .
After freeing her, he starts the machine and jams its gears, distorting time. Pursued by the Morlocks, Alexander and Mara escape to the surface as the time distortion explodes, killing the Morlocks and destroying their caves and the time machine. Alexander begins a new life with Mara and the Eloi, while Vox 114 helps him educate them.
Novel 1895 Sun The Time Machine: H. G. Wells: Towards the end of the book the Time Traveler witnesses the Sun's expansion, causing the death of all life on Earth. Novel 1898 Aliens The War of the Worlds: H. G. Wells: Novel 1901 Eco The Purple Cloud: M. P. Shiel: A volcanic eruption floods the world with cyanide gas. Story 1906 Sun "Finis" Frank ...
Based on the book with the same title, the show portrays a 1962 in which the Axis powers won World War II and divided the Americas. 2016 11.22.63: Based on the book 11/22/63 by Stephen King, in which the main character goes back in time trying to save John F. Kennedy and altering the course of events. 2017 Neo Yokio
The portion of the novella that sees the Time Traveller in a distant future where the sun is huge and red also places The Time Machine within the realm of eschatology; that is, the study of the end times, the end of the world, and the ultimate destiny of humankind. [19]
Doomsday Machine, also known as Escape from Planet Earth (video title), is an American science fiction film mostly filmed in 1967 but completed without the original cast or sets in 1972. [ 1 ] Plot
The film's first heat-ray scene has a projector shaped like a cobra head with a single, red pulsing light, which likely acts as a targeting telescope for the Martians inside their war machine shaped like a manta ray. The novel describes another weapon, the "black smoke" used to kill all life; the war machines fire canisters containing a black ...
Consequently, Venus transits only occur when an inferior conjunction takes place during some days of June or December, when the orbits of Venus and Earth cross a straight line with the Sun. [189] This results in Venus transiting above Earth in a sequence currently of 8 years, 105.5 years, 8 years and 121.5 years, forming cycles of 243 years.