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[Rick]

I met Shirley Knight several times a few years back when I did a show with her daughter.

In addition to her youthful hotness and her lifelong acting brilliance, she is a very nice, friendly lady and, maybe best of all, she makes maybe the yummiest fudge I've ever tasted.
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Man need not kneel before the angels,
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But for the weakness of his feeble will.

[Bud Brewster]

[Eadie]

MY favorite moment that should have been in the movie:


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Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable.

[johnnybear]

I've always wondered why these great scientists before they died always left messages which start by them saying "My name is of no consequence..!" I think maybe they must have had a silly name like Elmer or Myran so that's why they never tell us!
JB

[Eadie]

Cone Entrance Set:



Museum Set:


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Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable.

[Robert (Butch) Day]

The original Eloi house (museum?) matte painting:


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Common Sense ISN'T Common

[Bud Brewster]

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This has some nice info I didn't know. For example, George Pal originally wanted an older man for the starring role, but he changed his mind (thank goodness) and went with Rod Taylor.

An audio clip of an interview with Rod is included.

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_Everything you need to know about The Time Machine


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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Yesterday, during the TCM New Year's Day science fiction marathon, I watched this great movie and enjoyed it yet again — after seeing it for the first time, 59 years ago!

I first watched it in a movie theater in 1960 when I was 12 years old when my mother (who looked remarkable like Mrs. Watchett) took me and my two best friends to see it.


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The TCM airing presented a beautiful picture, along with their earlier airings of Beyond the Time Barrier, Forbidden Planet, and World Without End!

I kept the All Sci-Fi's Chatzy room open all day, hoping a few members would drop in and share one or more of the movies . . . but that didn't happen.

Oh well. Maybe next time.

Anyway, I still keep hoping that All Sci-Fi's Friday Live Chat might someday be revived.

As I've tried to explain to some of the members who've told me they couldn't watch movies while chatting, the purpose of a "Live Chat" is NOT actually to watch a move . . . it's to chat with friends while letting a familiar movie we've all seen several times before provide us with suggestions for comments we can make during the chat.

In other words, if you're watching the movie instead of chatting with the other folks, you've completely missed the point!

Think it over, guys. The members of the Classic Horror Film Board have chats every Tuesday and Friday, and they get a dozen of members every time!

So, why can't WE do that too!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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IMDB has 45 trivia items for this movie, and I present some of them on page 2 of this thread. Here’s a few more of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text.
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~ Yvette Mimieux was actually underage when shooting began (she turned 18 during the shoot) and was not legally supposed to work a full shooting schedule, but did. She was inexperienced, but as she worked on this film she kept getting better and better, so that by the end of the shoot the producers went back and re-shot some of her earliest scenes.

Note from me: I don't mean to be unkind, but if young Yvette's acting started out even less skilled and improved enough to justify re-shooting her earlier scenes, she must have been pretty rough in those first versions!

~ When the Time Traveler stops in 1966, in the front window of Filby's Department store there is a very brief shot of a display featuring "the latest tubeless TV". It looks remarkably like a modern flat-panel computer monitor.

Note from me: I can't help but wonder what the prop in that scene actually was.

~ Alan Young (David Filby/James Filby) is the only actor to appear in both this film and the remake, The Time Machine (2002).

Note from me: Alan's cameo in the wonderful 2002 remake was a great tribute to this film.

~ In the DVD special feature entitled "Time Machine: The Journey Continues", FX designers Wah Chang, Tim Baar and Gene Warren state that the scene of the limb with several apples and leaves growing on it at an accelerated rate while George moves forward in time was actually a painting done by artist Bill Brace. The canvas was photographed with a locked-off camera, one frame at a time, as Brace rendered the progressive growth of the leaves and apples in great detail.

Note from me: If I hadn't heard this myself on my DVD special features, I'd doubt the authenticity of this claim. The "growing" fruit just looks too good to be a time lapse of a painting.

~ According to supplemental information on the DVD George Pal wanted the disk on the machine to spin clockwise for travel into the future and counter-clockwise for travel into the past. Due to the way the mechanism was built it was deemed too expensive and time-consuming to add the reversing feature.

Note from me: I don't blame the filmmakers for nixing that idea. No one in the audience would have noticed the change in direction in that last scene of George traveling back in time, much less understood the significance of reversed spinning disc.

Besides, I checked the movie tonight and the disc turns counterclockwise from the first scene to the last. So, the whole claim above seems to be bogus.

~ The shape of the time machine itself was inspired by one of George Pal's favorite types of childhood vehicles--a sled. This is the reason for the sled-like design of the machine, so that it could "slide" into time.

Note from me: Hmmm . . . it doesn't resemble a sled all that much. But I do love the design.

~ The miniature version of the Time Machine was kept by producer-director George Pal. It was lost when Pal's home was destroyed by fire.

Note from me: A moment of silence please for a lost work of art . . .







~ When George arrives in the year 802701 his time machine reads the date of October 12th. So George arrives into a "New World" on the anniversary of Columbus' first reaching the "New World" of the Americas.

Note from me: Did somebody connected with the film do that on purpose, or was it a coincidence of cosmic proportions?

~ During George's stop on August 19, 1966, the air raid wardens were wearing the grey crew uniforms from space ship C-57D Forbidden Planet (1956).

Note from me: Somebody fixed this item, because it used to read as shown below. I posted a comment on April 22, 2017 on page 2 of this thread. This is what the trivia item used to say.

During George's stop on August 19, 1966, the air raid wardens were wearing the grey Bellerophon crew uniforms from Forbidden Planet (1956).
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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There are three distinctly different shots of the Morlock sphinx, the two of which are of an a miniature, and the other two are matte paintings. I noticed some differences in the shape of the heads between the miniature and the matte painting.

The miniature has cheeks that are almost flat, and a jawline which has a sharp edge. The mouth area is similar to a flat triangle above a flat rectangle, titled at two different angles.

The chin is almost straight along the bottom of the face, with a sharp edge.







The painting (which differs in color between the two shots) has cheeks which seem more rounded, and a jawline that lacks the sharp edge of the miniature version.







Here's a side-by-side comparison.



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Eadie]

[Bud Brewster]

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The Internet Archive has the Classic Illustrated version of the novel on which this move is based!

Unfortunately the quality of the issue that was used is very poor due to age, and I had to work for hours to turn the original images, like this one —



— into enhanced versions like this!



I'll post the first 18 pages of the 52 total, and then add the rest to this post when I finish some-or-all of them.

While working on the jpeps to improve them, I was impressed by the way this comic book version captures the magic of both the movie and the novel — giving us a third way to enjoy this remarkable story!

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Gord Green]

Beautiful artwork by LOU CAMERON, who also illustrated THE WAR OF THE WORLDS for CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED.

I especially like his designs for such things as the time machine, the Elois and their habitat, the Martian tripods etc. Really top rate work!
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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

[Bud Brewster]

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Today, I tried to find the Classics Illustrated version of The Time Machine on archive.org so I could restore the rest of the pages, the way I did the first 18 above, but I couldn't locate it!

I did find a page on archive.org which had a long list of the Classics Illustrated issues they do have, but the The Time Machine wasn't on the list.

I wish I had download the jpegs of the entire comic so I'd have them to restore and post on this thread. Perhaps All Sci-Fi member Morbius can help me. He volunteers there and has provided us with links to some of their great material in the past.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)