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The Time Machine (1960) - Part 3
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orzel-w
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, but my signature line always includes "...or not...".

But then, a conductor (wire) moving in a magnetic field produces an electrical current. So maybe the spinning of the ring was enough to generate a temporary sympathetic current in the table.

...or not...

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

orzel-w wrote:
But then, a conductor (wire) moving in a magnetic field produces an electrical current. So maybe the spinning of the ring was enough to generate a temporary sympathetic current in the table.

The rings would have to be surrounded by a magnetic field and have a wire attached to the machine to deliver the current being created to the little light we see under the ring.

Or the ring could be a magnet, and a coil could surround it while it spins, creating the electricity, carried to the table by (you guessed it) a wire.

George can examine it closely for us to see if that's how it's arranged.




Nope, George said it isn't. Sorry. Sad

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At our local Starbucks they have "wireless" smartphone recharging pads built into the tables. At the counter you pick up a little recharging ring that has a plug compatible with your phone, and plug it in where your charging wire normally goes. Then you place your phone down on the table so the ring sits over the recharging pad. Boom. No wires to be seen. It's magic. Did George see any wires? Says no. He probably didn't notice that magnetic field either.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 25, 2016 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

orzel-w wrote:
At our local Starbucks they have "wireless" recharging pads built into the tables.

Crap, you got me!

I remember now that the Sonicare electric toothbrush I had several years ago had a recharger in the base that must have worked like that. There were no metal contract plates in the toothbrush's handle or the holder which was plugged in on the bathroom counter.

But the rechargeable batteries in the toothbrush were powered up by something like what you described.



Okay, so I guess we'll go with this idea. When the talking ring table was powered up normally, it would cause the rings to continue spinning after a manual start up by the person placing them on the table. The initial spin would deliver a low level charge to the table, and this activated the table's mechanism.

But when the table is not powered up, the rings would only operate for about 30 seconds on the "start up" charge they delivered by the normal, unassisted spinning motion, and then (as we see in the movie) the rings would slow, the power would fade, and the recording would grind to a halt.

By gum, I believe it could work just like that.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. . . So, frankly I can't come up with a way to explain the puzzling inconsistencies in the whole talking rings scene.

I just figured it was cheap exposition and left it at that.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scotpens wrote:
Bud Brewster wrote:
. . . So, frankly I can't come up with a way to explain the puzzling inconsistencies in the whole talking rings scene.

I just figured it was cheap exposition and left it at that.

Hey, where's the fun in that? We're the smart ones who can find a way to make this stuff work, even when the folks who made the movie left it hanging a bit!
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PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2016 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mentor Huebner (who was one of the concept artists on Forbidden Planet) worked briefly on The Time Machine. Here is his contribution — the origin of the time machine.


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PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2016 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks like a 1890's hair dryer.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still to this day I think this is Pal's best film!

Great adaptation, great characters well acted by great actors and a truly fabulous music score!
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always loved the "barber chair" depiction of the time machine.

I remember seeing it back in the 60's too. I read the Dell comics version first, and the machine was just a frame box with a chair in it!

I MUCH prefer this one!








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I was delighted that Dell did a Movie Classics edition for this wonderful movie. I spent a few hours cleaning up the damage caused by aging so that they would look as good possible.

I got the originals from The Captain Video Secret Sanctum, the same source I used for the other Dell Classic Movie editions I've posted.

Enjoy!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you Bud!

Artwork by the great and prolific Alex Toth.
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I wasn't surprised to discover that this movie has some wonderful trivia items. The text in blue below is from IMDM. Very Happy
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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.


_______ Time Machine (1960) Flat Screen TV appearance


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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.





The grand staircase leading up to the great dome is a famous MGM landmark among trivia buffs. Built for Kismet (1944), it was miraculously saved from razing by an executive who wisely thought maybe they could use it again. Situated outdoors on Lot-3, not far from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Street set, it showed up in numerous films and TV shows (twice on The Twilight Zone (1959)) over the years.





The "lava" in the volcano scene in downtown was actually oatmeal with orange and red food coloring spilled onto a platform and slowly moved down the miniature set.

__Destruction of London - The Time Machine (1960)


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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.





During the air raid scene, as all the people rush into the shelter a little girl crossing the street stops to pick something up that she dropped. When she does, you can quickly see she picks up a small Woody Woodpecker figure.

_____ Woody Woodpecker and the Time Machine


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Director George Pal was a close friend of fellow animator Walter Lantz, ever since Lantz did some cut-rate Woody Woodpecker work for Pal's Destination Moon (1950). As tribute, Pal tried to include Woody Woodpecker references in all his subsequent films. In the scenes where the Eloi are having a good time, every so often you can distinctly hear the "Woody Woodpecker" laugh.

Note from me: I've seen this movie over a dozen times (starting in 1960, at an Atlanta movie theater), and I've listened to audio tapes of it for years (both before and after VCR's and DVD's were invented). I've often noticed that the sound man used a tape loop for the happy Eloi sounds we hear from the time the Eloi leave the river until the scene in the dinning areas.

Trust me, folks. The high-pitched, twittering childlike laugh we hear over and over during those scenes is NOT Woody Woodpecker!
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Rod Taylor wanted Shirley Knight for the role of Weena.





Note from me: This might have been a good idea!

I mean, come on folks, let's be honest. Yvette Mimieux was an attractive teenage girl (she was barely 18 in this movie) but her "acting" can best be described as a blond block of wood. And it's not because she's playing a dimwitted Eloi, either. She's pure mahogany in every movie she's ever been in!

So, I think Miss Knight might have actually been better as Weena.


During George's stop on August 19, 1966, the air raid wardens were wearing the grey Bellerophon crew uniforms from Forbidden Planet (1956).





Note from me: Never trust IMDB trivia items. I'm sure I don't have to explain why this statement is bogus. Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
I mean, come on folks, let's be honest. Yvette Mimieux was an attractive teenage girl (she was barely 18 in this movie) but her "acting" can best be described as a blond block of wood. And it's not because she's playing a dimwitted Eloi, either. She's pure mahogany in every movie she's ever been in!

Ms. Mimieux wasn't a great actress by any means, but I never found her anything less than watchable. And no block of mahogany ever filled out a bikini like Yvette did!



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 22, 2017 11:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shirley Knight has long fascinated me.

I remember being shocked when I saw her in a movie from the early 60s. She was hot.

I was shocked because she built a 40 year career playing overweight, frumpy characters. I had no idea that a babe once existed there. BTW, she plays the mother of Kevin James title character in Paul Blart Mall Cop.
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