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The Time Machine

The Time Machine (17-Aug-1960)

Director: George Pal

Writer: David Duncan

From novel: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Music Score: Russell Garcia

Keywords: Sci-Fi, Time Travel

Victorian inventor creates a time machine and visits the future. Atomic weapons destroy civilization in 1966, and further in the future humanity has cleaved into two subterranean species, the Eloi and the mutant Morlocks who control them. Hollywood found it necessary to alter the cause of the calamity, which in H.G. Wells' novel was society's class system unconstrained. Won Oscar for Best Special Effects.

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