@@dennisznaniecke490 In a way it did. The movie earlier referred to atomic satellites that could target cities of the enemy on Earth. Incredibly the original book was written by H.H. Welles in 1895 and predicted 3 World Wars to come after the turn of the century in 1900 and even to our 21st century. Atomic energy was just a theory in 1895 and not much was known nor even radiation from what will be created by atomic bombs by 1945.
The miracle of this motion picture is just how well it still holds up, in spite of its utter lack of the modern, digital technology we take for granted today. Made for a fraction of what the fancy remake cost, it blew away the CGI version, a testament to both the prodigious acting talents of the original cast, and the incredible efforts of George Pal. Rod Taylor just passed on the 7th of January. RIP.
When I first saw this movie, it creeped me out like few horror movies have ever done. Most of the movie wasn't creepy, but the wailing air-raid sirens, the Morlock sphinx, and the talking rings grimly but calmly describing humanity's demise and dropping in pitch at the end - all that gave me the shivers. Most people my age don't know what it was like to live under the threat of nuclear war, but because of this movie, I think I grasp it when I hear an air-raid siren. It's the sound of something far more frightening than mere death: everything you know and love will be annihilated.
I'm only 33 but I grew up terrified of those sirens. I knew what they meant, I heard the stories of my Grandmother hiding in the subways at night to escape the bombs, running when the rats started to run by. Strange but as a kid I was fully aware that the world might end at the push of a button, and the wail of those terrible sirens. Just like the blast scene from The Day After!!
Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux were good actors. Also, while the Talking Rings were not a feature of the original H.G. Wells novel, they are faithful to his narrative. You can also see another such device, in the global holographic computer data base portrayed in the 2002 movie interpretation of the novel. Wells was a typical early twentieth century progressive, and wrong about a great many things, but when I look at this movie, in particular, and see this scene, in particular, I wonder if he may have been at least partially right in some of his pessimistic musings. Look at this scene with Weena and the Time Traveler. Weena and the other Eloi have access to a large database of incredible information about science and history that is beyond the imaginings of the Time Traveler, and yet she and the other Eloi lack the education and contextual knowledge that would allow them to understand what the Time Traveler has deduced and inferred from what he has learned. Look at this scene again, and ask yourself if you do not see a Boomer and a Millenial in the Time Traveler and Weena. Notice how the Time Traveler asks Weena to "Make it talk." SHE knows how, and she shows him "how to Google it," but she has no comprehension of the information that The Talking Rings impart, whereas the Time Traveler does. It makes me wonder if Wells was onto something.
Also, it is not JUST "stern horror;" the Time Traveler is contemptuous of the Eloi and what it is into which they have descended. Remember the scene where the Time Traveler is shown the moldering books? Remember the scene of his "rant" in the domed cafeteria? It is not just horror over realizing the plight of Weena and the Eloi, he also experiences contempt and disgust at the complacency of the Eloi and with their apparent loss of respect for learning and knowledge, and human life and dignity.
Anyone interested in history, politics, and philosophy can’t help but love this movie. When I was a kid, George was my hero. That debate about the fourth dimension at the beginning is priceless.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
Yes! Right up there with comedian Mitch H’s joke: a friend of mine showed me a picture of himself and said “this is one of me when I was younger.” I said, “EVERY PICTURE OF YOU IS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER! THINK ABOUT IT!”
I was born in 1988, and was introduced to this movie by my father when I was about ten years old. This fantastic piece of cinema has been an indelible piece of my imagination from my first seeing it. Thank you HG Wells for weaving rhis incredible story, and thank you to my father for first showing it to me
Thank you, George Pal, Rod Taylor and the rest of the cast and crew who put this wondrous film together. Russell Garcia composed a wondrous score to this great film.
I have placed that original score album, (both sides) on my page...By Russell Garcia...You may want to check out sometime ! His work was brilliant.. This was just a total achievement all around..
These talking rings are an excellent idea to represent what could be perceived as a very advanced media format instead of cassette, tape or CD which became banal or obsolete with the passage of time.
technical almost all form of media have the same problem the are digital and demand a complex technology with manny diffrent parts and compoment. Even if you save all english writhen books inside one singel 5 cm diamond. it became worthless if you have no technology to read it. A book can be used to get the information out of it aslong people can read this english and aslong it don't rotten. a microfilm can store a picture and all you need was light and some lenses. and an LP can by played and the recording hear aslong you have a fine nedal. a slow spining mechanic and a mechical amplifier( what could be a papiercup)
I knew I was destined to be a voice actor when I first heard the voice of Paul Frees, who you hear in this clip as the talking rings. I think I first heard his voice in the trailer for a sci-fi classic called “Atlantis, the lost continent.” I was nine years old, and didn’t get to see “the Time Machine” until four or five years later when it popped up on TV. I found it very interesting to see Alan Young in a dramatic role, because I only knew him as Wilbur Post from the Mr. Ed TV show. People often ask why we don’t see the same quality of film projects today as we did 60 or 70 years ago, and the reason is they drew a larger portion of society as viewers… whereas today we have so many choices that almost no films get to be legendary like Star Wars or Avatar or other top box office hits.
Many more movies were made in the days of the studio system, plus there was radio. Actors like Paul Frees could earn a nice living working six days a week on multiple radio shows, and they were usually live. So you learned to be a pro, play to the listener's imagination, and sound like different people so you got more work.
Seeing this as a ten year old in 1960, the Morlocks terrified me and every other kid in the theater. I had a crush on Yvette after seeing the film, too. I had seen Rod Taylor in a Twilight Zone episode in 1959. I later learned they finished filming in June, four months before his TZ appearance. It was his first starring role in a movie and he was great.
One of the five greatest sci-fi movies of all times! The beautiful Time Machine, the talking rings and the Elois. The talking rings and the light on it was an ingenious idea!
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.
@@doughelms558 Indeed! & here's where the Synchronicity kicks in... He did the same vocal style in ANOTHER George Pal Sci/Fi Classic 'War of the Worlds'! Of course... made famous (or, infamous) in the US by Orsen Wells!
Still my fav movie (since i was at least 10/11 yrs old). hah feel like compulsively downloading this. hg wells never fails. good night time machine. xo
these rings scared the heck out of me when I first watched this movie as a little kid. especially the things that were being said during the spin of the first one
George Pal produced some of my favorite movies. The Time Machine, When Worlds Collide, and Destination Moon among them. He had hoped to make a sequel to The Time Machine, but unfortunately was never able to do so.
The talking rings are a simple, low budget prop, that is elegant, engaging, and memorable. Anyone who has ever seen the movie remembers the rings. All done with no CGI, no elaborate sets, no explosions.
Same here. One thing I didn't like about the remake is that we're supposed to believe that a 21st century computer could last 800,000 years. But these rings are based on an unknown technology that they don't bother to explain. So who's to say how long they would last?
According to the draft script of the film by David Duncan, dated 1959 (which is available online), the 326th year of the final war was 4829, hence this war began in 4503. This raises even more questions regarding the changing landscape prior to 802701, after the volcanic rock around George and the time machine erodes away. Who built those white buildings around the English countryside (prior to the construction of the Sphinx) and later the Eloi hall, which once had an adjoining tower? Why have the seasons vanished (as noted by George: "There was no winter...")? From the time dial footage at the end of the movie (when George returns to 1900), it is shown that the outside world of the future was only visible after AD 500,000 or so (note the sunlight shining on the dials). This means that the white buildings, Sphinx and Eloi hall were all built during the last 300,000 years prior to 802701. But by whom? The Eloi are too weak and dumb to have built such structures, while the Morlocks certainly could not have built them under the Sun...
I've wondered about that myself. The time traveller witnessed three world wars in the 20th century, the last being the most destructive and devastating, triggering off widespread volcanic activity. Were the bombs detonated along the tectonic plates and faults in the earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes? The time traveler's machine was engulfed in by the rising magma, but was not destroyed due to his travelling through time. The molten rock then cooled and rapidly solidified (from the time traveler's viewpoint). At this point, we do not know what humanity's fate is. He wonders if humanity survived and whether the war is still going on. We then see two readings on the machine's dial. It rapidly approaches the year 10,000 on the first reading. When we see the display again, it is approaching the year 100,000. Shortly after that, again from the time traveler's viewpoint, the rock finally erodes away and he look upon the scene of a recovering, verdant Earth. Behind him, a wall goes up, then structures appear in the landscape, then fade away. He states that, "Thousands of centuries have passed, and the earth has stayed green. There's no winter, no wars...and man has finally learned to tame both the earth and himself. I have to find out." But he stops too quick, and ends up in the year 802,701. The talking rings state that a long war (4503-4829) is at an end and describes the beginning of the divergence of humans into two distinct species. Those who chose a life underground became the troglodyte Morlocks, while those who chose to remain on the surface became the Eloi. Now, since the end of WWIII, civilisation recovered until the next global conflict of 4503. At the end of that war, both groups of survivors went their separate ways, with the cave dwellers having access to machines which were part of a network of underground settlements built during the conflict. Those on the surface, however, had to start all over again from scratch, eventually rebuilding what seemed to be a very advanced civilisation. Now, in keeping with the anti war theme of the movie, did humanity go through cycles of war and peace, with civilisations rising and falling after the 4503 war? And did this last trace of civilisation on Earth advance to the point where their technology created a stagnating society where no further progress was possible? The novel alludes to this, that a state of absolute permanency had been reached, which ironically lead to the demise of that civilisation. Meanwhile, the underground dwellers gradually devolved into a primal form, and their food sources began to run out. Over time, their need to survive took priority over technology, and they turned to the only source of food available to them, which was on the surface.
You're assuming the eloi were always like that. They would have evolved over the millennia just like the Morlocks, both were the same race around 4829. Maybe around 500000 when the buildings were being built they weren't so passive and more able to look after themselves, but 300000 years of Morlock dominance had made them weak and feeble by the time the traveler arrives.
Stephen Baxter's sequel 'The Time Ships,' (authorized by Well's estate) speculates that there may have been a third race during the hundreds of thousands of years the time traveler skips over, who were extremely advanced technologically and abandoned the planet at some point. (This is used to explain why the time traveler sees the sun dying less than thirty million years in the future when it should last another five billion years; They tinkered with the sun in some way and messed up.) Maybe they're the ones that built the things neither Eloi or Morlock could have.
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"From the talking rings, I learned how the human race divided itself and how the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks began. By some awful quirk of fate, the Morlocks had become the masters and the Eloi their servants. The Morlocks maintain them and bred them like cattle only to take them below when they reached maturity, which explained why there were no older people among them. Now I knew I must go below. It was the only means of finding a way up into the sphinx, to reach my machine and to find out what happened to the little people when they did go below."
This is a deliberate distortion of Wells' Marxist theme: the Morlocks were brutalised factory workers (prols) and the Eloi the effete bourgeoisie who had become dependent on the workers...
This amazing, imaginative, really stunning movie in its sweeping story. A masterpiece. Plus, unlike the remake a dozen years ago, its not about us- our time. In this movie our time, us, are utterly forgotten, which is likely how it will be in 800,000 years...
Paul Frees, who voiced "my name is of no consequence", also did the Ghost Host for Disney's Haunted Mansion. Whenever I watch this video I always think of "There's no turning back now! (sinister laugh)"
This scene is a perfect metaphor for the adage ignorance is bliss, and the intelligent are doomed to a life of sorrow. Weena and her people don't understand what the rings talk about, and she continues to smile as the rings play, but George understands perfectly, and as he listens the smile of fascination fades from his face as he learns we damaged the earth to the point we became shadows of ourselves.
"I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceive that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief. And he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." I've always remembered that line, ever since Al Mualim said it in Assassins Creed, quoting Ecclesiastes 1:17. Ignorance it seems truly is bliss.
perhaps he grab the once that look the lesser used. as she say it. they speak about things nobody understand. perhaps one outer ring contain a song one artist want preserved this way. and this ring was played way way more offent as all outhers and look over fingerprints and lesser dust way more used...
It was the old man calling “the mushrooms are coming” that scared me witless as a kid. I saw it on TV in the very early Seventies when I as about 12. Old enough to know that Armageddon was in the air and we lived next to a major military “target” in UK so we would have been frazzled in an instant. Incredible film that has always stood the test of time. And the bonus is, humanity hasn’t destroyed itself - yet……
Love this movie from the first time I saw it in the 60’s. The voice of the talking rings sounds like Paul Frees of Disney voice over fame, and Rankin-Bass programs.
One of the wonderous moments, of this splendid film... Thanx for this...! ! ! I have placed the original complete soundtrack of this film on my page..you may enjoy.
I had the great honor of holding the Oscar that my boss at the time, Tim Baar, received for the Special Effects on this movie. Along with Gene Warren I believe.
A wonderful and unforgettable movie. Rod Taylor with the beautiful and sweet Yvette Mimieux made a perfect couple. So way much better than the marvel trash we have today.
Jan. 31, 2019----Man of man....Yvette Mimeaux was so god damned hot in this and her other movies. Especially liked Jackson County Jail movie. And have this movie as VHS and dvd, along with the remake they did as a dvd. Both great classics. Thanks for the video clip.
Yeah, but no. That was the ONE thing about the 2002 movie that was better than the original. The holo-Liberian was able to interact to fill in some of the gaps. The rings are just a monologue, but it never occurred to the scriptwriter to have some sort of interaction in the original.
A "timeless movie".........and it still remains the best adaptation of the classic HG Wells novel. It's a wonder there haven't been more attempts, as there hasn't been a movie yet which has really brought the full potential of the novel alive - but George Pal's 1960 attempt was certainly a great try.
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording. Prior to the development of sound recording, there were mechanical systems for encoding and reproducing instrumental music, such as wind-up music boxes and, later, player pianos. Acoustic analog recording is achieved by a microphone diaphragm that can detect and sense the changes in atmospheric pressure caused by acoustic sound waves and record them as a mechanical representation of the sound waves on a medium such as a phonograph record (in which a stylus cuts grooves on a record). In magnetic tape recording, the sound waves vibrate the microphone diaphragm and are converted into a varying electric current, which is then converted to a varying magnetic field by an electromagnet, which makes a representation of the sound as magnetized areas on a plastic tape with a magnetic coating on it. Analog sound reproduction is the reverse process, with a bigger loudspeaker diaphragm causing changes to atmospheric pressure to form acoustic sound waves. Oscillations may also be recorded directly from devices such as an electric guitar pickup or a synthesizer, without the use of acoustics in the recording process, other than the need for musicians to hear how well they are playing during recording sessions via headphones. Digital recording and reproduction converts the analog sound signal picked up by the microphone to a digital form by the process of digitization. This lets the audio data be stored and transmitted by a wider variety of media. Digital recording stores audio as a series of binary numbers (zeros and ones) representing samples of the amplitude of the audio signal at equal time intervals, at a sample rate high enough to convey all sounds capable of being heard. Digital recordings are considered higher quality than analog recordings not necessarily because they have higher fidelity (wider frequency response or dynamic range), but because the digital format can prevent much loss of quality found in analog recording due to noise and electromagnetic interference in playback and mechanical deterioration or damage to the storage medium. Whereas successive copies of an analog recording tend to degrade in quality, as more noise is added, a digital audio recording can be reproduced endlessly with no degradation in sound quality. A digital audio signal must be reconverted to analog form during playback before it is amplified and connected to a loudspeaker to produce sound.
Thank you for that explanation. The movie came out in 1959, yet by 1957, "Max Mathews of Bell Labs recorded the first computer-generated music, a 17-second piece called "The Silver Scale" composed by his co-worker Newman Guttman" (From Wikipedia). Optical video recording technology, using a transparent disc, (laser disc) was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1963 (and patented in 1970 and 1990). Compact discs are "an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a focused laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980." (Wikipedia) I wonder if the "rings" were another sci-fi "invention" that later "birthed" compact discs, much like cell phones today were sci-fi "inventions" first seen in Star Trek. I remember reading somewhere that engineers thought Star Trek's communicators were so cool that they wanted to build a real one... and they did. 😺
"My name is of no consequence"- The Ghost Host Yeah but in all seriousness that's the voice of Paul Frees, the narrator for three attractions at Disneyland, The Haunted Mansion, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and the extinct ride Adventures Thru Inner Space; and he provides many voices for Pirates of The Caribbean. When I first heard his voice I automatically said to myself that this was perfect casting, who else could provide the voice for the last remaining remnants of human society in the future, just so fitting and chilling. Its also interesting because Paul Frees appears again in the 1960s version of the war of the worlds for a scene, another HG Wells novel of course. Disney must have viewed these movies and decided he was their pick, makes sense since this movie predates all those attractions. I wish he had recorded audiobooks because his voice was just incredible.
It's worth it just to hear those master voices of the past: Sir Laurence Olivier, and Paul Frees, in quick succession. This is exactly whom I would choose us to be represented to the Future World.
''The war between the East and West which is in its 326th year, has at last come to an end''. ''The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs, that it can no longer be breathed.'' I can never get out of my mind of what and how a war could last for 3 centuries! I look back at the beginning of WWIII in 1966 and I cannot see how it could have continued THAT long! I mean the Atomic Satellites virtually did over 95% of the death and destruction in the first attacks. And with the geological structure ruptured because of the blasts and molten rock rising to the surface to finish the job certainly was the 5%. World War III: 1966 - 2289.
I'm pretty sure that nuclear weapons weren't the only things to make the war last that long. The governments at the time would've also used conventional warfare as well for territorial expansionism too.
Well Tyler you did see the power of the atomic satellites. I mean they were strong enough to cause a geological surge, but then again that was probably in a specific place. However seeing as they were satellites that the possibility of the atmosphere being evaporated was more than likely. Still god knows what tech was available at the time of the start of WWIII, however the possiblity of chemical weapons being used as well are very great.
Falkor The Luck Dragon™ Thanks 4 the reply! Can't wait to see what "theory" YOU might have to offer to this FASCINATING discussion on how the "strange new world" of 802,701 AD REALLY came into being! Okay...take care! ;-)
+animal16365 I'm so sorry, but I decided to delete that story, because I thought that, historically, it "didn't seem to make sense". For example, Spain, in 1966, was one of the countries the Soviets attacked in my story. But, in reality, Spain did NOT join NATO until 1982! In fact, the ONLY REAL nuclear "incident" that country was involved in, was when a US/NATO B-52 bomber plane carrying thermonuclear bombs crashed near the town of Palomeres, in (I think) January of that year (1966), and the country was, like I said, NOT part of NATO for another 16 years after that incident. It was that fact, among other things, that virtually "blew my story out of the water"! That just goes to show us that fantasy and reality are like oil and water...two different things that JUST DON'T mix! Maybe I should NOT be a fiction writer, after all, because of my (obvious and apparent) INABILITY to "suspend disbelief for the sake of enjoyment"! ;-) Again, sorry, and "better luck next time" (IF I should ever decide to try writing fiction again!). CHEERS! :-)
Tom O'Connor yeah but it was happy surprise seeing him hunched over as Churchill in Inglorious Bastards for his final role. First close up they gave him just clicked when he said, “brief him”. I was like, “No way, Rod Taylor!”
I really wish they did more with this scene, I would like to have heard what some of the other rings had to say. There's a major information gap between humanity being a war weary but otherwise independent to a blissfully ignorant slave race. I also wonder if the Morlocks really were the people who took refuge beneath the surface. They weren't really that deep below and if they had technology on par with the talking rings, I'd imagine they'd be at least living in vaults like in fallout. For all we know, there's a technologically advanced human race living a mile or so underground and no one would no it. Overall, it would have been interesting if H.G. Wells had expanded this story, shown how else the world could have changed. Only what was once London was shown here, the rest of the planet could have been entirely different.
+aHaryBilYrdBall Welles's novel is a socialist dystopia that posits a class struggle that has effectively been extended by hundreds of thousands of years. The Morlocks are the brutalized remnants of the producer class (industrial workers), the Eloi the clueless, disorganized, and effete remnants of the aristocratic one. Both have devolved such that the original class conflict has been forgotten, but has long since been locked in place until the actions of the Time Traveler disrupt it -- at least locally.
Yeah so true I wish like I read in the other comments that they would include a deleted scene from the other talking rings to here what was recorded on the other rings to learn what was left out of our missing past for those people
My take on this is that several civilisations came and went during our time traveler's journey from the 1960s to the year 802701. Those talking rings could have been a product from that last civilisation he saw when the rock wore away around him....or an earlier era.
judging by the pipes and ladder remains I think the morlocks at one point WERE living in some state of the art underground complex, but much like Rome to US something happened in their subterranean fortress that resulted in it's collapse, my guess is they eventually mutated into what we saw from generations of breeding in a highly radioactive environment, perhaps the bunker wasn't completely airtight, maybe it was nuclear powered and it melted down at some point, maybe the giant underground world simply outbred it's capacity to sustain itself in a post nuclear enviornment.
I'm only 33 but I loved this movie when I was a kid. The sphinx and the landscapes are so creepy. I read the book a number of times as a child too. The movie's spin on it, the air raid sirens that call the Eloi underground, how they knew the stories the talking rings told, that the end of the sirens meant All Clear - so cool
The book is very different in that the time traveller goes to the future with seemingly no specific era he wants to go to. He actually ends up in the year 802701 by accident, then discovers the fate of humanity there. He also travels further in time some 30,000,000 years in the future where he ends up on a dying Earth and a large, dimming red Sun. I still liked this movie though as it ends on an optimistic note.
I did look over David Duncan's script & it appears to be an original rough draft. That script did mention a later war in 4053 A.D. in the Talking Ring scene but seems to be omitted in the final film. Duncan's script also mentions in the 1966 pre-attack scene an ambulance passing George, and the bomb blast rerouting the Thames River - I don't recall seeing those things in the film. (There was a TOHO movie from 1962 called "The Last War" that has a volcano form in H-Bomb devastated Tokyo.) The Soviets were found to have stashed away World War II fighter planes and military gear in caves, so it is plausible that the 1966 war continued with conventional weapons to some degree after the nuclear exchange. There may have been biological weapons that weren't destroyed in the nuclear exchange that were used later and "Filled the air with deadly germs". The British descendants of the 1966 war survivors probably noted that the Soviets were no longer attacking them 326 years later and declared that the war is over. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and other communist nations were referred to as "The East" and the non-communist nations were referred to as "The West". I wonder if the monorail train in the 1966 scene was one that was sold in the Disneyland toy store? There could have been later wars, between "Tribes" of the British descendants that would account for the fallen tower and other destroyed buildings.
The talking rings are voiced by actor Paul Frees, he did many movie and cartoon voices, Rocky and Bullwinkle's Boris Badenov, Disney's Ludwig Von Drake, they dubbed his voice for Humphrey Bogart's last movie due to Bogie's throat cancer.
To me, it seems inconceivable that any war like this would last 326 years. If those orbital satelites in 1966 had the strength to cause the catastrophic damage seen to London, then how would other countries of the world continue to maintain a population large enough to continue the fighting at a later time?
Those few chilling words from the rings contain more story than most enire movies. George Pal wanted to make a sequel, but alas...I can recommend the Time Ships though if anyone is interested in reading a non HG Wells sequel.
The ring voices sound like Paul Frees. A friend told me about him and now I notice how often he was used in movies and TV. He was to voices what the Wrecking Crew was to 1960s Top 40 hits.
"From the talking rings, I discovered how the world the morlocks and the eloi begun. Buy some awful quirk of fate, the morlocks had become the Masters and the Eloi their servants. The Eloi had been bred and maintained like...like cattle until they had reached maturity. Which explained why there were no older people among them."-- H.G. Wells
You didn't read the book didja? Cause that's not in the book. There are no talking rings. The time traveler only speculates what happened. Weena is pretty much an adult and evolution from not having to work hard as a necessity, or survive or be strong caused them to grow smaller.
There was actually a modern Americanized version of this story based along racial lines written in the 1970s. The whites were the Eloi, and the blacks were the Morlocks. However, the blacks were not living underground (they lived separately above ground), they were not barbarically wordless (in fact, they were intellectually gifted), and they comprised the majority of the population. The whites had been enslaved (a historical turning of the tables), and only the members of the black elite fed upon the whites as a means of acquiring greater knowledge and strength. Only in the 70s!
This movie is 63 years old and still great, better than most movies made today.
Did this movie predict nuclear winter??
@@dennisznaniecke490 In a way it did. The movie earlier referred to atomic satellites that could target cities of the enemy on Earth. Incredibly the original book was written by H.H. Welles in 1895 and predicted 3 World Wars to come after the turn of the century in 1900 and even to our 21st century. Atomic energy was just a theory in 1895 and not much was known nor even radiation from what will be created by atomic bombs by 1945.
Nope, but it is a good movie, lame rant notwithstanding.
@@dennisznaniecke490 No, it was a known thing.
@@redbarchetta8782movies today suck dont be a simp and try to defend everything!
The miracle of this motion picture is just how well it still holds up, in spite of its utter lack of the modern, digital technology we take for granted today. Made for a fraction of what the fancy remake cost, it blew away the CGI version, a testament to both the prodigious acting talents of the original cast, and the incredible efforts of George Pal. Rod Taylor just passed on the 7th of January. RIP.
Yes. Some of the old movies are better than today's stuff
tiffsaver Nailed it! One of my favorite flicks. Ever! (Along with the Twilight Zone)
+Sean DeMarco Garcia
I'm 66 and I've watched every TZ Marathon since they started. This isn't just great television, it's ART.
+tiffsaver I HIGHLY recommend the boxed set on Blu Ray. You will not be disappointed. :)
+Sean DeMarco Garcia
Cool.
When I first saw this movie, it creeped me out like few horror movies have ever done. Most of the movie wasn't creepy, but the wailing air-raid sirens, the Morlock sphinx, and the talking rings grimly but calmly describing humanity's demise and dropping in pitch at the end - all that gave me the shivers. Most people my age don't know what it was like to live under the threat of nuclear war, but because of this movie, I think I grasp it when I hear an air-raid siren. It's the sound of something far more frightening than mere death: everything you know and love will be annihilated.
Hello! We still live under the threat of nuclear war, every siingle day. Nothing changed.
I'm only 33 but I grew up terrified of those sirens. I knew what they meant, I heard the stories of my Grandmother hiding in the subways at night to escape the bombs, running when the rats started to run by.
Strange but as a kid I was fully aware that the world might end at the push of a button, and the wail of those terrible sirens.
Just like the blast scene from The Day After!!
@@petergraves5649 Just with a slimmer chance compare to our parents; and grandparents' time.
@@okamijubei Yes, they produce more and more weapons. Maybe they will be willing to use them one day..I hope I won't live to see that day...
Thank you trump!
“My name is of no consequence.....”
I always respected that guy.
He didn’t have the luxury of ego, having gone through what he did
That line got to me, too!
I have written my future obituary with that line as my opener...
@@Kharkovkid nice!
"... but some call me the Dread Pirate Roberts."
I love how The Time Travellers face turns from fascination to stern horror.
Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux were good actors. Also, while the Talking Rings were not a feature of the original H.G. Wells novel, they are faithful to his narrative. You can also see another such device, in the global holographic computer data base portrayed in the 2002 movie interpretation of the novel. Wells was a typical early twentieth century progressive, and wrong about a great many things, but when I look at this movie, in particular, and see this scene, in particular, I wonder if he may have been at least partially right in some of his pessimistic musings. Look at this scene with Weena and the Time Traveler. Weena and the other Eloi have access to a large database of incredible information about science and history that is beyond the imaginings of the Time Traveler, and yet she and the other Eloi lack the education and contextual knowledge that would allow them to understand what the Time Traveler has deduced and inferred from what he has learned. Look at this scene again, and ask yourself if you do not see a Boomer and a Millenial in the Time Traveler and Weena. Notice how the Time Traveler asks Weena to "Make it talk." SHE knows how, and she shows him "how to Google it," but she has no comprehension of the information that The Talking Rings impart, whereas the Time Traveler does. It makes me wonder if Wells was onto something.
Also, it is not JUST "stern horror;" the Time Traveler is contemptuous of the Eloi and what it is into which they have descended. Remember the scene where the Time Traveler is shown the moldering books? Remember the scene of his "rant" in the domed cafeteria? It is not just horror over realizing the plight of Weena and the Eloi, he also experiences contempt and disgust at the complacency of the Eloi and with their apparent loss of respect for learning and knowledge, and human life and dignity.
@@deepfriedsammich astute observation and I concur wholeheartedly
@Phillip Kruger
Right away. They are unmistakable.
It illustrates a basic axiom of the search for knowledge: Be careful of the questions you ask, in case you learn the answers.
How beautiful Yvette Mimieux was. RIP
Didn't know she died. Thanks for that. I adored her.
@@richardmoloney689she was adorable in this movie
She was in Disney's first PG-rated film, The Black Hole as Dr. Kate McCrae.
Anyone interested in history, politics, and philosophy can’t help but love this movie. When I was a kid, George was my hero. That debate about the fourth dimension at the beginning is priceless.
forth or fourth?
@@elemar5 - Indeed, “fourth,” my typo stands corrected😱
And the missing books in his shelf.
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams
Yes! Right up there with comedian Mitch H’s joke: a friend of mine showed me a picture of himself and said “this is one of me when I was younger.” I said, “EVERY PICTURE OF YOU IS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER! THINK ABOUT IT!”
Life...there it goes.
Everything from 1 minute ago to a mere 1 second ago is all in the past. Think about it even as I type this.
@@richardyoung9024 That was a year ago !
The brilliance of using a rotating ring that one could describe as a spinning metallic disk to playback recorded sound in 1960...
Its a 💿 CD.
You mean like a record player?
@@InvisibleHotdog
Record player, or CD, or DVD, this movie got it right a long time ago.
@@tiffsaver the phonograph came out like 80 years before this movie
@@InvisibleHotdog The Edison *_wax cylinder_* phonograph, not a flat turntable with a disc.
I was born in 1988, and was introduced to this movie by my father when I was about ten years old.
This fantastic piece of cinema has been an indelible piece of my imagination from my first seeing it.
Thank you HG Wells for weaving rhis incredible story, and thank you to my father for first showing it to me
Thank you, George Pal, Rod Taylor and the rest of the cast and crew who put this wondrous film together. Russell Garcia composed a wondrous score to this great film.
I have placed that original score album, (both sides) on my page...By Russell
Garcia...You may want to check out sometime ! His work was brilliant..
This was just a total achievement all around..
Walter Fechter this film made my childhood
These talking rings are an excellent idea to represent what could be perceived as a very advanced media format instead of cassette, tape or CD which became banal or obsolete with the passage of time.
But still cannot beat the quartz discs. Which it wasn't thought of during the film.
technical almost all form of media have the same problem the are digital and demand a complex technology with manny diffrent parts and compoment. Even if you save all english writhen books inside one singel 5 cm diamond.
it became worthless if you have no technology to read it.
A book can be used to get the information out of it aslong people can read this english and aslong it don't rotten.
a microfilm can store a picture and all you need was light and some lenses. and an LP can by played and the recording hear aslong you have a fine nedal. a slow spining mechanic and a mechical amplifier( what could be a papiercup)
I knew I was destined to be a voice actor when I first heard the voice of Paul Frees, who you hear in this clip as the talking rings. I think I first heard his voice in the trailer for a sci-fi classic called “Atlantis, the lost continent.” I was nine years old, and didn’t get to see “the Time Machine” until four or five years later when it popped up on TV. I found it very interesting to see Alan Young in a dramatic role, because I only knew him as Wilbur Post from the Mr. Ed TV show. People often ask why we don’t see the same quality of film projects today as we did 60 or 70 years ago, and the reason is they drew a larger portion of society as viewers… whereas today we have so many choices that almost no films get to be legendary like Star Wars or Avatar or other top box office hits.
Many more movies were made in the days of the studio system, plus there was radio. Actors like Paul Frees could earn a nice living working six days a week on multiple radio shows, and they were usually live. So you learned to be a pro, play to the listener's imagination, and sound like different people so you got more work.
Fan of Rod Taylor ever since watching this as a kid, classic
Love the guy. I wish more actors were as respectful as he was.
Seeing this as a ten year old in 1960, the Morlocks terrified me and every other kid in the theater. I had a crush on Yvette after seeing the film, too. I had seen Rod Taylor in a Twilight Zone episode in 1959. I later learned they finished filming in June, four months before his TZ appearance. It was his first starring role in a movie and he was great.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_When_the_Sky_Was_Opened
Yes, and the ominous sound of dreaded machines that came out of the holes in the ground gave me chills for years after.
One of the five greatest sci-fi movies of all times! The beautiful Time Machine, the talking rings and the Elois.
The talking rings and the light on it was an ingenious idea!
One of my favorite classic syfi films R.I.P. Rod Taylor 1930 - 2015
this was his first starring role too. he did an amazing job.
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.
She sadly left us last year aged 80. RIP Yvette Mimieux. 😢
Yvette was perfect as the naive child like Eloi girl .
the best version ever !
Yvette was fine. RIP Weena!
"And when they are gone, WE MUST DIE..."
The talking rings are voiced by the late great Paul Frees.
Doing his Orsen Wells impression.
@David Roberts Right, Some of them were voiced by Ringo.
@@doughelms558 Indeed! & here's where the Synchronicity kicks in... He did the same vocal style in ANOTHER George Pal Sci/Fi Classic 'War of the Worlds'! Of course... made famous (or, infamous) in the US by Orsen Wells!
I recognized it from Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers
People of Earth, Attention. This Is Your Final Warning.
Yvette died in 2022, such an effortless beauty.
Best film version of the time machine !
Still my fav movie (since i was at least 10/11 yrs old). hah feel like compulsively downloading this. hg wells never fails. good night time machine. xo
Melanie, I couldn't agree with you more.
This is still one of my favorite time travel movies, and the first one l ever saw.
F22Raptor5000 me too.
I saw it in 1960 when it first came out. I was 8 at the time, and it totally blew me away.
these rings scared the heck out of me when I first watched this movie as a little kid. especially the things that were being said during the spin of the first one
If they keep spinning, doesn't that mean you're still in a dream?
George Pal produced some of my favorite movies. The Time Machine, When Worlds Collide, and Destination Moon among them. He had hoped to make a sequel to The Time Machine, but unfortunately was never able to do so.
love the idea of talking rings....brilliant movie
scott walker film truly withstands the rest of time
Saw this as kid in 1962 and the "rings" blew my mind. TO INFINITY AND BEYOUND ! Patent 672245, 3190554, 3013505 .
The talking rings are a simple, low budget prop, that is elegant, engaging, and memorable. Anyone who has ever seen the movie remembers the rings. All done with no CGI, no elaborate sets, no explosions.
Same here. One thing I didn't like about the remake is that we're supposed to believe that a 21st century computer could last 800,000 years. But these rings are based on an unknown technology that they don't bother to explain. So who's to say how long they would last?
@@jsat5609 - i didn't remember the rings - i remembered pretty much everything else tho
According to the draft script of the film by David Duncan, dated 1959 (which is available online), the 326th year of the final war was 4829, hence this war began in 4503.
This raises even more questions regarding the changing landscape prior to 802701, after the volcanic rock around George and the time machine erodes away. Who built those white buildings around the English countryside (prior to the construction of the Sphinx) and later the Eloi hall, which once had an adjoining tower? Why have the seasons vanished (as noted by George: "There was no winter...")?
From the time dial footage at the end of the movie (when George returns to 1900), it is shown that the outside world of the future was only visible after AD 500,000 or so (note the sunlight shining on the dials). This means that the white buildings, Sphinx and Eloi hall were all built during the last 300,000 years prior to 802701. But by whom? The Eloi are too weak and dumb to have built such structures, while the Morlocks certainly could not have built them under the Sun...
I've wondered about that myself. The time traveller witnessed three world wars in the 20th century, the last being the most destructive and devastating, triggering off widespread volcanic activity. Were the bombs detonated along the tectonic plates and faults in the earth's crust, causing massive earthquakes? The time traveler's machine was engulfed in by the rising magma, but was not destroyed due to his travelling through time. The molten rock then cooled and rapidly solidified (from the time traveler's viewpoint). At this point, we do not know what humanity's fate is. He wonders if humanity survived and whether the war is still going on. We then see two readings on the machine's dial. It rapidly approaches the year 10,000 on the first reading. When we see the display again, it is approaching the year 100,000. Shortly after that, again from the time traveler's viewpoint, the rock finally erodes away and he look upon the scene of a recovering, verdant Earth. Behind him, a wall goes up, then structures appear in the landscape, then fade away. He states that, "Thousands of centuries have passed, and the earth has stayed green. There's no winter, no wars...and man has finally learned to tame both the earth and himself. I have to find out." But he stops too quick, and ends up in the year 802,701. The talking rings state that a long war (4503-4829) is at an end and describes the beginning of the divergence of humans into two distinct species. Those who chose a life underground became the troglodyte Morlocks, while those who chose to remain on the surface became the Eloi. Now, since the end of WWIII, civilisation recovered until the next global conflict of 4503. At the end of that war, both groups of survivors went their separate ways, with the cave dwellers having access to machines which were part of a network of underground settlements built during the conflict. Those on the surface, however, had to start all over again from scratch, eventually rebuilding what seemed to be a very advanced civilisation. Now, in keeping with the anti war theme of the movie, did humanity go through cycles of war and peace, with civilisations rising and falling after the 4503 war? And did this last trace of civilisation on Earth advance to the point where their technology created a stagnating society where no further progress was possible? The novel alludes to this, that a state of absolute permanency had been reached, which ironically lead to the demise of that civilisation. Meanwhile, the underground dwellers gradually devolved into a primal form, and their food sources began to run out. Over time, their need to survive took priority over technology, and they turned to the only source of food available to them, which was on the surface.
The war began in the 45th century and ended in the 48th century.
You're assuming the eloi were always like that. They would have evolved over the millennia just like the Morlocks, both were the same race around 4829. Maybe around 500000 when the buildings were being built they weren't so passive and more able to look after themselves, but 300000 years of Morlock dominance had made them weak and feeble by the time the traveler arrives.
Stephen Baxter's sequel 'The Time Ships,' (authorized by Well's estate) speculates that there may have been a third race during the hundreds of thousands of years the time traveler skips over, who were extremely advanced technologically and abandoned the planet at some point. (This is used to explain why the time traveler sees the sun dying less than thirty million years in the future when it should last another five billion years; They tinkered with the sun in some way and messed up.) Maybe they're the ones that built the things neither Eloi or Morlock could have.
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I miss Mr. Taylor, he was soooo awesome in this movie and The Birds
"From the talking rings, I learned how the human race divided itself and how the world of the Eloi and the Morlocks began. By some awful quirk of fate, the Morlocks had become the masters and the Eloi their servants. The Morlocks maintain them and bred them like cattle only to take them below when they reached maturity, which explained why there were no older people among them. Now I knew I must go below. It was the only means of finding a way up into the sphinx, to reach my machine and to find out what happened to the little people when they did go below."
Exactly what goes on today . You are chattel property of the Government ! And they Dumb down each generation with their crappy School System .
This is a deliberate distortion of Wells' Marxist theme: the Morlocks were brutalised factory workers (prols) and the Eloi the effete bourgeoisie who had become dependent on the workers...
Well... Then, they believe there's only two... But now these days... Likely humans can evolve into 4 or more species.
@@okamijubei Stop talking out of your ass.
This was such a clever bit.
This amazing, imaginative, really stunning movie in its sweeping story. A masterpiece. Plus, unlike the remake a dozen years ago, its not about us- our time. In this movie our time, us, are utterly forgotten, which is likely how it will be in 800,000 years...
Paul Frees, who voiced "my name is of no consequence", also did the Ghost Host for Disney's Haunted Mansion. Whenever I watch this video I always think of "There's no turning back now! (sinister laugh)"
Rest In Peace, Weena.
The costumes in the movie are stunning I like rod Tyler's Shaw collar jacket
This is a great film that stands the test of time.
Especially when you see the flat screen television in Filbys department store in 1966.
This scene is a perfect metaphor for the adage ignorance is bliss, and the intelligent are doomed to a life of sorrow. Weena and her people don't understand what the rings talk about, and she continues to smile as the rings play, but George understands perfectly, and as he listens the smile of fascination fades from his face as he learns we damaged the earth to the point we became shadows of ourselves.
"I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceive that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief. And he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow."
I've always remembered that line, ever since Al Mualim said it in Assassins Creed, quoting Ecclesiastes 1:17. Ignorance it seems truly is bliss.
A great classic. Just as great as the book, even.
1960, and it still holds up even today.
I recently watched this movie..I love it
Those talking rings are in a neat scene in The Time Machine.
I've always thought that the producers of the movies got the talking rings wrong, they were really spun flat and were actually CD's!
Really, 1960! They just might of nailed it ,,whenever this movie comes on,I watch it!!
Paul Frees. What an amazing voice he had. 👍
There's a scene in 1966 where a store window displays "the new tubeless TV set". Which is exactly like a modern-day LCD screen.
Boy they really picked the right rings to play.
Lmfao 🤣 for real!!
perhaps he grab the once that look the lesser used.
as she say it. they speak about things nobody understand.
perhaps one outer ring contain a song one artist want preserved this way. and this ring was played way way more offent as all outhers and look over fingerprints and lesser dust way more used...
I'm sure 800,000 years had plenty to tell
Rod Taylor tried to play down this movie but it really is quite good. Better than the remake. Definitely a sci-fi classic.
Yes so much better than the awful remake.
I saw it when on the television in the 1960s. This is still one of my favourite films.
love this movie :) so much better then the remake
It was the old man calling “the mushrooms are coming” that scared me witless as a kid. I saw it on TV in the very early Seventies when I as about 12. Old enough to know that Armageddon was in the air and we lived next to a major military “target” in UK so we would have been frazzled in an instant.
Incredible film that has always stood the test of time. And the bonus is, humanity hasn’t destroyed itself - yet……
Love this movie from the first time I saw it in the 60’s. The voice of the talking rings sounds like Paul Frees of Disney voice over fame, and Rankin-Bass programs.
One of the wonderous moments, of this splendid film... Thanx for this...! ! !
I have placed the original complete soundtrack of this film on my page..you may enjoy.
I had the great honor of holding the Oscar that my boss at the time, Tim Baar, received for the Special Effects on this movie. Along with Gene Warren I believe.
The single coolest thing in this underrated movie.
A wonderful and unforgettable movie. Rod Taylor with the beautiful and sweet Yvette Mimieux made a perfect couple. So way much better than the marvel trash we have today.
Jan. 31, 2019----Man of man....Yvette Mimeaux was so god damned hot in this and her other movies. Especially liked Jackson County Jail movie. And have this movie as VHS and dvd, along with the remake they did as a dvd. Both great classics. Thanks for the video clip.
I also remember her in the Black Hole.
According to TV Tropes this would be an example of an "Apocalyptic Log."
I like this scene of the talking rings better than the library one in the newer film.
Yeah, but no. That was the ONE thing about the 2002 movie that was better than the original. The holo-Liberian was able to interact to fill in some of the gaps. The rings are just a monologue, but it never occurred to the scriptwriter to have some sort of interaction in the original.
@@patrickradcliffe3837 The holo-liberian was the best part of the new movie, but I'll agree to disagree that its better than the talking rings.
A "timeless movie".........and it still remains the best adaptation of the classic HG Wells novel. It's a wonder there haven't been more attempts, as there hasn't been a movie yet which has really brought the full potential of the novel alive - but George Pal's 1960 attempt was certainly a great try.
RIP Mr. Taylor
Beautiful, eerie bit of film-making with simple practical effects.
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.
The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording.
Prior to the development of sound recording, there were mechanical systems for encoding and reproducing instrumental music, such as wind-up music boxes and, later, player pianos.
Acoustic analog recording is achieved by a microphone diaphragm that can detect and sense the changes in atmospheric pressure caused by acoustic sound waves and record them as a mechanical representation of the sound waves on a medium such as a phonograph record (in which a stylus cuts grooves on a record).
In magnetic tape recording, the sound waves vibrate the microphone diaphragm and are converted into a varying electric current, which is then converted to a varying magnetic field by an electromagnet, which makes a representation of the sound as magnetized areas on a plastic tape with a magnetic coating on it.
Analog sound reproduction is the reverse process, with a bigger loudspeaker diaphragm causing changes to atmospheric pressure to form acoustic sound waves.
Oscillations may also be recorded directly from devices such as an electric guitar pickup or a synthesizer, without the use of acoustics in the recording process, other than the need for musicians to hear how well they are playing during recording sessions via headphones.
Digital recording and reproduction converts the analog sound signal picked up by the microphone to a digital form by the process of digitization.
This lets the audio data be stored and transmitted by a wider variety of media.
Digital recording stores audio as a series of binary numbers (zeros and ones) representing samples of the amplitude of the audio signal at equal time intervals, at a sample rate high enough to convey all sounds capable of being heard.
Digital recordings are considered higher quality than analog recordings not necessarily because they have higher fidelity (wider frequency response or dynamic range), but because the digital format can prevent much loss of quality found in analog recording due to noise and electromagnetic interference in playback and mechanical deterioration or damage to the storage medium.
Whereas successive copies of an analog recording tend to degrade in quality, as more noise is added, a digital audio recording can be reproduced endlessly with no degradation in sound quality.
A digital audio signal must be reconverted to analog form during playback before it is amplified and connected to a loudspeaker to produce sound.
Thank you for that explanation.
The movie came out in 1959, yet by 1957, "Max Mathews of Bell Labs recorded the first computer-generated music, a 17-second piece called "The Silver Scale" composed by his co-worker Newman Guttman" (From Wikipedia). Optical video recording technology, using a transparent disc, (laser disc) was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1963 (and patented in 1970 and 1990). Compact discs are "an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a focused laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new digital audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980." (Wikipedia)
I wonder if the "rings" were another sci-fi "invention" that later "birthed" compact discs, much like cell phones today were sci-fi "inventions" first seen in Star Trek. I remember reading somewhere that engineers thought Star Trek's communicators were so cool that they wanted to build a real one... and they did. 😺
"My name is of no consequence"- The Ghost Host
Yeah but in all seriousness that's the voice of Paul Frees, the narrator for three attractions at Disneyland, The Haunted Mansion, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, and the extinct ride Adventures Thru Inner Space; and he provides many voices for Pirates of The Caribbean. When I first heard his voice I automatically said to myself that this was perfect casting, who else could provide the voice for the last remaining remnants of human society in the future, just so fitting and chilling. Its also interesting because Paul Frees appears again in the 1960s version of the war of the worlds for a scene, another HG Wells novel of course. Disney must have viewed these movies and decided he was their pick, makes sense since this movie predates all those attractions. I wish he had recorded audiobooks because his voice was just incredible.
It's worth it just to hear those master voices of the past: Sir Laurence Olivier, and Paul Frees, in quick succession. This is exactly whom I would choose us to be represented to the Future World.
They both sound like Paul Frees to me.
>>Sir Laurence Olivier
RIP 🙏 Yvette. (1942-2022)
"My name is Paul Frees and I approve of these rings. "
My name is John Satterfield and I approve of Paul Frees
: ).
The Man, The Myth, The Legend.🎙
I WOULD GATHER EVERY RING THERE AND LISTEN TO THEM ALL
Brilliant film.
''The war between the East and West which is in its 326th year, has at last come to an end''.
''The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs, that it can no longer be breathed.''
I can never get out of my mind of what and how a war could last for 3 centuries! I look back at the beginning of WWIII in 1966 and I cannot see how it could have continued THAT long! I mean the Atomic Satellites virtually did over 95% of the death and destruction in the first attacks. And with the geological structure ruptured because of the blasts and molten rock rising to the surface to finish the job certainly was the 5%.
World War III: 1966 - 2289.
I'm pretty sure that nuclear weapons weren't the only things to make the war last that long. The governments at the time would've also used conventional warfare as well for territorial expansionism too.
Well Tyler you did see the power of the atomic satellites. I mean they were strong enough to cause a geological surge, but then again that was probably in a specific place. However seeing as they were satellites that the possibility of the atmosphere being evaporated was more than likely. Still god knows what tech was available at the time of the start of WWIII, however the possiblity of chemical weapons being used as well are very great.
Falkor The Luck Dragon™ Thanks 4 the reply! Can't wait to see what "theory" YOU might have to offer to this FASCINATING discussion on how the "strange new world" of 802,701 AD REALLY came into being! Okay...take care! ;-)
Gaylord Cohen I'd like to read what you have writen. But the story in the link is no longer available
+animal16365 I'm so sorry, but I decided to delete that story, because I thought that, historically, it "didn't seem to make sense". For example, Spain, in 1966, was one of the countries the Soviets attacked in my story. But, in reality, Spain did NOT join NATO until 1982! In fact, the ONLY REAL nuclear "incident" that country was involved in, was when a US/NATO B-52 bomber plane carrying thermonuclear bombs crashed near the town of Palomeres, in (I think) January of that year (1966), and the country was, like I said, NOT part of NATO for another 16 years after that incident. It was that fact, among other things, that virtually "blew my story out of the water"! That just goes to show us that fantasy and reality are like oil and water...two different things that JUST DON'T mix! Maybe I should NOT be a fiction writer, after all, because of my (obvious and apparent) INABILITY to "suspend disbelief for the sake of enjoyment"! ;-) Again, sorry, and "better luck next time" (IF I should ever decide to try writing fiction again!). CHEERS! :-)
Great Film!! Wish we could have a return of these cinematic films
I miss Rod already RIP George-
Tom O'Connor yeah but it was happy surprise seeing him hunched over as Churchill in Inglorious Bastards for his final role. First close up they gave him just clicked when he said, “brief him”. I was like, “No way, Rod Taylor!”
I really wish they did more with this scene, I would like to have heard what some of the other rings had to say. There's a major information gap between humanity being a war weary but otherwise independent to a blissfully ignorant slave race. I also wonder if the Morlocks really were the people who took refuge beneath the surface. They weren't really that deep below and if they had technology on par with the talking rings, I'd imagine they'd be at least living in vaults like in fallout. For all we know, there's a technologically advanced human race living a mile or so underground and no one would no it. Overall, it would have been interesting if H.G. Wells had expanded this story, shown how else the world could have changed. Only what was once London was shown here, the rest of the planet could have been entirely different.
+aHaryBilYrdBall Welles's novel is a socialist dystopia that posits a class struggle that has effectively been extended by hundreds of thousands of years. The Morlocks are the brutalized remnants of the producer class (industrial workers), the Eloi the clueless, disorganized, and effete remnants of the aristocratic one. Both have devolved such that the original class conflict has been forgotten, but has long since been locked in place until the actions of the Time Traveler disrupt it -- at least locally.
Yeah so true I wish like I read in the other comments that they would include a deleted scene from the other talking rings to here what was recorded on the other rings to learn what was left out of our missing past for those people
My take on this is that several civilisations came and went during our time traveler's journey from the 1960s to the year 802701. Those talking rings could have been a product from that last civilisation he saw when the rock wore away around him....or an earlier era.
judging by the pipes and ladder remains I think the morlocks at one point WERE living in some state of the art underground complex, but much like Rome to US something happened in their subterranean fortress that resulted in it's collapse, my guess is they eventually mutated into what we saw from generations of breeding in a highly radioactive environment, perhaps the bunker wasn't completely airtight, maybe it was nuclear powered and it melted down at some point, maybe the giant underground world simply outbred it's capacity to sustain itself in a post nuclear enviornment.
@@roberthaworth9097
that's your interpretation, you're welcome to it
My favorite iteration of this story.
Far better than the remake in 2002. Thank you for this great upload. Take care and Happy New Year
It is a powerfull moive, a powerful scean.
Even now this is still a Top 10 Sci Fi Movie of all time.
The voice over by Paul Frees makes this scene classic.
Absolutely!!! No one could play the "Voice of Authority" as well as Paul Frees!
Yvette Mimieux is incredibly lovely like an angel.
epic scene from epic movie!
One of the best versions
You will never see any more Great Movies.
I like how the voice didn't mention any country involved in the war, just "east" and "west", the Cold War left so much inspiration to filmmakers.
Since Paul Frees was narrating, there is a chance that the war was between Pottsylvania and the good 'ol U.S. of A.
Lol
I'm only 33 but I loved this movie when I was a kid. The sphinx and the landscapes are so creepy.
I read the book a number of times as a child too.
The movie's spin on it, the air raid sirens that call the Eloi underground, how they knew the stories the talking rings told, that the end of the sirens meant All Clear - so cool
I'm 32 and even though I never read the book, this movie fascinated me more than Back to the Future
The book is very different in that the time traveller goes to the future with seemingly no specific era he wants to go to. He actually ends up in the year 802701 by accident, then discovers the fate of humanity there. He also travels further in time some 30,000,000 years in the future where he ends up on a dying Earth and a large, dimming red Sun. I still liked this movie though as it ends on an optimistic note.
when I saw this as a kid, the Morlocks scared the hell out of me, its a fantastic movie
I hated those disgusting Morlocks. They didn't scare me as much as the sirens, but they were revolting on a deeper level.
The Rings Were a Great Idea Very Advanced
The idea of talking rings was never surpassed.
That’s Paul Frees, and that legendary voice!
I did look over David Duncan's script & it appears to be an original rough draft. That script did mention a later war in 4053 A.D. in the Talking Ring scene but seems to be omitted in the final film. Duncan's script also mentions in the 1966 pre-attack scene an ambulance passing George, and the bomb blast rerouting the Thames River - I don't recall seeing those things in the film. (There was a TOHO movie from 1962 called "The Last War" that has a volcano form in H-Bomb devastated Tokyo.) The Soviets were found to have stashed away World War II fighter planes and military gear in caves, so it is plausible that the 1966 war continued with conventional weapons to some degree after the nuclear exchange. There may have been biological weapons that weren't destroyed in the nuclear exchange that were used later and "Filled the air with deadly germs". The British descendants of the 1966 war survivors probably noted that the Soviets were no longer attacking them 326 years later and declared that the war is over. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and other communist nations were referred to as "The East" and the non-communist nations were referred to as "The West". I wonder if the monorail train in the 1966 scene was one that was sold in the Disneyland toy store? There could have been later wars, between "Tribes" of the British descendants that would account for the fallen tower and other destroyed buildings.
"My name is of no consequence"
- Slartibartfast
The talking rings are voiced by actor Paul Frees, he did many movie and cartoon voices, Rocky and Bullwinkle's Boris Badenov, Disney's Ludwig Von Drake, they dubbed his voice for Humphrey Bogart's last movie due to Bogie's throat cancer.
Also the Haunted Mansion: th-cam.com/video/TDyhXPWc14c/w-d-xo.html
He was also a radio announcer in several science fiction movies.
To me, it seems inconceivable that any war like this would last 326 years. If those orbital satelites in 1966 had the strength to cause the catastrophic damage seen to London, then how would other countries of the world continue to maintain a population large enough to continue the fighting at a later time?
But CDs replaced the talking rings.
Of all the versions (movies)of this classic, I like this 1 the best
Brilliant film, this could be how mankind starts again, for our current society is falling apart ….
I've seen the original movie a few times, but I do not recall this scene.
Those few chilling words from the rings contain more story than most enire movies. George Pal wanted to make a sequel, but alas...I can recommend the Time Ships though if anyone is interested in reading a non HG Wells sequel.
It’s haunting the way the voices of the rings….just….trail offfffff.
The ring voices sound like Paul Frees. A friend told me about him and now I notice how often he was used in movies and TV. He was to voices what the Wrecking Crew was to 1960s Top 40 hits.
"My name is of no consequence...but we have 999 ghosts to haunt you."
Oh, right: Because the anonymous voices were actually by the famed voice actor Paul Frees, who also did the "Haunted House" ride in Disneyland!
@@alexmuenster2102 When the crypt doors creak and the tombstones quake....
"From the talking rings, I discovered how the world the morlocks and the eloi begun. Buy some awful quirk of fate, the morlocks had become the Masters and the Eloi their servants. The Eloi had been bred and maintained like...like cattle until they had reached maturity. Which explained why there were no older people among them."-- H.G. Wells
You didn't read the book didja? Cause that's not in the book. There are no talking rings. The time traveler only speculates what happened.
Weena is pretty much an adult and evolution from not having to work hard as a necessity, or survive or be strong caused them to grow smaller.
@@squirleyspitmonkey3926 actually I did. I even own it. I was just quoting what was out
There was actually a modern Americanized version of this story based along racial lines written in the 1970s. The whites were the Eloi, and the blacks were the Morlocks. However, the blacks were not living underground (they lived separately above ground), they were not barbarically wordless (in fact, they were intellectually gifted), and they comprised the majority of the population. The whites had been enslaved (a historical turning of the tables), and only the members of the black elite fed upon the whites as a means of acquiring greater knowledge and strength. Only in the 70s!
No children either so makes you wonder where the nurseries are because child-rearing to maturity takes effort the Eloi do not appear to have.
@@nassauguy48the 1964 novel Farnham's Freehold by Robert Heinlein is what you seem to be misremembering