Future Tense - The Story of H.G. Wells BBC Documentary 2016
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- Martians, Morlocks and Mermaids. To mark Wells's 150th birthday Dominic Sandbrook discovers how a sleepy corner of the country inspired some of the most fantastic ideas in science fiction.
Wells had such a vivid writing ability and his imagination was amazing. I really loved "The Invisible Man" and "The Time Machine"
I picked up a copy of War Of The World's one wet Sunday
afternoon . I thought I'd read a chapter to pass the time .
Several hours later I was still reading . ! Couldn't put it
down...!
One of my favourite authors EVER :)
One of the greatest writers in British history and gifted with such an imagination and insight.
Here is a character who deserves a major film biography. His visions of the future were uncannily accurate, especially THINGS TO COME. After watching that recently, you would think that it had been made after W.W. II, and not before!
Have you pondered which actors (younger and older) you would like to see portray HG Wells?
There must be someone from Masterpiece Theater or the Harry Potter cast who could do the job well.
@@Raelspark As the younger version, I'd go with Tom Holland. As the older version, I'd go with Peter Capaldi (without the cursing!).
The short stories. Read them. They are breath taking.
Plattner Story, Into The Abyss, The Cristal Egg...are eerie and awesome!
Wells also compiled world history in two well received, and erudite volumes called The Outline of History, of which there is no mention here
H.g.wells is one of my favourite authors
Anyone comment this
His best quote: History is a race between education and catastrophe.
The later becoming all to prevalent unfortunately...
Hi
Yes. H G Well is one of the greatest writers of the English language. He saw the change into the 20th Century. Just as now, change into the Twenty First Century. Now, watch the industrial world find Christianity to fight the very "Science Fiction" world that W G Well's help create...First, an "old fashion" Christian Revival. Then secondly, "My eyes have seen the Glory of the coming of the Lord." -Yes ! ✝️ Christian Revival and then Judgment Day !
It seems to me watching this that Wells was a man forever dissatisfied with his lot in life, forever seeking the greener pasture and growing discontented with his achievements the moments they r conquered. A hell in itself to never be content, one i know all too well...
True ... he was a man who was not to happy with his time on this planet...
I'm guessing by our measurement...
@@clifffowler2581 and by his own it would seem....
Great documentary!
H.G. Wells, one of England, one of Britain's best writers so relevant today in our sci-fi world. The Time Machine tale morphed into a good film with Rod Taylor as the time traveller. So poignant to see the times and fashions change in the ladies dresswear shop in front of his machine. And his good pal who asked him, 'Where would you go if you had all the time in the world?' Well, where would you go, dear reader?
Big fan. Huge !
classic, a la par to Verne, the biggest author ever....fantastic on so many levels!
Unlike the modern BBC, H.G. Wells knew well enough how to not let the message ruin the story, and to allow for interpretation, subtlety and shades of grey. As an example the plight of the native Tasmanians is far more complex than a simple colonial extinction event (and indeed, they are not in fact extinct and it is pretty fucking offensive to state that they are so fuck you BBC!)
Tasmanian native women often were traded by Tasmanian native men to the European sealers - they made that choice to sell their own women into slavery. Sure, some were abducted, but more often than not they were sold. Also many of the women put into slavery and later offered to be relocated back to their tribes refused, preferring to stay with their white husbands and children - sure this was probably often a case of stockholm syndrome, but also most likely they often had better lives where they were, choosing the lesser evil.
Unfortunately the modern narrative is "colonialism was all bad, and it's a black and white issue (no pun intended) m'kay?". Nobody seems to think those women probably had pretty fucking awful lives if their men treated them as commodities to trade, and maybe sometimes they did end up in a better place.
Disease was another issue entirely, nobody understood disease when Tasmania was being explored and exploited by Europeans in the early 19th century. Do we blame people for fucking and partying with no understanding of the consequences? According to the woke BBC - yes, yes we do.
After that it descended into tit-for-tat warfare for resources, which is humanity at its worse, and being by that stage the colonists well outnumbered and outgunned the native population - there was only one endgame - those who managed to assimilate survived, those who could not perished.
H.G. Wells understood all this, as is clear from his writing - he knew progress had it's good and its evil, it's winners, it's losers, it's moral trade offs, and most of all, it's utter, unassailable inevitability. What he truly understood though was what humanity must do to survive is to embrace humanism on a personal level - and that's what so many people don't understand today.
Humanity seems to be losing all ability to appreciate the nuance and shades of grey in history, and prefers to cast everything into an evil and good mold. We are fucked if we continue down this path.
Colonialism was in many cases a horrific and destructive force, but it's also forged for us the longest period of peace and safety for the large majority of humanity in history. The good with the bad. For fucks sake, be like Wells and appreciate the subtleties!
He got bloated and puffy physically, so his writing got bloated and puffy too? WTF? Who the fuck is this fool?
And no mention of Men Like Gods, one of his great novels. Fuck. Me. Of course the BBC wouldn't mention that because it does indeed show that even late in H.G. Well's life, he understood that the only true progress humanity makes is aided by rationality and science.
We are only Human - yes indeed. Wells was above all a Humanist - he knew well what humanity was capable of at its best, and the pathos of humanity failing to live up to humanism, both on an individual and a cultural level.
Oh the black and white hypocritical self assured and fundamentally idiotic wokeness of the modern BBC, on display in full right here! Wells would be disappointed we'll never achieve the heights he saw for us - Aldous Huxley and George Orwell would perhaps mildly surprised that the future turned out to be a bizzaro blend of their two dystopias.
He didn't foresee the Rise of
Victim Culture : as propounded
by BBC / Guardian clique .
Now reaching epidemic proportions . At least the Romans
attempted to fight off the Barbarians : we meekly surrender .
Hope nobody minds if I put in a plug for my lecture on HG Wells on TH-cam. Look up H.G. Wells and Existential Crisis.
Much of ancient mythology resembles science fiction so ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and so on could be considered science fiction writers. Hephaestus made intelligent machines resembling women, made weapons and armor long before Lex Luthor and Tony Stark did similar. He also use geothermal power was called god of fire and logic. Eros had arrows that affected peoples emotions to love and hate. Cyclops made thunderbolts used by Zeus. Ancient Egyptian gods supposed traveled through space for millions of years. Had devices to fly, bring dead back to life, and so on.
Excellent point !
@W.L.Met:
Re Your synopsis:
When a word ends w\
[with] s,you needn't add an extra 1:just an apostrophe wd do.
Intriguing commentary.
24:39-24:54
27:53-28:27
Luvd the DrWho -esque
SFX:KUDOS to all the
Narrators, the Videographer \s & Producer\s on a GR8
Production!
B'dos,W.Indies.
Unquestionably, H. G. Wells invented British science fiction. However, (it sounds nicer than "BUT"), was not Jules Verne earlier than H. G.? Actually, there were many who could claim "The First" in science fiction, it was only later that the term science was used, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" could be taken, at face value, as science fiction, although it was written as a commentary of the society of his day. More's "Utopia" also comes to mind. There are many others. But, H. G. Wells may have been the first to coin the term "Science Fiction", although, I believe, he used the words, "Scientific Romance". I could be, and probably am, wrong, but he simply wasn't the first to carry reader's imaginations to unheard of worlds or ideas.
The earlier writers of imaginative tales generally didn't use science to any degree. They were more like "fantasies" or fables. All kinds of strange things happen in fairy tales and heroic legends, but science, not so much. Verne probably could be considered the first sf writer, but Wells' tales explored much deeper into all kinds of scientific possibilities--time travel, genetic experimentation, invisibility, consciousness dislocation etc. Part of that was due to fact Wells was coming of age when a lot of progress had been made in the sciences and he poked around with so many different themes, whereas Verne, as good as he was, was from an earlier era when the excitement he generated was about new kinds of machines that allowed men to travel to new places (as well as revealing all kinds of information about those new places, based on a lot of research and meticulous thinking).
Jules Verne is The spiritual father of modern Science Fiction literature in its adventurous, pioneering way! ( 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Journey to The Center of The Earth, From The Earth to The Moon, Off on a Comet) But remember;; back in the 1860s-70s , people simply knew "Scientific Romance" , the genre would be developed further at the dawn of The XX Century with H.G. Wells , in Brittain, and Verne 's fellow countryman J.H. Rosny ...
I've just bougth the invisible man, didn't know about him but i think im gona read his entire ,work yeees !!!!
Well I very much hope you enjoyed the read!
If it has caused you to consider a further leap, and you think you know The War of the Worlds, be prepared to discover why the original still inspires (and eclipses all and any) adaptation to this day.
But for sheer prescience, try The First Men in the Moon. Brilliant. If I do say so myself
Why did they use an actor with such a deep voice for Wells? There are actual audio recordings of him. He had one of the most shockingly high pitched voices you'll ever hear.
No mention of The Sleeper? It's interesting to hear other people's take on your favourite authors. No mention of Jule's Verne and his issues with Wells.
I also thought so. The sleeper is my favorite
@@MonserratFoster Hello Monse and greetings from the past. The sleeper is his greatest work, I think. It is the one that history has shown the actual truth of. Jules Verne was not even in the game as far as real science fiction and Dune would have baffled him, if he'd lived long enough. Politics is the real point of science fiction.
amazing
One of the speakers states that before The Time Machine no one had ever written a time travel story. Hmmmm .... hold on ...
how about Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol ??? ... many scenes with Ebenezer Scrooge witnessing the past, His past, and
then visiting near future and a few years into the future. Lots of time travel there.
I'm sure that time machine was in the big bang theory
No mention of his role in the fabian society and their push for communism. Or his book "The Open Conspiracy"
H.g.walls is my new friend.
Never heard of him...
Murali Sreenivasa He made great ice-cream Mr Walls.
WE THE USA LOVES THE GREAT MR WELLS
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H.G. Wells and Nick Cave together.
Wells' tales were great, especially Country of the Blind, but Verne was indeed the "father of science fiction". BTW, how dare the BBC desecrate a British documentary with Hollywood images!
Because the TARDIS won't work in this documentary.
Is this to say that a California-based documentary about Wells shouldn't even be considered, since he is British, and countries should only use images from their own location? Anyway, that aside, I think we can thank Hollywood for helping to keep Wells alive and stirring ongoing, further interest in his writings. Many people who've seen the popular versions of his stories have looked into his writings and history on their own, people who might otherwise have never even heard of him. (I was/am one of those, having seen the Pal version of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS at 5 years of age, and began looking for his many many actual writings not too long afterwards---yes, I was a book-a-phile from a very young age.)
THe glimpse of the other world that HGWells saw was mans doom in the future--- His colleagues were foolng around with technology way too much and Wells told then that that kind of knowledge is used for the good of mankind.. and what they were doing was not good.. While traveling on a plane -- he had fallen asleep -- he had a PROPHETIC DREAM that while playing around with the tech and like playing god with earths elements ..MAN BLEW THE SKY UP--- AND CAUSE GREAT DISASTER FOR THE PEOPLE ON EARTH.. He woke up so upset and felt that it was so real.. that he yelled out saying '' YOU BASTARDS == YOU BLEW UP THE SKY--- and guess what.. just look at today how they ARE .. ????? doing things in the sky---- damn you s---
no mention of Kipps or Mr Polly ?
HGW has to be admired for his work but this documentary fails miserably to give the whole picture of a man caught within a time. To begin to decipher his thoughts that guided his pen you first have to know he was a member of the Fabian Society and you have to realise its true purpose. This society was most probably a branch of the Enlightenment movement that coursed the circle of Elites. At face value it was said to represent a humanistic and futuristic Utopian future... like the one in " Things to come"... where a New World without wars, starvation and benefited all equally . HGW spoke of this new world in many news reels... he was the poster-boy of the ideas without mention of the movement, you felt he meant his words and fully believed it could be done. Unfortunately if you watch more of his interviews you will find he becomes disappointed , maybe being mislead by the movement. They were in fact orchestrated by the NWO who have a totally different agenda. I am only skimming the surface and there are several avenues to investigate... Religion, Huxley,Technology, emerging Symbology of the times and the words New, World , and Order.
This I believe was only meant as a primer for those who know/knew very very little about Wells. What you are talking about, with validity, requires a multi-part series of one-hour shows. Maybe someone someday.....
TIME' waits for no one...
❤
The Tasmanians were exterminated by the European evolutionists who considered them a subspecies as per the hypothesis of evolution.
exactly... the worship of science helped them justify their criminal behavior over centuries … and gave them advantage for future crimes
Did they just play led zep?
Not bad for such a limited overview. The choice of music seems a very half-hearted attempt to appeal to, what?---younger viewers?
O'Reilly Keys
Why the jazzy music!
Imagine his shock if he had looked into the future and saw who the Americans elected to lead them. A Morlock if I ever saw one... He would have thought the future frightning and terrible the one we are now living in.
Remember, the Morlocks were the working class and the Eloi were the pampered elite. If you're referring to Trump, he's more of an Eloi.
Father of Science-Fiction? What abouth Jules Verne...?
+Jamie Pritchard
Wells is regarded as the "father" of the genre, especially among English speaking people. He deffinitely "invented" concepts like time travel, and alien invasions, but that is just a small part. In fact, we must remember that back in the 1800's, and early XX Century, people just reffered those stories as "Scientific Romance". Mary Shelley came with FRANKENSTEIN, her "Modern Prometheus" (surely inspired on the fantastic 17 Century legend of the Jewish Golem), a story that deffinitely predated the transplant of organs and robotics, then Edgar Allan Poe, very famous for his gothic horror and detective short stories, deppicted more-less "scientifically" themed stories about balloon voyages to the Moon, and dirigibles. Verne is an interesting case; Regarded unfairly in the English speaking world as just a "boys`own adventure" writer, he deserves the credit of shaping early modern sci-fi in his "Voyages Extraordinaires", conceptually, because in his books there is both anticipation as well speculation, even more so, he was the first futurist writer describing with amazing accuracy modern technologies especially air, sea, and Space travel, not mention television and modern weapons of massive destruction. Even though he wrote 80 titles (and not all of them are "science-fictional" stories, but merely straight travel-adventure dramas) 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, are the core of his fiction,well known modern in popular culture, even for those who had never read any single page of them, and interesting for being character-driven odysseys (Captain Nemo, Professor Lidenbrock, Michel Ardan, Phileas Fogg). If look it up this way, he did pave the way for such authors like Wells, Conan Doyle, and Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jamie Pritchard
Sorry if I wrote a paragraph, i tried to sustain my "thesis"
It's an excellent paragraph. :)
Jules Verne Is the King of science fiction.
Wells was a journalist. He wrote short stories from research of modern science and theology. He was a lousy journalist but a better science fiction writer. At that time, science was all the buzz and people gobbled it up.
Drops a pink Floyd
Which they may've gotten from Wells' story The Door in the Wall. Maybe.
এইচ.জি. ওয়েলসের চিরায়ত ইতিহাস গ্রন্থ a short history of the world বা বিশ্বের সংক্ষিপ্ত ইতিহাস বইয়ের রিভিউ- th-cam.com/video/s7stVbJ-iXw/w-d-xo.html
*People from a time of a different breed of Human. They dont make em like this anymore. The only thing that comes out of a* *womb now is nothing but puke!*
Im not on board with that old boy...
Jeff Smith I am, people only talk phoney rubbish now, usually with money as the motivation. I'm sick of it. Some genuineness would be refreshing, but it seems to be forgotten.
Lucia Tilyard Yes, a resurgence of genuineness would be welcome, but there are still plenty of wonderful people out in the world. Try not living with such a dark and negative attitude, and you will find them.
Steel --- there are still great souls being born-- but evil of man has done and is doing a brain hack on most of them.. God will send an army of Warriors to fight this maddness and reveal truths.
This is thin stuff at 29 mins, I do not like H G Wells,,but a writer of his influence/popularity deserves better treatment, The narrator is far too intrusive,This has become the norm in BBC films, Compare this with the documentary on G,B, Shaw made by RTE in 2017 with Gabriel Byrne as presenter, It is 53 mins long,I dont like Shaw either but that film forced me to re evaluate Shaw, Are Aljjazeera and RTE to replace the BBC as the worlds top EngLang broadcasters
Michael Boylan I absolutely agree! It must've taken all of ten minutes to research this and write the script.
15:00 those are not martians' tripodes , those are the anti-brexit coalition's forces of justice ! wahahahahaahhahaa
Unlike the BBC, H.G. Wells knew well enough how to not let the message ruin the story.
Wells was a diabetic. He wrote many other novels other thanks science fiction. He worked as a window dresser in his early years, probably in his Dad's shop. He was a member of the Fabian Society, which lost its reputation as a result of Tony Ffing Blair. Wells wouldn't have been impressed by shit-faced Blair! It's a shame about the League of Nations (now the U.N.) too. The idea of the L of N, was to stop war, yet now they recommend depopulation (like the Nazis) - would a rose by any other name...? (eugenics) and other nasty things. And I heard that T.May was thinking about doing away with human rights in U.K. I really don't think this is very thoughtful! BBC really has gone to crap, hasn't it? It used to be so good, sad.
unfortunately Wells was misinformed about Tasmanian aboriginals (Australia).
They were not exterminated...
The two remaining criminal tribes were moved to a near by island of the coast by mutual agreement...
70s porn music, bold choice
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LOL @
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Yep, zap the twat for filming in portrait mode and having a beard!
Sure you guys can't find anything else out about his sexuality?! Useless documentary.
Derick Chafton When out of time, add a bit of scandal, the author went to the Dogger Bank University and studied under Rupert Murdoch!
What's wrong with being horny?
Interesting, but certainly not worth the time spent to listen to it. No real subject, just a bunch of actors using up time saying little, and doing it with drama. Typical British baloney.