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- 🔴 Title: THINGS TO COME (H.G. WELLS)
🔴 Summary: The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel. #sci-fi #sciencefiction
YOP 1936
Cast: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson
Director William Cameron Menzies
Writer H.G. Wells(novel "The Shape of Things to Come")
🔴 Certificate: TV-MA
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One of the best science fiction movies ever made with very powerful lessons for all
"Wings over the world" -- Memorable dialog. This film is somewhat grim, but also quite prophetic and hopeful. I would like to dedicate this film in very loving memory of my grandparents -- both English -- both survivors of "The Blitz." Many thanks for posting this remarkable film!
Bombed by Your own Government who wanted Israel to get it's own country ...You forgot to mention that fact !
and the dictator called wings over his wits!
“Both grandparents”
You should have 4 grandparents, unless they were brother and sister who had an incestuous relationship?
@@flashgordon6670 Most of us can understand that he is referring to his English side of the family, Remember no one likes a smart arse!
@@superduper9357 Yes I know that I was just joking you dimlo.
H G Wells and George Orwell were accurate in predicting the future....
not sure what to think, when a movie almost 100 yrs old is better then most new ones.
I'd suspect that's often been the case.
i've read the book and are just starting to watch the film. the book was amazing, hg wells was an absolute genius.
How did you find it
@@hikeaholick It's still in print.
One of my all time favorite science fiction movies! And wow what a beautiful HD version!!
All very flash gordon with clipped bbc radio accents, marvelous dear boy 😊
24B...launch pad at Cape Kennedy...the astronauts went under the pad...waited there for one week ..then were dropped from a C5...picked up by the aircraft carrier...moon landing...no way!
This movie was made when people still believed in the possibility of a human-built utopia. If the 20th century taught us anything it is that any utopia created by flawed human beings will inevitably require a long swim across an ocean of blood, and all attempted utopias descend into authoritarian rule.
Bingo. Utopias require mass death and authoritarianism.
The first sensible thing I've read here in the comments.
Most people in 1936 didn't believe in a utopia. Lots of people now still do.
Agreed. Do you think they descend into authoritarian rule? More like start with it. It’s just hidden.
We read the same books at school. Lol.
Good movie. 👍❤️. H. G. Wells was one of my favorite writers and authors. Many of the possibilities he imagined in his books, some have come true, such as the way humanity’s history repeats itself, as it does in this movie……hatred, jealousy, envy, greed, racism, egotistical values, etc., blinds humanity’s potential with ignorance into the possibilities of living in a better future and world. Until these barriers are overcome and left behind, humanity will be faced with and doomed into repeating the same mistakes and failures our ancestors made and that have haunted humanity throughout its entire history, over and over again. Isn’t it time to put the bickering and confusion behind? 😢🙏🏼
"We need to put an end to war before it puts an end to us". Those words always stuck with me and will always ring true.
Well if it puts an end to us, the end of war will come thereafter.
It is true, today, with nato country fast losing the hold they had on the Third World, and also for the destruction capabilities we have today, it is more true than ever.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." 🤔
-- Albert Einstein
@@jayluce1650 that is if there's anyone left to fight it.
Wars been going on since Cain killed Abel, it won't end as long as there's two people, war will rage on. The price of sin is death, the price of war is greed.
I've seen this extraordinary film countless times over the course of my 80 years, but I had to take the time to watch this particular TH-cam video, because this is by far the cleanest, sharpest print of this film I've ever seen. Every frame of this film is a feast for the eyes. I have the colorized version of this film on a Blu-ray disk and it appears to have been made from a print with more scratches and imperfections than this print. I recently, bought a high quality projector, and seeing this beautiful print of the film on a screen as large as the image would have appeared in a theater was an amazing experience. I felt like I had time traveled back to 1936 and was watching the film when it premiered in a London theater. There are only a few minor imperfections in the image here and there...... very few considering the age of the film. With very little restoration, using modern digital techniques, the picture quality would be as perfect as it was when the film was first shown, maybe even better.
Pray Tell ...how does one improve on Perfect...remember it's a goal Not a destination ! :)-
Sir, I salute you. 63 here and have been a fan of H.G. Wells for most of my life.
Rite-on my fellow being! 👁🫵🏼😇🙏❤️
You are mighty sharp
To be 80 , not one
type error, but who
knows the future
least he get it from
above, the Holy Bible.
@@chipsramek3868 This
guy says he saw it in
1936, if he was born
in '36 he'd be 86 or 87
If he was 14 when he saw it he'd be 100, his comment was unusually in good form for his age 80, but again if he was 14
in '36 he's 100, so it's
Computer gen. or
he's mistaken?
Damn, the movie left out my favorite quote from the book!
" We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime, struggling from shape to shape and from power to power, crawling and then walking confidently upon the land, struggling generation after generation to master the air, creeping down into the darkness of the deep; we see it turn upon itself in rage and hunger and reshape itself anew, we watch it draw nearer and more akin to us, expanding, elaborating itself, pursuing its relentless inconceivable purpose, until at last it reaches us and its being beats through our brains and arteries... It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening; out of our lineage minds will spring that will reach back to us in our littleness to know us better than we know ourselves. A day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins shall stand upon this Earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars."
H. G. Wells, Things to Come
🖖
WOW. That IS one hell of a speech. That's truly remarkable, and I thank you for contributing it.
I read a few of his most popular novels when I was a kid, but had never heard of this one. And I had forgotten what a deep thinker and writer he was; it's too easy to recall only the more superficial aspects of his legacy, because they ARE really good stories, even just on the surface. I'm thinking maybe it's time to revisit him.
Imagine this soliloquy being given by Ramond Massey and concluding with the immoral... "all of the universe or nothing which shall it be?..
WHICH SHALL IT BE?
Ironic that in our world we made it to the moon only 3 and a bit decades after the movie was made, while in the movie it was a century....
Too bad weren't at Star Trek level, yet....
The first scenes of the movie was eerily prophetic as England was at war in 1939.
Wells was an insider, he knew what the controllers planned for humanity 😮
I find the talk of a new world worder, freemasonry of science, the end of sovereign nation states quite interesting, yet so far have seen no other comment made on it. HG Wells would release a book titled The New World Order in 1940.
The 'which shall it be?' speech is one of the greatest endings to any film ever made, and resonates even more more today as we grapple with what the purpose of life should be.
Nice
I agree 💯 wholeheartedly, without reservation 😮
@@carminemurray6624
Read also H G Wells' 1946
"Mind At The End Of Its Tether"
which should be made into a movie.
That's Wells' Attestation of man's utter
failure, as his testament that touched
The Metaphysical.
A salute to the incredible intellect and creative genius of H.G. Wells.
Unfortunately the story remains the same: Humanity is stupid, and there is always some evil jackass to take advantage of that.
"Have a nice day"
Thanks for the beautiful movie, all the best...
Everyone is a puppet.
All scripted.
Freemason predictive programming.
@@GregZO6
If only Wells' last book 📖
"Mind At The End Of Its Tether"
is made into a movie !
Ya named drump😢
@@zbigniewkosior6357 whatever
this film did predict the future in that it is full of people who enthusiastically spout their worldviews at eachother and refuse to conceive that anyone who disagrees should even exist, let alone be reasoned with. the sweet, stary-eyed, corny aesthetics are lots of fun to look at. five stars
The Art Deco Atmosphere of the whole movie Is a feature not to be ignored; a big film from any angle, great actors, fantastic book and dreamy scenarios. What else can you ask for? A Master Piece! Thank you for posting.
It is indeed ! Like Norman Bel Geddes designs. The design wave got called 'streamlining'. Geddes was active in the theatre/film set design, also world exhibitions.. etc. Not much of his work is left to this day.....
(Annecdote: in the time I had lend out the book 'Horizons' (by N B Geddes) to a collegue of mine, and it was never returned. It's an unwritten rule with books that 'lent is given'... lol ... I had to learn over the years, never to lend out my books ...I lost almost a dozen in that way )
The set design is incredible.
This movie made 3 years before World War 2, helps to realize the frame of mind of the era.
At the start of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
This movie is clearly anti war and rightfully so. That is why there were no flags or actual names of political powers I think. To avoid taking sides and just deliver the message. That is why we now have war too. Obsession over ideology. The Nazies rather quickly started their pro war moves as soon as they came to power in 1933. I am sure you could see it in their obsession that it could lead to war. The Nazie's view on Germany's treatment after WW1 was already known. I am sure you could pick up the scent of revenge...
It depends on what part of the world you're talking about. Japan was already occupying mainland China.
It was deep state programming for what was planned....notice the name's of the characters, The distributor and the movie companies name 🧐
... But that's pretty much the definition of a regional conflict, not a world war, which simply had not yet begun.
My Hungarian dad (born in 1906) was involved in this production in the U.K. I believe it was in 1935-36. Since the producer Korda György was Hungarian, it was rather easy to get spot on his productions with a Hungarian background.
Hooray for Hungary! Egershegerdred!
Did he work on 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles' also?
Lovely production for its time, but Wells was a voice of the elite. WWII would be brought into existence. It's the same patterns each cycle. Predictive programming.
How prophetic this was at the time. How terrifying it would be for those few who lived through it to see this now.
A groundbreaking film right up there with Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Looking back at what transpired after this film came out showed how prescient it was. An excellent cast of the greats of that era.
Fascinating. A good editor would have helped, but I loved the futuristic machines. It showed how history repeats itself too.🐏🐑
Yes.
Metropolis is nothing compared to this masterpiece, idk why people get so excited about Metropolis, it was always an obscure and niche film, most people didn't care about it until recently.
I believe everyone should see this great film. Living today in America, this film shows how wars sneak upon you. Let's keep looking around and notice the things that are around us. Listen to things around us. We can no longer trust everything people say, we must believe in their actions. We must remember our history of the the 20th century wars. The same causes of the last war is starting to become a cause for our next war. People who are greedy and want power that are willing to step on the backs of the weak and poor to obtain power over everyone are already here. They are already in our Congress. Are u people watching? They read history and they know what to do. Do you?
They don't read history and they don't know what they are doing.
@bretthess6376 Agreed. We now have duly elected Representatives in Washington who believe in Jewish Space Lasers, and a cabal of the world's elite who kidnap children in order to harvest their pineal glands to obtain adrenochrome (among other even more nefarious purposes).
No, they don't read history; most of them don't read, period, and they haven't a clue as to what they're doing. Those from that side of the aisle who did saw the writing on the wall immediately following the 2016 election and fled like their tails were on fire.
They know history but like Hitler believe that it doesn't apply to the. Will their money and power save them death. Pride truly is the worse of the seven deadly sins.
I do. I smashed my television 6 years ago.
How ironic this movie was produced in 1936, 87 years ago, and even though technology has advanced with leaps and bounds, mankind is still not anymore civilized. All we have learned to do is kill more efficiently, faster and with greater impunity. We actually made it to the moon in the 1960's but this movie saw this reality so far in advance it is amazing!! But we really aren't any better off than the people in this movie.
No CGI or PC nor political BS just a very interesting view of the future for its time the military industrial complex comes to mind and its need for continuing wars mainly financial me thinks sad but true
Just to add, I think the young girl with her Grandfather is; Dame Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren, DBE, FRS, FRCOG (26 April 1927 - 7 July 2007)[1] was a British scientist who was a leading figure in developmental biology.[2] Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation (IVF),[3] and she received many honours for her contributions to science, including election as fellow of the Royal Society. Was her only movie
Was she Fabian socialist and part of Order of the Eastern star?
You should find out and if so look into their seedy past
@zabdas83 Isn't she one who started extracting adrenochrome from the pineal glands of children who were kidnapped and killed by the global elite, in their insatiable thirst for Satanic power?
I do understand that a certain degree of fascination with crackpot, lunatic conspiracy theories is perennial. But don't you ever think this might be getting just a little out of hand here in recent years?
Yes, it is her. One of my biggest regrets was not realising she was still alive in early 2007, when we did the UK DVD release (Network), as we could have sought her out for an interview. Sadly, she was killed in a car crash in the July.
Wells actually wanted his neice to play the little girl, but McLaren was chosen instead (Wells was friends with her parents).
@@zabdas83 Not everyone buys into nonsense conspiracy theories.
@Nickcooper625 But enough do to make it depressing.
I can hardly praise this movie highly enough !
The photographic quality and the way it's coordinated, the power of it's imagination.
Outstanding for the time period.
@@handsomeman-pm9vy Yes, but the script writer is so stilted by what we expect now.
H.G. Wells published this book in 1933. Isaac Asimov published the Foundation story in serial form beginning in 1942. It seems to me that Wells had a huge influence on Asimov, in which the latter took not only the rise and fall of Rome , as is usually stated, for his inspiration for Foundation, but expanded on Wells' work of Things To Come. Don't know for sure... but there seems to be an influence.
I think you may well be right. This is a connection which had not occurred to me, even though I read several of Wells's and Asimov's books many years ago.
H.G Wells was a master storyteller and visionary. Sadly, he is gone and yet the would-be conquerors and war-mongers remain and sadly, they always will.
Wow, what a good movie. I'd never heard of it.
For a movie released in 1936 the special effects are brillian, especially the futuristic part towards the end.
Loved it.
*spoiler alert*
The futuristic part nailed it with the flat screen tvs, smartwatch, and those outfits the men wore I believe I've seen those on those weird designer runway outfits that men wear, lol.
Ah , finally the date. I can't figure why the date is so often left out.
Londoners at the viewing of this movie, laughed when seeing the bombing of "London." Little did they realize that in just a few years...
And a few years after - the sudden *BANG!* of an arriving guided Vengeance missile!
No they didn't (it's not actually London in the film). When it was re-released in 1943 audiences did laugh at the rather poor model shots of the enemy aircraft crossing the white cliffs of Dover, but the bombing scenes were greeted by silence.
@@Nickcooper625 You mistook what I said.
@@frankmariani1259 No, I recognised that you claimed something that wasn't true.
One of the great movie scores of all time, by Sir Arthur Bliss. But now we have Klaus Schwab and the WEF....let's hope the Moon Rocket wasn't designed by Virgin....no place for the little people, no place for freedom.
The Director's brother, Vincent Korda, did the sets and Ned Mann did the Special Effects in this oldie. Elaborate details in so many 'pieces' of equipment must have taken a lot of work. There is no character development at all, and the cast of fine actors come and go with no insight to who they are. I prefer Fritz Lang's Metropolis to this one with a similar plot and a much better story. This was shown in So. Cal. in the 60s to crowds of 'Hippies' that loved it, especially since 1967 was a lot different than Wells imagined it. :)
Well I think the two films are setting out to do very different things. I can see this appealing to hippies in the 60s with Vietnam and everything else going on. The one area Metropolis does shine is the world building in the story. And remember back in the 60s it was really hard to get a good copy of Metropolis, so it really wasn't until the 80s with the short reconstructed version that people got serious about putting the film back together.
@@glenchapman3899 Good point!
Mr CholmondelyWarner rules now.
I am surprised and saddened by the fact that, often, the highly acclaimed HD-restorations of a film are mainly concerned with the images (good job!) while completely disregarding the audio.
👍
Very good point, I've also noticed how
Visuals seem to have a higher hierarchical position in film restoration than Audio.
When you would expect them to be seen as ine overall interconnected whole.
Such an exiting movie in 2023 stands to reason in 1935 this movie on the big screen must have been awesome
Hi PD, I have seen this on the big screen, and your right it is awesome full size. (Pretty awesome on the small one too). TG
There's a plan and Mr Wells knew it
Best thing about miniature destruction is the lack of smoke getting in the way, cgi may be more spectacular but in my book it's not better or more effective in the telling of a good story.
The first 30 minutes or so of this is amazing. That HG Wells meddled too deeply in the project (a superior writer who knew nothing about making movies) made it less of a movie than it ended up being. And this one is a true classic, despite Wells' sometimes ham-handed dialogue. Great performances all through this, especially Sir Ralph Richardson's scene-munching turn as The Boss. Considering this was made primarily in 1935 (released in '36), marvel at the effects available at the time. There was nothing like it before, and the blueprint for many movies that came after. I have the full Criterion set this was taken from; excellent print.
Where did they film the futuristic city and the space gun?
In the mid 1930's Wells was about 70 years old and like others, he knew well that a war in Europe was coming. Being vehemently anti-war, I think he saw this film as a way of more widely presenting his ideas for the positive social progress that could emerge from such a conflict. He had previously written on this theme in 1897 and 1931, as well as the fictional "discussion" in 1933, bearing the same title as the film. I very much doubt that Korda or Menzies would have allowed him too much freedom to meddle during production. In fact the film was heavily cut both before release and also in 1943. The dialogue is typically Wellsian - it should probably be viewed as a "Victorian" didactic style rather than "ham-handed". The whole film is more of a sermon than an entertainment.
Fantastic cinematography and then for some they tipped their hand and showed a scene that was all too obviously a toy tank in the sandbox @16:39 😅
@@flashgordon6670 The Space Gun was a large model built on what would become the back-lot of Denham Studios (the land had been acquired, but the studio not yet built), where the two version of the Everytown square were also constructed, one complete for 1940, and the other ruined for the 1966 and 1970 sequences. The 2036 Everytown was all shot in the studio with hanging miniatures.
@@Nickcooper625 Saddam Hussain’s super gun was supposed to be a space gun, there’s a film about it that I saw recently, not too bad. Doomsday Gun 1994 with Frank Lagella.
I bet there’s a secret space gun somewhere, or more than one. That would explain all the UFOs, the black holes in our economies, all the missing gold and what keeps the world relatively peaceful, at least for now that is.
If a broken 2 bit Middle East country could consider doing it, it must be done already by someone. Logically it would be underground in a silo with a concealed rooftop emplacement, the energy from the blast would be absorbed by giant springs and things. The gun could go back down on a bracket with sliders and the whole thing encased in within a giant hydraulic piston that contains the sound shockwaves and also doubles cooling the gun barrel. The gun barrel has electro magnets to aid the UFOs, either reducing, or completely eliminating the blast from explosive propellants and or compressed air is used instead, or in duo with electro magnets. Bung a few dudes in flying saucers and Bob’s your uncle.
THE MUSIC! THE MUSIC! Shame sound recording was still quite primitive, but you can hear its magnificence in various rerecordings of suites from this movie. Arthur Bliss rivalled Prokofiev in the quality of his film scores.
Still after all these years, a great cautionary tale. Unfortunately, Wells was one of those writers, ie Verne, that his fiction has a tendency to become fact. Chilling to contemplate the possible fact with this tale. I think someone already mentioned Wars and rumors of Wars, but this also includes a pandemic from bio/chemical warfare. The older I get, the more this film gives me the willies. Probably a good thing Wells didn't envision nukes. Cheers
@paulceglinski7172 Sorry to be pedantic, but... I.e. means "that is". A lot of people confuse it with e.g., which means "for example". When I was a kid I perceived an easy way to always remember this: "Eg", if pronounced as a word, sounds like the first syllable of the way that most Americans pronounce the word "example", i.e. "egg-zample".
Neither of these terms actually fits into what you were saying, but you probably intended e.g., as in "Wells was one of that group of writers, e.g. Jules Verne, who..." It's still a little awkward, but it essentially does work. "A la" would actually have been the perfect fit; if it had been in that place, then no other alteration to the sentence would've been necessary.
Also, "biochemical" is a perfectly standard English word. It's not "bio/chemical".
My first time seeing this classic film. Amazing! Wells was such a visionary. Remarkable. Thanks for sharing.
H . G. Is my homie
In my 66 years, this is the first time I have seen this movie. Really well done for its time. I would not mind flying the Auto-gyro near the end as it is a nice design even by today's standards and the way the space craft was lifted resembles the SpaceX Starship somewhat 🙂
The thing at the end was just a cannon & SpaceX is a rocket
I'm in your age group. I wish I saw this as a kid, and not today at 68.
That was a totally unrealistic autogyro, just silly actually. Not at all like the flight envelope of a real autogyro
First time seeing this film and I'm 69.
Do I win?
@@jacketrussell HEEeey, loooks like we have a winner, come right on up here, sir! Gene, tell him whats he's won!
Incredible considering the film was made in 1936. Wells definitely had inside information of the scripted plan well in advance.
I don’t think he had any inside information. The clues were there for anyone to see in the mid 30s’. Fascists telling huge lies that populations wanted to hear. We are in the middle of a similar situation right now in 2023. Fascists are rising again, scapegoating and lying and there are millions just swallowing those lies whole. Selling fear and anger.
You whistle well, Robin!
Arthur C Clarke recommended this film to Stanley Kubrick. After watching it, Kubrick said he would never watch another film recommended by Clarke!
And then he went on to make Dr. Strangelove, the other great anti-war satire.
You would think this was a WW2 movie It looks like the bombing of Britain really Happened
Interesting thought that this film got a re-release in 1940, imaging watching this in a London cinema during the bitz then walking home in the blackout.
What a frickin masterpiece. I've seen this about a half-dozen times. It gets better every time. This may be the best print I've seen. One of the few truly epic sci-fi sagas ever created...
At about the 16 minute mark,the part where the people were gassed to death is missing including the child plugging his nose with fingers. I have a copy of this in the collection. This movie is an introduction to one world gouvernment. Movie WAY ahead of it's time and excellent,,,, ,thanx!
And mentioned involvement of free masonry
Why is it ahead of its time?
@@debravictoria7452 No, that's just a metaphor.
Almost all of the initial attack on Everytown has been deleted. A shame.
I very much enjoyed seeing this classic film. Very impressive special effects before CGI was used. Loved (marveled) at the practical effects of tiny people running on huge sets, huge model buildings, and much more for set design. There are some interesting aircraft in the film too (both real and imaginary). Sadly, this film also made me think of our present day situation with a world fearing WW3 and recent pandemic, etc. Futurism is like that, with some dystopian ideas and some hope too. FYI: there is a wikipedia page devoted to this film which provides details on production, etc. Worth reading if you are interested in the film.
I was also impressed with the practical effects. There just isn't any movie magic in CGI effects, just sterile technology.
Thanks!
Spine-chillingly accurate..
One can only suggest this be seen in a Theater. I had that extraordinary experience, a good print at a good "house," some years ago. Such an elegant production...
Yes absolutely, this movie has to be experienced on the big screen.
Always cowards and looking for power. Smh
When Stanley Kubrick approached Arthur C. Clarke about collaborating on a prospective science fiction film production, Clarke made a list of previously made SF films for Kubrick to see, THINGS TO COME being one of them . . . and Kubrick absolutely hated it. Kubrick, of course, was far more interested in depicting a future that seemed believable, for all its wondrous technological advances, and it's interesting to contrast the more realistic, mundane dialogue in "2001" with the stentorian declamations delivered by the Orators in this production. I can see why it wasn't Kubrick's cup of tea, but it has its place in the history of SF in films, and we have to be able to appreciate it for what it was, coming from an "old school" sensibility and generations removed from the more sophisticated visions of the Future we've gotten in subsequent productions. THINGS TO COME was not a film that sought to explore its subject with subtlety, that's for sure. Thanks for the upload.
Thanks for sharing that info about Kubrick and this film. I liked your comments.
Kubik added to the fear stricken society already barely reeling from one war to the next... if the truth was known to the masses the against communism would stop... after all, all wars are finaced(bankers). Without collateral no backing! Just let that sink in .... now we turn east, our attention the middle east and Asia. Let the dis-information of world government news add the fear.
Well lease this film is way more interesting than Kubrick's 2001 Space Oddesy, which made me fall asleep.
@@virgilwilliams2378 No it's not!
@@QuadriviumNumbers Uh.. The intro made me fall asleep.
"science is a magnificent material force,
but it is not a teacher of morals."
- William Jennings Bryan
An absolutely incredible but frightening movie perhaps more so now than in 1936. Wells wasn't science fiction. He was delivering the plots already developed long before hand. He paints Freemasonry in a good light. He was either calculating or deceived.
Not even through the credits before it's interrupted by adverts. Hopeless. Does TH-cam think it's ok to mar classics like this? 😡
Which is why I switched to TH-cam premium. Grant it, I have to pay monthly, but it’s worth it to me not to have to be harassed by incessant advertisements constantly interrupting my viewing.
The movie turns the story of H.G. Wells' novel "The Shape of Things to Come" into a warning to not fall back into old european failures, and selfdestroy society by war. Given that, when he wrote it in 1933, for insiders of the british establishment, it already must have been knowledge, that their own secret service, together with the US American OSS, had installed and financed the build up of the Nazi party in Germany. The ties between London and Mussolini too were impressive. It was not difficult for an intelligent person in England, to prophetize a second chapter of the just finished first world war. In 1936, when the movie was shot, the pre-war-propaganda already had started, so the film centers in the prophecy of the upcoming new war, as well as in the system change to worldgovernance by a freemasonry-like power he hoped that would come after the destruction.
But the book is about a lot more stuff, and shows clearly both, the use of war and the use of pandemics, to break up the society, and sent common people back to medieval living conditions, that finally allow the return to a feudalistic society model, benefitting a distant elite. Actually, it's one of many books that have anticipated what right now seems to happen, with the newly plague and Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Congo, Somalia, Sudan, soon all the Sahel nations, perhaps all Europe, and then East Asia and the Pacific too.
We should not forget that Wells was a leading figure of the british technocratic and eugenic movement, anchored in the islands' ruling class and its global empire. The novel Shape of the things to Come, must be recognized as a support to the work of manies along a longer time, creating actually a manual for the political class, how to carry on the great reset under the intrests of a supra-political, supra-national and supra-social elite, mostly invisible for the eyes of normal mortals. The publication of that kind of work, actually suggestions for the successful imposition of a new order, as science fiction literature, only helped to make the intention unseen. The "brotherhood of efficiency" and "Freemasonry of science", are terms that clearly reveal the technocratic character, as well as the origins of all conspiracy leading to a world government with global competence and technocratic model. The comparation, that the old form of government should vanish "like the Tyrannosaurus and the saber-toothed tiger", is a clear indication of the darwinistic background of his ideology, generally connected to malthusianism and eugenicism . It's important to know that Wells himself wrote the script himself for the film, but did not want to be credited as the script-writer. All of the model building in the film (architecture and flying machines) is also based on drawings that he included in the script, and even the basics of the futuristic fashion. His vision in that details shows a clear connection to the futurism movement too, originally british, that became to form part of the italian fascism, not less than marxist ideas (Mussolini, before he received financment from Lenin to create a new party, was leader of the communist wing of Italy's Socialist Party). He shared those utopic vision not only with italian futurists, but with three persons extremely close to Hitler too: the architect Albert Speer, the film maker Leni Riefenstahl, and the engineer, expert in nuclear weapon technology seen from an industrial angle, Eugen Schwab (father of Klaus from the WEF).
Many british and american writers of the past two and a half centuries, belonged to, what today we call the globalist movement.
Of course there is one big difference between Wells wet dreams and our reality of the Agenda 2030:
"The Dictatorship of the Air“ now will not be excerted by a brotherhood of war-pilots, but by the brotherhood of private-plain-owners.
By the way, the whole scenario that we have been consciously experiencing since 2020 (actually it all started decades ago) has actually already been completed, but now has to be presented to the public for its confirmation. This would then mean that the new order would be universal law. After Two or three more generations, acceptance would be complete; before then, any protest against the transitional regime will be responded to with the harshest repression.
And even a "clinical trial" was realized to evaluate all details of the methods to wreck the old society, to make space for the new order. That was the destruction of Venezuela under Chávez and Maduro. Now the reconstruction has begun, a few years ago. And it gives great benefits to the ruling classes, while it not only leaves the normal people in misery, but even ratifies the misery they have been dumped into, in a process from 2003 to 2017 (2014- '17, Venezuela's people had to face: 3 years of epidemics with african endemic diseases in the american country, lockdowns, work prohibition, social distancing and many, too many, TV spots promoting to wash your hands...) Before the begin of the exclusive reconstruction work, around the first semester of 2017, Venezuela even looked, like a war would have devastated the richest oil-country in the world.
The good thing, as the cronology around this movie proofs (prophetic movie about the 2nd world war bringing the end to national states and the rise of the global technocracy), they couldn't control a world in war, and couldn't reach their goal in 1945. Back then, they only could create hegemonies, that have failed too, already. The big question today, should be, what makes their grandchildren today so sure that they would be better than their ancestors were? Once hell breaks out, no one mortal can stop it again. No war ends as wished, at least not, if elites and governments of enemy nations don't fight together against the common people all around the world.
Something else: Who can explain, after knowing this movie from 1936, why it had to be Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis, a war pilot who had lost his brother serving in the army, who interrupted the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars, right the meeting that ended with the first step to global governance, by UN's constitution, that no one seems to have read further than to the list of Human Rights added to the Charta?
Best answer gets my "like" 😉
P.S.: There was a poor remake of the movie in the 1960s or '70s. But please don't fall for the title of a 2006 film of the same name, it has absolutely nothing to do with it. 👍
OOps, I would have nearly forgotten one last jewel: Elon Musk's grandfather was a personal friend to H.G. Wells, and another great pioneer of technocratic globalist theories, who, being South African, married with an english aristocratic, after establishing his successful business as a trader of southafrican diamonds and gold, in London, and participated there in events at the Fabian Society and practicing in the same freemasonic lodge that was attended by Bertram Russel and H.G. Wells. All three are thought to have reached grade 30.
A most egregiously underrated and unappreciated youtube comment.
Very insightful observations
and good snippets of information.👍👍
In 1936 That little plane at 33:30 was , and still is a bad ass design.
The great 1939 World's Fair was right around the corner. All WHITE!!! The future made incarnate! Of course all utopia's are illusions.
Wells was a voice for NewWorldOrder propaganda...
He was in bed, with the Mother church of Oz/ Vaticanus !!! The new Order of the World !!! Is disorder for people !!!📢😱😵🤨🤔
As opposed to being a voice for militant nationalism, which has worked out so well…for wealthy fascists!
"a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel."
Didn't America and Britain used to be one of those?
I know. Now look at us.
Used to. Now it take private people like Elon Musk to attempt those things. If NASA yoes to Mars it be a quifk flag planting mission and then it will just fizzle out like the moon missions did.
Yes, the British space program is such a success that no one has heard of it, unless you consider Richard Branson the British space program. 😏
@@alisdairmclean8605 Us? There is no US.
That must have been a pretty bizarre movie in 1936.
The camera work. The music. The sets. Pure genius. What else can one say?
Outstanding for the time period.
@@handsomeman-pm9vy Beautiful in any period!
@@handsomeman-pm9vy Why so caught up in that overused phrase ? It's great compared to almost anything Hollyweird has produced since 2010.
Transformers was better.
@@Morra5472 ......too bad that the story line of Transformers only appealed to nit wits.......
shows u dont need cgi to tell a good story--this is brilliant!
Heck yes Mr.
CGI sucks!
Well it was CGI really, for instance from this period & carried on into the 60s, if a backdrop of a castle on a hill, they would paint that backdrop scene onto a sq metre of glass & then positioned it so the camera picked it out & it looked so real. Was used a lot in Tyrone Power swashbuckling movies etc right into big productions like Ben Hur. Then Ray Harryhausen & his stop motion that inspired Wallace & Gromit, they took it to another world that Ray wouldn't believe possible. Disney classic years was frame by frame of drawings. It's too easy now.
@@seltaeb9691
No! CGI (computed generated images).
@@seltaeb9691 just stop ok
Well, that was silly.
Flat-screen TV (1:13:14)
"This modern world is full of voices..." How appropriate!
now we're living it.
Wells was way ahead of his time and I feel he somehow saw what the future held for humanity and wrote about it in his amazing books!!
Had the privilege of seeing it on the big screen at the local museum, still relevant nearly a century after it was made.
As a kid I always remember seeing stills from this film in magazines like Starlog and Famous Monsters of Filmland, and I can't believe that I finally got to see it in 2023! The design of this movie is incredible, and it's plot is epic and intriguing, and it makes one remember that at one time Science Fiction movies were really science fiction, but then I guess it helps to have your source material come from an actual Sf author.
It's too bad we'll never see the original 117 minute cut.
kidding? whats about this more scince fiction?
DItto. I still have some of my old Starlogs, the poor tattered things. Only in the last couple of years am I getting around to taking in and appreciating the classics.
What a great early sci-fi movie. I enjoyed it immensely
If you have yet to learn the truth about WWI & WWII... then shame on you.
Precursor to "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
Precursor to world War Two!
This and metropolis are where it's at. Outstanding.
The one thing that the movie got spot-on in its portrayal of the future is plastic. Plexiglas, and similar polymers, were all very new in 1936. Today, they are ubiquitous.
the tiny hats lol
A lot of time passed before deciding to watch this, considering B & W, 1936, must be a dud. Nevertheless, the name HG Wells finally persuaded me to watch Things to Come, and man, I'm happy to have watched it, which was outstanding. Flying Wings, space guns, and peace gas, an imagination far ahead of 1936.
@stephensowell9578 Let's hope, then, that perhaps you will reconsider those criteria that caused you to believe that it must be a dud. My experience with films that meet those criteria and are still being watched is the exact opposite.
And of all things to single out, B&W??? You've just eliminated the entire film noir genre. Do you really, seriously, have no appreciation for stunning cinematography if it's not in color? How truly sad for you!
@@keiththompson-mg4yt I'm glad to hear from a cinema buff, and I often use this criterion to select entertainment. For science fiction especially. When it comes to free youtube, anything to speed up the prosses.
there are so many excellent movies that are B&W, how on earth can you pass on movies simply because of that. That is insane. There are even some silent movies that are worth watching.
It amazes me how far in the future did our best science fiction writers see.
Outstanding for the time period.
Mary Shelley in 1818 foresaw bringing a body back to life using animal parts in Frankenstein. However ancient Egyptians thought gods came from another star system They also did some type of brain surgery. Some thought the pyramids might have been used as a transmitter or receiver. Also, there is something called The Bagdad battery. The ark of the covenant might have also been some kind of battery a person that touched it died. Although in movie Raiders of the lost ark they called it a radio.
Not so sure about the ancient aliens thing. The achievements of the Ancient Egyptians goes beyond the Pyramids (I have been inside the Great Pyramid.). The Egyptians were advanced with animal husbandry and deliberately designing varieties of crops for different seasons. The afterlife for those, who lived good lives, was paradise in the Land of Reeds. The dead had to prove their virtue to a series of Gods. Anubis and Osiris measured the deceased heart on scale against a feather. Nothing extraterrestrial.
@petersinclair3997 Thank you for that injection of the rational.
I'm nearly certain that we've excavated numerous fossils from the days when we lived in caves in Europe whose skulls showed evidence of trepanning. I'm not sure if that meets the definition of ancient brain surgery, or not. But then again, I don't know what the OP was referring to in that attribution.
a movie of the future and of its time. I particularly noted the boss "Rudolph" in his nazi like uniform receiving double armed salutes from his airman, and also the Wings Over the World airmen in all black bearing some resemblance to Oswald Mosely's British Union of Fascists
Hallowed are the engineers.
H.G. Wells is rightly known for some truly ground-breaking novels. And seeing WW2 coming in 1935 was not unimaginable, but still fairly prescient. But then.
The comments made the film seem promising. But I have rarely seen so depressing a vision of the future that was intended to be otherwise. Apparently, there are only two possibilities, each woefully dehumanizing. Sorry I spent my time on it. This is so unbearably small a view of the human spirit and the wealth of riches it can contain.
farmergiles1065 It is all going on now, especially if you are jew.
@@naguerea And also if you are a Christian.
Best quality version I’ve seen of this film. Thank you for posting it!
Isn't it a lovely movie?
It's weird... But it's also charming. I read about this film but I've not seen it until now.. Thanks so much for posting this film. 🎥🎥
Hard times make strong men.
Strong men make good times.
Good times make weak men.
Weak men make hard times.
_So it goes..._
This is a Fabulous movie, so good I got it on DVD . Worth it , all the way. I have a huge Collection of my Sci fi black and white movies . Better than any movie made today. Just my opinion though .🤠🖖
Your opinion seems to be my opinion, too. H.G. Wells was perhaps the most fabulous sci-fi writer of all time. The Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds was a much better rendition of the earlier one, with Gene Barry as the lead. My only complaint, a minor one, is that the scene should have been set in England instead of America, like it was in the H.G. Wells novel.
Your opinion seems to be my opinion, too. H.G. Wells was perhaps the most fabulous sci-fi writer of all time. The Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds was a much better rendition of the earlier one, with Gene Barry as the lead. My only complaint, a minor one, is that the scene should have been set in England instead of America, like it was in the H.G. Wells novel.
Two Great British Sc / Fi writers , Wells along with John Wyndham .
Full audiance emotional impact will never be known... Movie has been edited. Very dramatic part. The lil drummer boy after air raid is cut from this movie.
"The Gas of Peace". I still crack up.
Why not a gas of peace?
@@handsomeman-pm9vy "Hey, you know that slaver clan you're trying to wipe out? Live and let live, bro. That's way too violent. We're just gonna knock you out, take all your weapons and let bygones be bygones..."
"It is my gas. It is a bad gas".
@@handsomeman-pm9vy I used to get that at the dentist's.
Such a brilliant movie! So far ahead of its time!
I forgot how communist it was.
The sound track is amazing . The whole movie is amazing .
Great upload, thanks. Best quality version that I've seen....👍👍👏
“All the universe or nothing; which shall it be…which shall it be?”
The only two choices for the future of mankind.
@@michaelclentworth1283 "So, I have to ask you the same question a lot of people back home are asking about space these days...Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea...and take care of our own problems at home?"
"No we have to stay here. And there is a simple reason why. Ask 10 different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics..and you'll get 10 differnt answers. But there is one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in 100 years or 1000 years or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it will take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstien and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophanes and all of this...all of this...was for nothing, unless we go to the stars." ~ Commander Jeffery Sinclair - Babalyon 5 "Infection"
l opt for Nothing.....we have too many problems to resolve here before we elect to burn billions of Sterling on a Space race to nowhere.
This was part propaganda for the world war on the horizon that this film could never comprehend the horrors that unfolded, that if had been put in would be deemed unthinkingly puerile.
The chief has more than a touch of Boris Johnson about him
Is it the fur vest?
No, it is another ego driven power seeker, who so far has escaped justice by a paid for system..
If only the governments around the world saw it like H.G.Wells did. Oh how much better all our lives would
be.
This is one helluva
movie for 1936…and way ahead of it’s time for sure