Unlike in the original short story of “The Twonky,” the movie’s mad machine is a TV rather than a radio. Also, we never explicitly see the machine’s construction by a time traveler, but the professor’s discussions with the coach make it clear that they  believe the machine is from the future, and that’s good enough for us.

And finally, when you watch the wacky film, you’ll see that Arch Oboler devised a different fate for the Twonky than that in Kuttner and Moore’s original story.
Michael Main
Kerry: Then it is from another world?

Coach Trout: No, from our world, centuries in the future.

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  1. The Twonky, written and directed by Arch Oboler (at movie theaters, USA, 10 June 1953).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Arch Oboler
    Henry Kuttner (based on a work by)
    C. L. Moore [uncredited] (based on a work by)
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . directed by Arch Oboler

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based on “The Twonky” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (1942)