Each time a film goes through Peter Caxton’s projector at Tichenor Collegiate, it gets replaced with a different film from the future.

Van Vogt combined this with two other stories and a little fix-up material for his 1970 publication of Quest for the Future.
Not that he would necessarily have suspected anyway that he had come into possession of films that had been made more than fifty years in the future.

Variants

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  1. “Film Library” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, July 1946.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by A. E. van Vogt

Derived Works

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  1. Quest for the Future by A. E. van Vogt (July 1970).