The Time Travelers
- written and directed by Ib Melchior
- Feature Film
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- The Time Travelers, written and directed by Ib Melchior (at movie theaters, USA, 29 October 1964).
Using their time viewer, three scientists see a desolate landscape 107 years in the future, at which point the electrician realizes that the viewer has unexpectedly become a portal. All four jump through, only to have the portal collapse behind them, whereupon they are chased on the surface by Morlockish creatures who are afraid of thrown rocks, and they meet an advanced, post-apocalyptic, underground society that employs androids and is planning a generation-long trip to Alpha Centauri.
The film draws in at least four important additional time travel tropes: suspended animation, a single nonbranching, static timeline (with the corresponding inability to go back and change it), experiencing the passage of time at different rates, and a trip to the far future. And according to the SF Encyclopedia, the film was originally conceived as a sequel to the 1960 film of The Time Machine.
The film draws in at least four important additional time travel tropes: suspended animation, a single nonbranching, static timeline (with the corresponding inability to go back and change it), experiencing the passage of time at different rates, and a trip to the far future. And according to the SF Encyclopedia, the film was originally conceived as a sequel to the 1960 film of The Time Machine.
—Michael Main
Isn’t it obvious? The war did happen. You never did go back with your warning.
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- Time Periods
- Timeline Models
- Foretold or Seen Future Is Inevitable: needs verification [?]
- Single Consistent Timeline
- Viewing the Future: viewed through the chronoscope
- Time Travel Methods
- Chronoscopes
- Time Portal: The machine was intended only as a time viewer, but it turns out to be a time gate..
- Themes
- Fictional Tags
- Future Wars
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H. G. Wells’ Time Machine Universe: Not really in Wells’s world, but according to the [url=www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/time_travelers_the
]SF Encyclopedia[/url], it was originally conceived as a sequel to the 1960 film The Time Machine.. - Post-Apocalyptic and Post-Holocaust Worlds
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Variants
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- The Time Travelers, written and directed by Ib Melchior (at movie theaters, USA, 29 October 1964).
Ib Melchior (story)
David L. Hewitt as by David Hewitt (story)
Derived Works
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- Journey to the Center of Time, written and directed by David L. Hewitt (a forgettable day in 1967).