Journey to the Center of Time
- written and directed by David L. Hewitt
- Feature Film
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Journey to the Center of Time, as by David Prentiss, directed by David L. Hewitt (at movie theaters, USA, a forgettable day in 1967).
The writer, David L. Hewitt, took chunks of plot and script from The Time Travelers (1964), swapped the blonde for a brunette, swapped the accidental time gate for an accidental time rift that drags the whole lab through time as if it were a time ship, added a anachronistic dinosaur, and ended up with an unwatchable movie.
Like the 1964 version, this version has a brief mention that it’s impossible to change events that have already happened, but unlike the original, the montage at the end of the film is mere chaos that no longer reinforces the idea of a single deterministic, nonbranching timeline. Despite that, I enjoyed the consequences of the villainous character running into himself, but at the same time, I dismayed at the discussion of how meeting yourself could instantly cause a disastrous explosion or implosion or maybe something-or-other (the audio was unintelligible at 1:12) would cease to exist. (I pray that the space-time continuum wasn’t in peril).
Like the 1964 version, this version has a brief mention that it’s impossible to change events that have already happened, but unlike the original, the montage at the end of the film is mere chaos that no longer reinforces the idea of a single deterministic, nonbranching timeline. Despite that, I enjoyed the consequences of the villainous character running into himself, but at the same time, I dismayed at the discussion of how meeting yourself could instantly cause a disastrous explosion or implosion or maybe something-or-other (the audio was unintelligible at 1:12) would cease to exist. (I pray that the space-time continuum wasn’t in peril).
—Michael Main
Well, isn’t it obvious, Manning? The war did happen. We didn’t get back with our warning.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Rifts: Created by accident.
- Time Ships
- Themes
- Anachronistic Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Creatures: In 1,000,000 BC.
- Self-Visitation
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
- Groupings
Variants
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- Journey to the Center of Time, as by David Prentiss, directed by David L. Hewitt (at movie theaters, USA, a forgettable day in 1967).
- working title.
Time Warp, written and directed by David L. Hewitt.
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written by
David L. Hewitt as by David Prentiss
Previous Works
remake of The Time Travelers by Ib Melchoir (1964)
Indexer Notes
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- The lab isn’t really a Time Ship (it has no controls!), but the writer treats it as if it were.