Feature Film
The Time Machine
- by Robert Barr, [director unknown]
- (BBC Television, UK, 25 January 1949)
The first TV broadcast of The Time Machine, a little less than an hour, came live from the BBC’s Studio A at Alexandra Palace on 25 Jan 1949 with a second revised broadcast on 21 Feb 1949.
Seeing as how there are no recordings of the broadcast, I wish I had my own time machine so I could send my Betamax® back to 1949. —Michael Main
Seeing as how there are no recordings of the broadcast, I wish I had my own time machine so I could send my Betamax® back to 1949. —Michael Main
Thomas Sheridan in Fantasy Review: In the first showing, after a brief interval in which the hands of the wall-clock recorded the passing of many hours, the lights began to dip and rise to indicate the passage of the days, and as this effect speeded up the walls of the room gradually dissolved. In the second performance this was cut out, killing the impression of fast-moving time. But, outside, the sun moves ever more swiFTLy across the sky until it is a continuous band of light, rising and falling to indicate the equinoxes, and throwing into vivid relief the changing shapes of successions of buildings which become more startlingly futuristic as the Traveller flashes through the ages.
