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"time machine," now universally used to
refer to such a vehicle, was coined by Wells
himself. When the time traveler from 1895
stops in 1966, he sees a department store
display of "the latest tubeless TV," which
looks remarkably like one of our modern
flat panel computer monitors in 2014. The
film received an Oscar for then-state-of-the-
art time-lapse photographic effects showing
the world changing rapidly.
LA JETÉE (1962) uses only black and
white still photographs, voiceover narration,
sound effects and music to tell the gripping
story of a World War III survivor whose vivid
memories make him both the subject and
ultimate victim of time travel experiments.
Only in one shot of the film does an image
move: that of a woman slowly opening her
eyes. The 28-minute long French featurette
was inspiration for 12 MONKEYS (1995).
SILENT RUNNING (1972) imagines
a not-so-distant future in which all plant
life on Earth has been made extinct. Only
a few specimens have been preserved in
enormous, greenhouse-like geodesic domes
attached to space freighters. When the
resident botanist-ecologist who has been
carefully preserving the plants for eventual
reforestation of the planet is ordered
to jettison the trees he has so lovingly
cultivated for eight years, he rebels and
hijacks the freighter. The space freighter's
three tiny drone robots Huey, Dewey and
Louie (named after Donald Duck's nephews)
were operated by four multiple-amputee
actors. The film's space ship "Valley Forge"
was re-used in one episode of the television
series "Battlestar Galactica" (1978-79). It
was called the "agro-ship," used to grow
food for the colonists.
A.I. – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001)
is a visually spectacular, emotionally moving
and thought-provoking tale about the
quest of an unloved robot boy programmed
to love the programmer. When David is
shunned by the world in which was created,
he embarks on a lifelong journey of great
physical and emotional expense to find
the only thing he was ever programmed to
want. The movie was originally titled simply
"A.I.," but a survey revealed that because
too many people thought it was "A1," the
title was expanded to prevent people from
thinking it was about steak sauce!
Special thanks to IMDb and Wikipedia
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