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Post by mikef6 on May 14, 2017 16:04:25 GMT
In Berkeley Square (1933), Leslie Howard in transported back in time from his own year of 1933 to 1784. He accomplishes this by an alignment of circumstances and wishful thinking, much like the feat was done years later in Somewhere In Time (1980). There, Howard meets his ancestors, gets in trouble for blurting out things that haven’t happened yet, using strange words and terms that are not understood in the 18th century (“see you later”), and manages to upset the chronology of the past.
This film, based on a Broadway play that Howard had made a great success in, is a bit unusual for movies before the ‘60s. The concept of Time Travel in science fiction was not new. H.G. Wells had published his famous novel “The Time Machine” in 1895 (coining the term “time machine), but until the 1960s, time travel was a rare subject for movies. “Berkeley Square” was remade is several forms before 1960 including a feature film “The House In The Square” (1951). Sometimes the subject is flirted with as in René Clair’s It Happened Tomorrow (1944) when Dick Powell gets the power to see the next day’s newspaper, but Powell never travels himself and there is a hint of the supernatural. I can’t think of many good examples.
In the 1960s, there was something of a trend in time travel as entertainment. In 1960, director George Pal got Wells’ novel right with a great movie, The Time Machine, which is one of my personal favorites. The BBC series “Doctor Who” premiered in 1963 where we had an alien with an unusual time ship who could also travel in space. In the Good Ol’ U. S. of A., the series “The Time Tunnel” premiered in 1966. It only lasted for one season but is sometimes remembered as something of a cult classic.
Any comments on classic era time travel?
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Post by fangirl1975 on May 14, 2017 17:11:32 GMT
In A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court(1940s) the main character played by Bing Crosby gets conked on the head and wakes up in the Arthurian age.
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Post by london777 on May 14, 2017 17:25:14 GMT
Not exactly time travel, but lots of messing about with time in A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Time travel in Tom's Midnight Garden (a movie and two previous TV series).
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Post by london777 on May 14, 2017 17:32:10 GMT
He accomplishes this by an alignment of circumstances and wishful thinking, much like the feat was done years later in Somewhere In Time (1980). ... and in Midnight in Paris (2011) - Woody's worst film? |
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 14, 2017 20:04:28 GMT
Cesta do pravěku , Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)
Karel Zeman's excellent Czech film tells the story of four teenage friends who take a rowboat along a "river of time" that flows into a mysterious cave which emerges on the other side onto a strange, primeval landscape. Using a combination of amazing life-like 2-D and 3-D models the documentary-type nature of the film showed extinct animal species behaving naturally in their own environments. The film was most unusual for its era and foreshadowed many later TV and film productions. Beware of imitations the American's dubbed and partly re-filmed for a version they released in 1966.
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Post by Jonesy1 on May 14, 2017 20:09:53 GMT
I suppose A Christmas Carol could be considered to involve time travel.
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Post by london777 on May 14, 2017 22:40:10 GMT
Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) Alain Resnais
La Jetée (1962) Chris Marker
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 0:34:03 GMT
Cesta do pravěku , Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) Karel Zeman's excellent Czech film tells the story of four teenage friends who take a rowboat along a "river of time" that flows into a mysterious cave which emerges on the other side onto a strange, primeval landscape. Using a combination of amazing life-like 2-D and 3-D models the documentary-type nature of the film showed extinct animal species behaving naturally in their own environments. The film was most unusual for its era and foreshadowed many later TV and film productions. Beware of imitations the American's dubbed and partly re-filmed for a version they released in 1966. For that matter, the astronaut in Zeman's BARON PRASIL is time-travelled, courtesy of Baron Munchhausen, as well. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 15, 2017 2:45:29 GMT
Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem , Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977) Czech
Creative, hilarious and clever Jindřich Polák's excellent film is set in the near future. Technology enabling time travel has been developed and is now in commercial use.
A group of former Nazis who have not aged because they have taken anti aging pills, conspire to alter the results of the Second World War by traveling back in time and supplying Adolf Hitler with a hydrogen bomb...
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Post by manfromplanetx on May 15, 2017 6:19:38 GMT
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Post by koskiewicz on May 15, 2017 16:38:04 GMT
"Things To Come"
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Post by teleadm on May 15, 2017 17:46:05 GMT
There is a movie from 1964 that suggests time traveling The Time Travelers 1964, "In 1964, a group of scientists create a portal that takes them to a barren, mutant inhabited, Earth in the year 2071". I haven't seen it myself.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 3:03:05 GMT
Oh - WORLD WITHOUT END and BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER, two sci-fi films from the 50s.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 18, 2017 1:24:27 GMT
I've never seen Berkeley Square, Mike, but I have seen one of the remakes, The House in the Square/I'll Never Forget You. As I'm a history buff, it seems like the sort of thing I'd like--and it might have inspired John Dickson Carr's (a.k.a. "my avatar's") time-travel books, some of his best work--but I found it as dull as its title. With that said, it did inspire an adventurous time-travel story I wrote, so--there's that... Has anyone else seen it, by any chance?
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Post by teleadm on May 18, 2017 17:48:58 GMT
If my memory is correct Slaughterhouse-Five 1972 also had something to do with time travelling, directed by George Roy Hill.
Time After Time 1979 by Nicholas Meyer, with Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells hunting Jack the Ripper in modern San Francisco (1979), a bit bloody for my taste, but an entertaining version of The Time Machine, and with a great old fashioned music score by soundtrack legend Miklós Rózsa (think this was his last)
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