Time Machine Poster 1960 Movie George Pal Classic w/ Orig MGM Drawings

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The Time Machine – also known promotionally as H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine – is a 1960 Metrocolor time travel science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells in which a man from Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future where a new civilisation has gone wrong after a nuclear war. The film stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux and Alan Young.

The film was produced and directed by George Pal, who had earlier made a film version of Wells’ The War of the Worlds (1953). Pal always intended to make a sequel to The Time Machine, but he died before it could be produced; the end of Time Machine: The Journey Back functions as a sequel of sorts.

The film received an Oscar for time-lapse photographic effects showing the world changing rapidly.

“The Time Machine” (1960) is one of the classics of science fiction cinema. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells, it was directed by George Pal, starred Rod Taylor, Alan Young, and Yvette Mimieux, and featured Oscar winning special effects.

The distinctive Time Machine prop itself was co-designed by George Pal and MGM art director William Ferrari. Pal incorporated the look of a horse-drawn sleigh, inspired from the winter sleigh rides of his youth. It was built with an old fashioned barber’s chair, which Pal liked because it reminded him of a pilot’s seat. The chair was remodeled by the MGM artists to add feet and remove the pedal.

After filming, the Time Machine remained in storage at the studio for many years. MGM art director Bill Ferrari created the Machine, a sled-like design with a big, rotating vertical wheel behind the seat.

Near mint condition.