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The Time Machine in Steven Spielberg's Gremlins!

The Time Machine appears in a science convent shown in the 1984 Steven Spielberg film Gremlins. If you roll over the image with the arrow you can see the Time Machine disappear in the future! If you click on the image, you will enlarge it.

The picture quality is poor, due to the fact that the image is taken from a video recorded from a TV-channel, and not from an original DVD-movie. Also the image is made of two parts, left and right, combined together. In the film you can never see the inventor speaking with his wife and the Time Machine at the same time. This scene appears after the scene with the wife making gingerbread men and having problem answering the cordless telephone invented by her husband.

One more trivia: the robot on the left is Robbie the Robot from the 1956 Fred McLeod Wilcox film Forbidden Planet.

The yellow quadrangles on the rear side of the Time Machine, barely visible in this scene of the 1960 film ...

Square or rectangular quadrangles? Four or six rows of quadrangles?

John Martin in United Kingdom drew my attention to the shape and number of the yellow quadrangles on the rear side of the 1960 Time Machine. He sent me this picture where Bob Burns’ friends are unloading the rescued time machine, which clearly shows 4 rows of square quadrangles on the back of the generator module. But a 1970 MGM auction photo and a hand scetch shows six rows of rectangle quadrangles...

See the images and the answers about the quadrangles here

If you find more trivia or goofs, mail them to me! Even this page can have some goofs (especially spelling ones!)...

Sandra Petojevic, Master of Arts, April 14, 2007 (Updated May 10, 2009)

 

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