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.
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!)...
