Disclaimer
"Sometimes
people tend to forget, that the [Time] Machine is a movie prop"
Rod Taylor
in the documentary film Time
Machine: The Journey Back
I am a great fan
of the Time Machine since the middle of the 1970's when I saw the George Pal
film The Time Machine in Yugoslavia or Hungary (not Sweden!) when I was
only five or six years old. This is for sure because i drew pictures with ornaments
very similar to those on the dish, and when I saw the Time Machine in the Carl
Sagan's TV-series Cosmos in May 1982 in Sweden, I remember I recognized
it with awe.
I didn't see The Time Machine in rerun until November 2002 on Swedish
TV. I taped it on a video cassette because it begun too late in the evening,
and when I saw the Time Machine again, it looked to me like a magnificient throne-sled
of a mighty Sun-Emperor complete with a crystal sceptre. This become a solution
to my fantasy novel The Tiaras of Power, which I have written since 1997
and which have a long history back in the 1970's. And this history is a mix
of Balkan, Hungarian and Swedish tradition and is totally different from the
American but I hope it will make you curious about the film and the book.
If
some pictures on my homesite seems irreverent, remember that Artezania
and all the kingdoms, cultures, religions and events in it, is a fantasy world
created by me and that the Time Machine in our (Terranian) world is a movie
prop created for the George Pal film. I'ts
like having a Bible as a movie prop (it has blank pages ...)
Sandra Petojevic, Master
of Arts in Art History and Visual Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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