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
The
Time Machine in The Big bang theory!
The
Time Machine and the morlocks appears in The Big bang theory,
season 1 (2007/08), Part 14 "The Nerdvana Annihilation" (directed
by Mark Cendrovski), which was aired in a rerun in Swedish television
channel 5, December 18 2012. Thank you Karl Andersson in Gothenburg,
Sweden, for spotting this one!
H.G.
Wells and his time machine in Lois & Clark!
H.G.
Wells and his Time Machine appears in Lois & Clark - the new
adventures of Superman in season 2, episode 18 "Tempus Fugitive".
The images above is from this episode, where H.G. Wells is kidnapped
by the villain Tempus and is taken to the year 1866, but he intentionally
drops his blueprint where Superman can find it and build a new Time
machine in seconds, and then travel back in time with Lois as Clark
Kent. The Time Machines are very similar in form and function to the
original 1960 Time Machine, but they needs gold as fuel.
Time
travel also appears in:
Season 3, episode 14 "Tempus, anyone?"
Season 4, episode 4 "Soul mates"
Season 4, episode 14 "Meet John Doe (1)"
Season 4, episode 15 "Lois and Clarks (2)"
A
Krell machine in Babylon 5!
"The
Great Machine of Epsilon III" from Babylon 5 is a massive,
massive underground machine, which is an homage to the "Krell machine"
from Forbidden Planet (1956). It is found in the Epsilon Eridiani
solar system.
Babylon
5 did only one time travel story, and it was extremely well planned
out. The first hint of it was in the pilot episode, we find "The
Great Machine" 2/3rds of the way through the first season, but
no one will tell what it does. We specifically find out time travel
is involved around episode 20 of the first year, but it's not until
a year or so later we find out "The Great Machine" is a time
machine tied to what happened in episode 20. Then we're 2/3rds of the
way through the third season when the whole time-travel story is resolved.
Here
is a more detailed summary of the time travel in Babylon 5. N.B.:
Spoiler alert!
This was spotted by the SF-writer Kevin Long in Mayfield,
Nebraska,
http://www.kevin-long.com
A
big size X in the 1960 movie The Time Machine!
When
George enters the eating hall, on the floor is a good size x in white
chalk on the floor.
Thank you Bob Daggett in Nevada, USA, for spotting this little rarebit!
If
you find more trivia or goofs, mail
them to me! Even this page can have some goofs (especially spelling
ones!)...
