The Time Machine (1978 film)

The Time Machine is a 1978 American television film produced by Sunn Classic Pictures as a part of their Classics Illustrated series. Despite updating the plot to take place in the late 1970s, the film, which starred John Beck and Priscilla Barnes, was intended to be a more faithful plot recreation of the original novel by H.G. Wellsas opposed to the 1960 film adaptation, which took several liberties. The film aired during the November Sweeps on NBC.

Perry time travels twice over the course of a weekend, and reports to Haverson an analog to the novels Hillyer, Branley, and J.R. Worthington Andrew Duggan, chairman of the board of Mega Corporation. As Neil tells the story of his travels, reversed timelapse images of building construction demonstrate Neils passage backwards in time. Unlike the novel, the time machine and its rider do not stay in the same place as they travel through time, and the machine can travel to different locations. Perry first goes to 1692 Salem, Massachusetts where he is caught up in the Salem witch trials and found guilty of witchcraft. He is sentenced to be burned at the stake with his time machine. Tied up in the seat of his machine, he is able to free himself in order to escape. He detours into 1855 to avoid a time warp and arrives in the midst of the California Gold Rush, where he is shot at by miners and arrested for stealing a gold shipment. Perrys ingenuity and the distraction of a bank robbery allow him to escape.When Perry returns to his lab in the present, he receives a chilling report of the environmental impact of Mega Corporations latest weapons. Perry then travels into the future to supply proof for the reports projections and convince Haverson that Megas current agenda will lead to global devastation. Neil witnesses the fiery destruction of civilization, but also the reemergence of nature from the wasteland. During the devastation humanity retreated underground. Eventually some decided to return to the surface. Those who did so became the Eloi. Those who remained underground became the Morlocks. The Morlocks have just begun to harvest the Eloi for food when Perry arrives on the scene. He is befriended by Weena Priscilla Barnes, who explains how the EloiMorlock world came to be. A special museum of technology, showcasing weapons from Perrys era, includes Perrys name on a card identifying a weapon he designed. A video and audio presentation in the museum reveals that Perrys n

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