History Film / TheTimeMachine1960

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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime: The Time Traveler goes forward in time at the speed of thousands of years every second, yet he can still see the wall behind him being built, block by block. Travelling this fast, he should barely be able to see any building ''last'', considering the lifespan of most structures humanity built.

* EternalEnglish: In the book the Eloi had their own language which the Time Traveler didn't understand, here they speak English ''over 800,000 years'' later. Presumably the talking rings have something to do with this.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: If the protagonist were really so close to a nuclear blast, he'd likely be vaporized. Even aside from that, the radiation sickness would soon kill him. The EMP the blast had also would burn out his time machine. Though to be fair, much of these effects were probably unknown to the public at the time.

* BrownNote: The Air-Raid Sirens. Over 800,000 years, the Eloi have been subconsciously conditioned to react to the noise by seeking refuge underground. So much so that they will blindly walk into the Morlocks' lair in a hypnotic trance.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: George initially sees the Eloi and their society as a natural paradise... until he finds they're too docile to want to rescue one of their own from drowning. And that's not even getting into the Morlocks who hide underground until it gets dark...

** The Time Traveller stops in the 1960s and finds himself in the middle of a nuclear attack, during which, the detonation of an "atomic satellite" causes a volcanic eruption — prompting the Time Traveller to hurry back to his machine and travel forward in time, narrowly avoiding death by lava flow.

* ExactWords: George agrees to Filby's promise that he "Won't go out of the house tonight", adding that he won't even "Walk out of the door". Instead, he only leaves the house after landing in ''1917'', to remove a few of the planks on his boarded-up windows.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: George is entirely out of place in the future society. They're nearly all apathetic, such that one of his first sights is several placidly watching while another drowns (who he rescues). Since in their time everything is given to them by the Morlocks, they spend all of their time just relaxing and eating. He's disgusted at first, feeling they've given up everything inventors like him worked to build, but then realized it's not their fault as they're kept this way by the Morlocks. After he finally realizes what the Morlocks [[ImAHumanitarian use the Eloi for]], George fights against this and resolves to change their ways for the better.

* TheLavaCavesOfNewYork: Somehow, the nuclear war of 1966 causes a volcano to erupt in...London. George winds up buried under a lava tube, and he has to zoom through 800,000 years before erosion wears it away.
** This was a pragmatic adaptation as the stop motion scenes of him passing through time in the machine were very difficult to do at the time, and having to do that for what amounted to hundreds of thousands of years would’ve been extremely expensive and time-consuming. This was a practical way to allow so much time to pass.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: The Time Traveller is addressed as "George", and his full name is visible on a plaque on the machine (H. George Wells).[[note]]He's named for author Creator/HGWells, as the "G" stands for George. Presumably the "H" stands for Herbert here, like Wells' real first name.[[/note]]

** Even in 1966 the fashions don't seem to be too far removed from 1960 or have a somewhat [[TheFifties Fifties]] look... which considering what we know about [[TheSixties how Sixties fashion progressed]] is pretty hilarious.

* ReunionShow: In 1993, [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300555/ a documentary]] was made about the film. While most of the documentary focused on the director George Pal and on the making of the movie props, there was a 15 minute segment where Rod Taylor and Alan Young reprise their roles as George and Filby. The action in the segment took place in George's house and--from George's point of view-- 30 years after the events of the original story. George has come back to 1916 to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong try to prevent Filby from being killed in World War I]]. The documentary is included in some DVD versions of the movie.

* ToTheFutureAndBeyond: The protagonists visits the "future" years of 1917, 1940 and [[NextSundayAD 1966]] before stopping in 802,701. At the end of the movie he starts traveling farther into the future by mistake, but he corrects himself and gets back to his own time.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Played Straight with regards to how Weena is portrayed in most promotional material. Gets Zig Zagged in the actual film; Weena seems to wear sandals as regularly as any other Eloi (subject to the qualification below), but the camera panning down to her feet when [[spoiler:she gets dragged into the bushes by a Morlock]] shows that she wasn't wearing them at that particular point, and the wide shots afterward don't show any loose sandals lying around that would suggest she either took them off herself or had them [[LosingAShoeInTheStruggle knocked off her feet]] during the altercation.
** The Eloi in general seem to be a Downplayed example, with just about all of them wearing sandals as opposed to being completely barefoot. However, the sandals being particularly revealing and form-fitting in their design, combined with the straps blending in quite easily with the Eloi's feet, means that their presence is not readily noticeable (if at all); combine this with the promotional material mentioned earlier and one could well argue that the Eloi are meant to be barefoot in-universe, with [[WatsonianVersusDoylist the sandals simply being a way of achieving the effect while allowing the actors and actresses to remain shod]].

* CrapsaccharineWorld: George initially sees the Eloi and their society as a natural paradise...until he finds their too docile to want to rescue one of their own from drowning. And that's even getting into the Morlocks who hide underground until it gets dark...

* RageBreakingPoint: George is exasperated with the infantile and clueless nature of the Eloi. But when he discovers their records have crumbled into dust, he explodes into a furious tirade and declares his desire to go back to his own time with real men. He does later regret his outburst.
* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime: The Time Traveler goes forward in time at the speed of thousands of years every second, yet he can still see the wall behind him being built, block by block. Travelling this fast, he should barely be able to see any building ''last'', considering the lifespan of most structures humanity built.

-->'''Talking ring:''' The war between East and West, which is now in its three hundred and twenty sixth year...*

* ApocalypticLog: The "talking rings", which dictate news broadcasts when spun upon a dais. The two heard in the film relay information about a war, and the separation of the Eloi and the Morlocks to the Time Traveler.

** Even in 1966 the fashions don't seem to be too far removed from 1960 or have a somewhat [[TheFifties Fifties]] look... which considering what we know about [[TheSixties how Sixties fashion progressed]] is almost HilariousInHindsight.