History Film / TheTimeMachine1960

* AdaptationalBadass: While nowhere near are powerful as the Morlocks from the 2002 movie, the morlocks are nevertheless considerably tougher here than their novel counterparts.

* 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.

* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Despite the film having a strong anti-war message, it narrowly avoids being a BrokenAesop as George motivations are more about teaching the [[SuicidalPacifism Eloi]] to regain a sense of [[MartialPacifist self-preservation]], rather than actively seek conflict with the Morlocks.

* AdaptationalBadass: While nowhere near are powerful as the morlocks from the 2002 movie, the morlocks are nethertheless considrably tougher here than their novel counterparts.
* AdaptationExpansion: In the book, the traveller doesn't make any stop and goes directly to the very far future without learning about the World Wars (which the 1895 book hadn't anticipated, while the traveller in the film first asumes that WWI is still the continuation the Boer war).

* 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 Morlock's lair in a hypnotic trance.

* FrazettaMan: If you take the fact they evolved from humans in the distant future out of the account, then the morlocks fit this trope to a T.

* AdaptationExpansion: In the book, the traveller doesn't make any stop and goes directly to the very far future without learning about the World Wars (probably because they hadn't happened yet when the book was written).

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Though the Time Traveler is referred to as "George", the machine's date indicator plate clearly reads "Manufactured by H. George Wells" meaning the Time Traveller's actual name is... Creator/HGWells.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9miqKm0aB0 The Time Machine]]'' is a 1960 film adaptation by George Pal of Creator/HGWells' science fiction novel ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''.

There are many changes from the novel, with Wells's socialist critique reimagined as an anti-war parable. After the Time-Traveler, called "George" in this version, demonstrates his invention, most of his colleagues criticize him for inventing something which they consider to have no practical value (''it's a fricking time machine, morons!'') and wonder why a man of his genius isn't [[ArmsDealer inventing weapons]] for Britain to use in UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar like a good patriotic citizen should be. Only David Filby shares George's idealism, though he warns him to destroy the time machine before it destroys him.

* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: The Eloi women love their '50s hair. Weena, whose attitude and interests are akin to a child, even calls attention to it by asking George how the women of his time wear their hair.

'''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9miqKm0aB0 The Time Machine]]''''' is a 1960 film adaptation by George Pal of Creator/HGWells' science fiction novel ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''.

There are many changes from the novel, with Wells's socialist critique reimagined as an anti-war parable. After the Time-Traveler, called "George" in this version, demonstrates his invention, most of his colleagues criticize him for inventing something which they consider to have no practical value (''it's a fricking time machine, morons!'') and wonder why a man of his genius isn't [[ArmsDealer inventing weapons]] for Britain to use in the SecondBoerWar like a good patriotic citizen should be. Only David Filby shares George's idealism, though he warns him to destroy the time machine before it destroys him.

George sets off for the future, stopping to see the effects of WorldWarI, the Blitz of WorldWarII, and finally the nuclear holocaust of WorldWarIII. George's arrival in the year 802701 plays out similarly to the original, though with the Eloi [[EternalEnglish speaking English]] and Weena being PromotedToLoveInterest. The BackStory of the Eloi and the Morlocks is altered, with both being the descendants of people who survived in bunkers during World War III. When the war ended after three centuries, some people chose to remain underground, becoming the Morlocks, while others chose to take their chances on the surface, becoming the Eloi. The Morlocks are, of course, portrayed in the typical 1950s monster movie fashion.

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: In the movie's universe, it turned hot in 1966. Essentially, the movie's whole message is about the Cold War, which now seems especially dated for a movie that travels so far into the future. It must be said, however, that traveling so far into the future does drive home the movie's point that a global nuclear war is something which humanity would still be paying for thousands of years later.

* WorldWarOne: George learns about it from Filby's son, who thinks he's completely out of it.
* WorldWarTwo: George stops in 1940, after seeing his house destroyed by the Blitz.

* ColdWar: In the movie's universe, it turned hot in 1966. Essentially, the movie's whole message is about the Cold War, which now seems especially dated for a movie that travels so far into the future. It must be said, however, that traveling so far into the future does drive home the movie's point that a global nuclear war is something which humanity would still be paying for thousands of years later.

* ActingForTwo: Not only does Creator/AlanYoung play David Filby, but he plays James Filby, both young and old as well.

* CompositeCharacter: In the book, the Time Traveller has a group of friends he tells about the Time Machine, including the unnamed narrator and a young man named Philby. In the film, there's just Filby.

* DawsonCasting: A forty-year-old Creator/AlanYoung playing an eighteen year old James Filby. Also in the ReunionShow, a 70-ish Alan Young plays the fifty-something version of Filby (but the makeup is convincing enough to have him actually look the part.)

** Both examples seem curious in light of the ever-changing mannequin in the store, concerning the changes in by-then-historical fashion.

* DawsonCasting: A forty-year-old Creator/AlanYoung playing an eighteen year old James Filby.

* AdaptationExpansion: In the book, the traveller doesn't make any stop and goes directly to the very far future without learning about the World Wars.

* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Despite the film having a strong anti-war message, it narrowly avoids being a BrokenAesop as George motivations are more about teaching the [[SuicidalPacifism Eloi]] to regain a sense of [[MartialPacifist self-preservation]].

* TrainingThePeacefulVillagers: Making the whole anti-war message something of a BrokenAesop.