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George Pal will be most remembered for The Time Machine
It was 1959 and I was 9 when I witnessed the now classic Time Machine by George Pal unfold on the movie screen. That was some memory for a kid - but from then on I was hooked on this movie and the works of George Pal. Who could forget that marvelous Victorian era of clocks and carriages of turn of the century London. That incredible Time Machine design by George Pal and Wah Chang. This machine really looked like it could do fantastic things! I was so impressed by the way Pal took us on his adapation of the H.G. Wells journey in ways that were so believable and heartfelt that over time seems to have out distanced the original source material. The wonderful commaderie between Filby (Alan Young) and The Time Traveller (Rod Taylor), that terrific little Time Machine miniature, the "Talking Rings" (voiced by Paul Frees), the mannequin clothes changing in the shop window, the time lapse stop motion animation photography, the beautiful Eloi Weena (Yvette Mimieux), the three books and those frightening cannibilistic Morlocks. And of course the inspired and magnificent Russell Garcia musical score - certainly one of the best ever written for a motion picture! Who could ever forget all it back in 1959 or even better now in 2000! Some 40 years after the original movie was released The Time Machine on DVD has stood the test of time and viewer interest has not abated one single iota. Even a now a new Dreamworks Warner Bros. remake is in production for a 2001 release by none other than Steven Spielberg (admitted to be inspired by George Pal in his formative years). But we must all remember it all started with a little Hungarian genious named George Pal. His films were big films with big ideas and authentic good stories grounded in real emotion, effects that enhanced the story not envelope it and his mesages were moving sociological what if studies - as The Time Machine so perfectly examples. Some of Pal's stories were fanciful - even far-fetched - but still believable, emotional. memorable and enigmatic. The hopeful optismism of Pal's message in The Time Machine that even at the ends of time man will endure is prevalent in many of his films. Pal should never be forgotten and The Time Machine is a wonderful way to remember him. Incidentally, to get a terrific overview of The Time Machine and George Pal - don't forget to get your hands on the new director's cut DVD of "The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal" by director Arnold Leibovit (who by the way is Executive Producing the remake of The Time Machine with Dreamworks). Leibovit's love letter film tribute to George Pal contains a stable of stars like Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Gene Roddenberry, Ray Bradbury and countless others. A treat for anyone interested in "The Time Machine" and all of the George Pal films. We think the sequence of The Time Machine is one of the best done! The expanded edition has two hours of new material. Check it out.

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From 1899 to 802,701 AD The "Timeless" Classic
There are a lot of reviews about this great picture and how it influenced an entire generation. All of it is true! For some reason this film ties into the imagination and fills you with wonder. We can thank Mr. Wells for creating the story, but we really owe it to George Pal, Wah Chang and Gene Warren for translating the book into a miracle of romantic adventure. The real draw of course is "The Time Machine" prop. Never in the history of film has a prop been more imitated and desired. The special effects received an Academy Award and it was well deserved. All of the elements of Victorian London in winter, cozy parlors surrounded with friends gathered for dinner, "tea table" chat over the 4th dimension and the recollection of an experiment in time travel utilizing a flashback technique are what makes this film so enchanting. When Rod Taylor finally begins a slow initial journey we see the sky in motion in day and night sequences that are breathtaking in astronomic splendor. As the flowered garden and fruit trees go through their seasonal cycles in rapid progression you cannot help but be drawn into the wonder of creation and the genius of invention! The screenwriters then play with your imagination as we see our traveler stop at different events in our 20th century past and a "cold war" interpretation of the decade in which it was filmed when he stops in the "future" on August 18th, 1966 to witness a nuclear holocaust. From here we are quickly transported to the focal point of the Wells story to a future society of Eloi and Morlock culture. The care that went into this DVD should not be understated. It is a highly polished film that restores 20/20 vision to the frames so that we can see all of the colorful beauty that was originally there. Once again, we can SEE the atomic satellite zeroing in, the clear sky above the Eloi "cafeteria" and the smoking machinery of the Morlock caverns. When our traveler returns to 1899 and presents the flower to Filby that was given to him by Weena you will agree that "that flower could not have possibly bloomed in the winter time" and in the holding of that flower you will realize that this is a magic moment in film that will be with you forever and as Mrs. Watchit gradually turns off the lights in our view from the snowy evening outside you will think about the three books you would have taken and agree that having seen this film you will never be the same again, because you are in love with a romantic idea, TIME TRAVEL.

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Don't let it fool you
I gave it 5 stars just for the movie, but this edition deserves 3, cause you see the audio cd shown on the picture won't be inside the package. I returned it, and got myself the standard version, cause I bought this edition most for the cd. The picture is from an initial pressing of this edition and is no longer available, you'll get all the stuff you see, but no cd. I just thought you'd better know it.