Time Machine (1960) Flat Screen TV appearance

[websuspect]

what you guys are missing is that the Morlocks, the elite ruling class are living in their underground cities and feeding on the lower class. AKA the eloi, who are beautiful creatures unable to think for themselves living up above. WHat there talking about is elite class warfare. The writer had aspergers and he understood all these sytems well.

[Kallistos1]

@websuspect

Er, the Morlocks were the descendants of the proletarian workers in the original novel, and maintained the machines that kept the Eloi, the apathetic descendants of the rich capitalists who did not work, alive. Of course, the Morlocks then ate the Eloi...

Its the opposite of elite class warfare, more like a commentary on the pointless leisure life of the rich at the expense of the poor exiled from the sun...who then get their revenge. Ha!

[PriusRider]

ur so funny....

Make videos about the (world) conspiracy about everything.

YOu name it! :)

[Cognetto]

That funny..They had a real working one in Back to the Future 2 in Mc fly's living room somewhere above the fire place.

[MarineAqua45]

For a near future scene,set six years after when,this film was released-It can get away with looking like 1966,except for the silly atomic satelites zeroing-in&the mono-rail(looking like the DLR,as Britain had no plans to introduce that then&the plasma-screens:-)Clothing etc are alright for the period&so are the radiaton-suits worn by the ARP wardens(Air-raid Precaution:-)The Underground subway signs,are fine for that time,anyway.

[LARiots1992]

That is amazing!

Sadly, the rest of the world would never see this because the entire city was bombed and then drowned in radioactive oatmeal.

[Ezza190]

the dreaded nuclear war sequence......

[robc1952]

it reads latest tubless tv...

[iscrapman]

Is this a dvd or vhs ?

I loved this movie !

[EgaoNoGenki]

Wow. This movie's prediction about flat screen TVs were only about 35 years off!

[unclebobunclebob]

Great observation

[oscarmacaroni]

the 1st flat screen i saw was at circuit city.... $ 14,999.99 i believe it was 32 in.

[lgman83]

When was this?

[oscarmacaroni]

@lgman83 it was in 1996 or 1997.

[ps3scott]

LCD wasnt made and used untill 1968 they were very simple like a digital watch.not even nasa had plasmas or flat screan tv's.they just didnt have the tech to keep one working

[ph174699]

neat observation!

[hankaaron1961]

The first Plasma display was invented in the 1930's- almost 30 years before this movie. The filmmakers did their research, but it's not like this did not exsist before.

[rodc2006]

Plasma displays circa 1930!, CRTs maybe.

I believe the first plasma monitor was prototyped in the mid 60's

[hankaaron1961]

The first Plasma prototypes were in the 30's. CRTs go back to about 1870 with the Crookes Tube which were called Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), because they though one end of the tube (the cathode) emitted rays.

[rodc2006]

.Ok, Maybe a few families were lounging around watching their wide screen plasma displays in the 30's (!) but most of us had to wait till the the early 2000's just to see one.

..which is kind of the point of the video :-)

[snake520]

@rodc2006

1st plasma display was invented in 1964, and not in the 30s.

[Snuffomatica]

Can you cite a source for this hankaaron? I always believed that plasmas were first invented in 1964 by Donald Bitzer.

[andreaprodan]

Fascinating! But only a few moments later, the film reveals a far more EPIC prediction of the future... domination from SPACE by a all´-powerfull nation with laser cannons.

Stay posted for more HG Wells predictions..

[baraboosquirrel]

One of the best movies ever!

[slizzler1]

who would? lol

[muscledstallion]

Nice one! Mind you Plasma is power hungry and pretty crap ultimately.

[dentonscheibal3]

That's why i'd go with LCD!

because LCD TV's are more efficient!

[slizzler1]

flat screen tvs also showed up in the original star trek series.

[mrdean3]

... and in Back to the Future II.

[slizzler1]

yes -that too

[clydelaz]

Flat screen TV in 2001 a space odyssey movie made in 1968

[slizzler1]

yes- that one too

[Kallistos1]

@slizzler1

2001 A Space Odyssey is full of flat screens.

In fact, in a couple of places the crew of the Discovery are watching TV broadcasts from Earth while eating dinner on what looks like an iPad.

[slizzler1]

@Kallistos1

yes- great movie!

[Zoomer30]

Japan had HD about 25 years ago, just all the penny pinching broadcasters in the US that stopped it from coming here till now.

[slizzler1]

yes- penny pinching insipid US car company CEOs stopped the 'right cars' from being developed too.

[dellepius]

hey, how do you see this? Nice background  your channel have, congratulations!

[lauriebooth]

Thanks for the posting, brill film, great bit of spotting. I wonder who thought of putting the tv in that shop window.

[armin3773]

I watched that movie at least a dozen time. Never saw that detail, awesome observation! Thank you!

[desinfector]

I dont think its not a big deal to predict

things like that. Even at that time (1960).

Its something like predicting today a TV that can be put on a wall like Wallpaper.

[armin3773]

Indeed, the plasma screen was invented in 1964! According to Wiki monochrome (black/orange).

[isokessu]

actually it's already possible to make tv what can put on a wall like wallpaper. with "electronic-paper" screen and it can be even touchscreen. but those aren't in shops yet but maybe after 5-10 years they will be

[fernfeyes]

Farenheit 451 also predicted flat wall screen t.v.'s in that movie and that people would be popping pills for every little thing..they also predicted that firemen would start fires instead of stop them (see your local news.)

[genxr65]

If you've ever watched "Back to the Future 2" (1989) there is a flat panel TV in the scene where Marty goes to his home in the future in 2015.

The one I like best is the Star Trek communicator from the original series. It looks just like a cell phone.

[scotpens]

Except that today's cellphones are actually smaller than the original Star Trek communicators!

[Josszen]

rodc2006 congr, your eyes it's like a lynx lool

This movies it's on my top 5 favorite ever!

Peoples now days become like the Eloi, because everybody are scare to say their opinion!

That what i found with that movie !

[WKRPinCINN]

good catch on that. imagine what a "tubless tv set" was back in the early 60's. to us, it might be a "phone without wires" a few years back.

[jigbuilda]

I love this movie, its kinda funny we recognise things like this once they become commonplace. Well spotted!

[ChomuSclavus]

Those cars appear to be no newer than 7 years old by that year. We've all seen cars made in 1966, have we? We know what they look like, right? Why weren't they there?

[rodc2006]

This always bugged me to as these cars

look like there from the fifties, but who's to say the cars parked there, at that moment where just older models.

In fact in 1966 cars from the 40's and 30's would have still getting around in large numbers.

[EvileSeedNaruto]

in a lot of pictures and movies i saw a lot of people with cars of that decade. cars tended to wear out quicker back then.

[discosuitDan]

maybe the bodies of the cars but definately not the engines! back then they were built to last..Nowaday cars are Built to service

[scotpens]

The scene is supposed to take place in 1966, but the movie was made in 1960, and the cars are typical of that time. The black car on the left looks like an Austin Healy. On the right side of the screen, there's a 1958-1960 Thunderbird, and another American-looking car just behind it -- although this is supposed to be London! American cars were very rare in Britain then.

[Ba3dadBoy]

Yea I think they were wishing for something haha. But damn who the hell pays attention to something like a tv in the background! Good spotting

[MarineAqua45]

@ChomuSclavus Because 1966 model cars didn't exist in 1960,when the film was made.1950s cars would have been plentiful in 1960s London,anyway.Just like 2003 model cars are,in 2010.

[TheRebel2007]

The Time Traveler must have "jumped the track" and been on a paralel world, an alternate 1966. Nobody was going to get to enjoy those " latest tubeless TV's" in about thirty seconds or so.........

[ChomuSclavus]

Or the traveler warned society of the future apocalypse soon after he returned, thus preventing this nuclear exchange from ever happening.

[ericinla]

rodc2006, nice eye. I've seen this movie many times and never noticed the flat panel t.v. before. Thanks

[edwierd256]

wow..that's pretty cool

i love this movie though..it might sound kinda stupid but when i was a kid, i used to dream of living with the eloi and kicking the morlocks' asses!!!!!

[edwierd256]

wow..that's pretty cool

i love this movie though..it might sound kinda stupid but when i was a kid, i used to dream of living with the eloi and kicking the morlocks' asses!!!!!

[Yourdeadmeat69]

In the Smithsonian, a 1947 version of a television, in which the picture was reflected off a mirror onto a sheet of glass, was exhibited. It looked like a rear projection box we all know, but for the open glass mirror and flat panal suspended above it, looked otherworldly. The picture needed a darkened room, but it floated in front of you.

I wonder what happened to its inventor.

Bottom line, there is nothing new under the sun.

I wonder what happened to its inventor.

[FreakBeastie]

Some people have a stunning breadth off vision that seems to verge on the prophetic.

Aldous Huxley said (in the 1930's) that in the future, all most people would talk about would be cordless phones. He was making a point on how daft and boring people choose to be, but he hit the nail on the head, people are like that, yet how did he know about the cordless phones? As I say, he used a form of applied logic to determine what the future holds.

[darkdave25]

Pretty freaky! I love the "spinning discs" in the film too - the ones that play audio commentary. Mr.Wells was one clever doooooood

[scotpens]

The "talking rings" were an invention of the screenwriter, and weren't in the novel. H.G. Wells' book was a parable of class differences; the Eloi and Morlocks were the distant descendants of the aristocrats and the working class, and had lived apart for so long they had evolved into separate species. The movie threw out Wells' social philosophy and made the two races descendants of atomic war survivors, some of whom remained on the surface, while others chose to move underground.

[scotpens]

(continued from previous post)

Instead of Wells' socio-political allegory, the movie emphasized a simpler message about oppressed people finding the courage to rise and overthrow their tyrants -- an idea that must certainly have had personal meaning for director George Pal, himself a refugee from Nazi-occupied Europe.

[Revigoe7]

hummmmmmmmmmmm

[sharktats28]

thats pretty cool, i love this movie and never noticed that

[legacy317]

Can't be a coincidence. It just can't.

[sdold]

Just coincidence. It's like imagining a computer with no hard drive, only really high-speed non-volatile RAM. It's such a good idea that it has to become commonplace sooner or later. It was only a matter of time before TVs became flat, because it was such a pain in ass having all that depth.

[Tazzman]

When I see stuff like this, it makes me wonder if someone out there knew something!

[Donutmangreen]

nah just a coincidence

[RETROGEMS]

Hmmmmm.....:)

[typecastaaron3]

@Tazzman oh man yeah possibly someone somewhere knew something thats amazing to think that someone actually knew info imagine a human knowing info

[jma128]

They took a good guess. In one episode of Dragon Ball Z, the character Hercule is sitting on a couch watching a wall-mounted widescreen flat-panel TV. The thing is, is that that episode came out in '93, 5 years before the first HDTV.

[vidlova473]

It was made in Japan and they had the first HDTV broadcasts in 1989 or it could be just a normal tv put in a hole in the wall

[SgtMovieMaker]

that very interesting

[MiraiNoMikey]

thanks for putting this up my dad used to watch it on AMC back in the day they don't show it anymore. i want to see this movie and alfred hitchcock's the birds...

[Tazzman]

Those are two very good movies to see! In high school I did two book reports on The Time Machine!

[rwundrock]

Watch the 1966 movie "Fahrenheit 451." They show one woman watching instructions on what looks like a 42" wall-mounted plasma. It looks just like the Sony screen I have hanging on my wall.

[Toto77777]

now thats a real glance at the future :)

[isokessu]

how did they knew (on year 1960) that the in future flat screen in tv will be invent

[tamcat125]

It is on turner classic movies tonight at 10:00 pm

[azteckheart]

yo ....dont you have the whole movie??? i would like to wacth it...or if you have some information about whare i can get it , please send me a message ...thanks a lot

[mcmpika]

I thinks its 1960s movie called "the time machine" look at the google and type "time machine 1966"