The Machine Stops Pt 1 (Out of the Unknown S02E01)

[365275]

One thing which doesn't seem so prescient: the son wanting his mother to visit him - rather than the other way around...!

[borgduck]

Do I see a premonition, here?

[deanpickersgill]

THANK YOU for capturing this, I have chilling memories of watching this as a child, and watching it again still chills me. Well done for posting!

[MichaelAuthorAllAges]

Love EM Forster and Out of the Unknown. Looking forward to watching this!

[rosebudfr]

Can't believe i've found this, many thanks!

[twiggirl37]

This classic captures how we are so rush for time and makes you wonder what is important? What are we rushing to: I also found relevant to our world the that the human function in the story was only to generate ideas. Anything visceral and emotional was scorned as crude. Today, idea generation is America's biggest resource, now that we have outsourced production. The Lecturer’s intellectual argument that direct experience is undesirable, smacks of... more, runchica [dot] [com] [slash] blog.

[PuNkOfNiCe]

Pneumatic post! Love it. 

[StoneDalways]

the future of facebook

[valtrepkos]

This is a great film.

Michael Gothard's performance is so poignant it hurts.

Is there any way I can get a complete copy of the film?

[beronproducciones]

muy interesante! si pueden conseguir toda la peli subtitulada estaria de mas

y pasen en link esta peli es basada de una novela "the machine stops" de E.M. Forster escrita en 1908 es una distopia donde describe un mundo muy parecido

al nuestro...

[snhbuk]

I'm sure of those sound effects appear in the Doctor Who story "The Krotons"

[borgduck]

@snhbuk Maybe they should be made "companions of the Krotons", or better yet, just sue!

[librathene]

Excellent, a minor classic to rank alongside The War Game and Year of the Sex Olympics. Many thanks for posting this.

[032gavmal]

Great piece of BBC (and SF) history. Many thanks for posting this!

[lilAtid]

lol

like tis story