Time Travelers

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1964 moving-picture show by Ib Melchior

The Time Travelers
Theatrical release affiche by Reynold Brown
Directed by	Ib Melchior
Screenplay past	Ib Melchior
Story by	Ib Melchior David L. Hewitt
Produced past	Bill Redlin Samuel Z. Arkoff
Starring	Preston Foster Philip Carey Merry Anders John Hoyt
Cinematography	Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by	Hal Dennis
Music by	Richard LaSalle
Production companies	American International Pictures Dobil Productions Inc.
Distributed past	American International Pictures
Release appointment	October 29, 1964 (1964-10-29)
Running fourth dimension	82 minutes
Country	United states
Language	English
Upkeep	$250,000 (estimated)^[1]

The Time Travelers (also known every bit Time Trap ) is a 1964 scientific discipline fiction film directed by Ib Melchior and starring Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, Steve Franken, and John Hoyt. (Delores Wells, Playboy'south Miss June 1960, has a scrap part, as does superfan Forrest J. Ackerman.) The picture show inspired the 1966 Idiot box series The Time Tunnel, as well as the 1967 remake Journey to the Eye of Time. The plot involves a group of scientists who find that due to an electrical overload their time-viewing screen suddenly allows them to travel through time. American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with Atragon.

Plot [edit]

Scientists Dr. Erik von Steiner (Preston Foster), Dr. Steve Connors (Philip Carey), and Carol White (Merry Anders) are testing their time-viewing device, drawing enormous amounts of ability. Danny McKee (Steve Franken), a technician from the ability plant, has been sent to tell them to shut down their experiment. During the examination, odd shadows quickly cross the room immediately earlier the screen shows a stark, arid landscape. Danny discovers the screen has go a portal and steps through.

Inasmuch as the setting is becoming unstable, the others enter the portal to rescue him. The portal disappears, stranding them. Pursued past hostile primitives they seek refuge in a cave, which they observe leads to an hole-and-corner urban center – all that is left of civilization in a future devastated by nuclear war.

The twelvemonth is A.D. 2071. City leader Dr. Varno (John Hoyt) explains that World is unable to support life, and that the residents, along with their androids, are aimlessly working on a spacecraft which will have them to a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. The four time travelers, told they may non join that space voyage, are even so allowed to work on recreating their time portal to return to their own fourth dimension. Earlier the residents can lift off, the degenerate mutant humans pause in, destroy the ship, and encroach on the city proper.

Dr. Varno determines that now the simply hope is the time portal, so he commits the city's remaining resources to help von Steiner, Connors, White, and McKee rebuild the fourth dimension portal. They feverishly piece of work every bit the mutants continue their invasion. Forth with a few people from the hereafter, the four travelers escape back to the nowadays just alee of the mutants, leaving a rear guard of androids. 1 person throws an object back through the portal which amercement the equipment on the other side and shuts downward the portal.

The survivors and their futuristic companions return to the lab, only they brand a strange discovery. Their past selves are still in the lab, nevertheless to pass through the portal, but they appear frozen. The travelers then realize that they experiencing time at an accelerated rate; the residue of the world, including their by selves, is moving in extremely tedious motion. Their only selection is to travel to the date the portal had briefly been gear up to earlier beingness more lastingly gear up to A.D. 2071, a engagement over 100,000 years in the future, but the screen is, as before, night; what lies ahead is unknown. They quickly cross the room, casting the shadows which had had been seen before.

When the last one goes through, the screen flashes on briefly and shows the travelers walking in a clearing with trees and grass; the surface of the Earth habitable again they begin to build a hereafter in that location. The film and then shows their past selves moving at normal speed once again, repeating their actions at ever accelerating rate to a resounding musical score; the sequence of events of the entire picture show chop-chop cycles, repeating with ever briefer and fewer clips, leaving the viewer in a time-loop until it abruptly ends without farther explanation with a shot of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Cast [edit]

Production [edit]

Time Trap product began place in 1963 nether the working title Time Trap. Director Melchior was unable to secure an adequate budget to fully exploit the potential of the story line. His work, however, remains notable in that later critics and later viewers regard the production values as secondary and the film equally a solid B-film. "In spite of the low budget, this withal looks pretty skilful thanks to intelligent use of the resource available. The portal the scientists create, as Danny discovers, is more than a mere window on the coming years, because they can actually walk through it and pass through the decades to be in the future."^[2] Fifty-fifty number of well known magic tricks are used as special effects, for example.

Cameos and Bit Parts [edit]

At 44 minutes into the flick Forrest J Ackerman appears briefly in a scene depicting several technicians. Ackerman'southward only line in the film is "Don't worry. I'thousand keeping our spacemen happy. Getting things squared away". The joke is a self-referential sight gag; his character is working on a device that turns a round frame into a foursquare frame. At the time, Ackerman was editing a science-fiction mag titled Spacemen. The Time Travelers was heavily promoted in his magazine on the basis of Ackerman'due south cameo advent in the pic.

Delores Wells' and Steve Franken's characters Reena and Danny McKee develop a romance, and furthermore Reena "sunbathes" with several other female characters (an early example of fan service) in a demonstration of the sexual mores of The Futurity.

Reception [edit]

The Time Travelers was a B film, evident by its meagre product values, although both the plot and actors were singled out for mention by critics. Leonard Maltin considered the moving-picture show "non bad with a downbeat catastrophe, ane of the offset American films photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond".^[3] ^{[N 1]} Information technology was lampooned decades subsequently in the Netflix revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Come across as well [edit]

List of American films of 1964
List of apocalyptic films
List of films featuring time loops

Notes [edit]

^ In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild placed Vilmos Zsigmond amongst the x most influential cinematographers in history.^[four]

References [edit]

^ The Time Travelers at IMDb.
^ Clark, Graham. "The Time Travelers." The Spinning Paradigm. Retrieved: October 29, 2014.
^ Maltin, Leonard. Leonard Maltin's Picture Guide 2009. New York: New American Library, 2009 (originally published as TV Movies, then Leonard Maltin'south Motion picture & Video Guide), Get-go edition 1969, published annually since 1988. ISBN 978-0-451-22468-2. p. 1442.
^ "Top ten Most Influential Cinematographers Voted on by Camera Guild". TheFreeLibrary.com, October 16, 2003. Retrieved: January 28, 2011.