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Presented
here is the original 1960 8x10 color set of stills
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| The half-man, half-ape creatures of 800,000 years in the future, depicted in "The Time Machine," George Pal's imaginative new color production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, gave MGM's make-up head, William Tuttle, the greatest challenge of his 25 years in Hollywood. The actors portraying these people, called the Morlocks, required two-and-a-half hours daily in the studio's make-up department before going before the cameras. |
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Pressbook of The Time Machine Pressbooks are interesting in that they show what was available to the theater owners to promote the film for their theater. In the case of The Time Machine the 1960 pressbook comprised 20 pages of ads, articles, posters, heralds, and other promotional tie-ins to the film. The copy on page one reads: A PROMOTION GOLD-MINE! 1— TERRIFIC TICKET-SELLING TV-TRAILERS! 2— GIANT SENSATION-PACKED HERALD! 3— ADS DRAMATIZE SCIENCE-FICTION WONDERS! 4— BIG EYE-STOPPING LOBBY STANDEE! 5—SIZZLING PROMOTION! UNIQUE SHOMANSHIP! |
| There will be no clothes problem for girls of the future. Yvette Mimieux, who portrays a girl of 800,000 A.D. in "The Time Machine," George Pal's imaginative new color production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on H.G. Wells' novel has the smallest wardrobe ever devised for an MGM film. It consists of one velvet tunic and one wreath of flowers! |
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This illustration was
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Click here to get a large version you can printout or download. Maybe we should have a coloring contest? |
The accompaning caption read as follows: Coloring Contest Mat This exciting coloring contest mat, available in 2- and 3- column sizes, illustrates all of the drama and thrills of The Time Machine. It may be used in a number of ways as an effective selling aid: 1. Plant with local newspapers for use as a coloring contest. Offer guest tickets to the winners and display winning entries in your lobby. 2. Use as a herald. 3. blow-up this mat and use as a display piece in your lobby or out front. 4. Arrange to use it in supermarkets as a bag stuffer. |
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| Here is the case of a man who literally had time on his hands. One sequence of "The Time Machine," George Pal's imaginative new color production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, based on H.G. Wells' novel, featured 50 clocks which required to strike simultaneously. It was prop man Don Vanni's job to slow down the fast ones and speed up the slow ones. two "takes" did the trick. |
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