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"History is a race between education and catastrophe." -- H. G. Wells
By driftglass — May 28, 2025

On this day in 1960, film patrons in Milan, Italy got an advanced screening of one of my favorite SF classics, "The Time Machine", directed by George Pal with a script by David Duncan adapted from the H.G. Wells' 1865 novel. The film starred Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young, and, in the Chicagoland area, was in the Family Classics rotation for years.

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