HG Wells and the Cinema as Time Machine
- Dates
- Friday 23 September 2016
- Venue
- The Ambassadors Cinemas
- Admission
- From £6
Talk by Dr. Keith Williams - University of Dundee Senior Lecturer in English
HG Wells and the Cinema as Time Machine: 23 September
Followed by a screening of The Time Machine (2002 version)
The Time Machine (1895), H.G. Wells’ most famous scientific romance novel, anticipates cinema as a vision machine for virtual journeying through space and time. Keith explores the connection between this work of fiction and early cinema through the patent for a Time Machine ‘simulator’, which Wells devised with R.W. Paul, one of Britain’s first filmmakers, but also how the cinematic qualities of the novel have been realised on screen.
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