The Time Machine (1960)
Event films were what Hollywood produced before the modern blockbuster cycle set in. While many movies - even A-list ones - were black and white dramas, westerns and war pictures, there would be those epics that would get the full studio backing. The best ones have stood the test of time, and most of them are major Stanley Kubrick or David Lean productions spanning hours of story and beautiful locations. Science fiction movies, like the literature that inspired them, seldom received the same treatment. There would occasionally be a major studio attempt like This Island Earth or Forbidden Planet that would receive a bit more funding than the normal Saturday matinee fare, but in the mind of most critics science fiction was for children. That is perhaps why George Pal was able to produce some of the most memorable science fiction and fantasy films of the 1950s and 1960s. He began making children's shorts, but often with complex animation that lent well to special effects heavy fi