Things to Come (also known as Shape of Things to Come and in promotional material as H. G. Wells’ Things to Come) is a 1936 British science fiction film produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells. The film stars Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart, Derrick De Marney, and Ann Todd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_to_Come
Interesting read about the movie with stills:
Fascinating take on the future from UK in the 30s. Can’t wait to watch this all the way through.
I skipped over some bits with the war and the mining/industry, but other than that it’s neat. I could tell it was H.G. Wells, at least I got that (OG) Time Machine vibe from the split societies.
I think the most interesting bit was the mention of space. Also a few ideas that I’m not sure if were intentional commentary or
just coincidence/sign-of-the-times.
WOtW’s aggressive extraction of natural resources
and the one-sided nature of broadcast (despite the guy giving a nice speech in a private discussion)
EDIT: Also forgot to say it makes me wonder about colorizing a movie (though I probably would take a more stylized approach). Maybe with EBsynth, but even then I think I’d need some tool to pick out the foundation of needed keyframes. That, and the cart-and-horse of watching said movie, unless it’s such a good movie that it has high replay value.
That’s how I watched it too. A lot of the audio is shrill. But yeah, I found the story mostly interesting and I could see a well-written remake doing really well.
