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COPYRIGHT 2005 Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
IN DIRECTOR WILLIAM CAMERON MENZIES'S FILM THINGS TO COME (1936), which was based on a terrible "novel" (and I use the term generously) by H. G. Wells entitled The Shape of Things to Come, the contemporary viewer is offered a real treat at seeing how the future was regarded back in the mid-1930s. Of course, in 1936, the film-makers of Things to Come envisioned a future thought to be radical, modernistic, and utopian in its celebration of technology. Today, the past's future as depicted in Menzies's film seems quaint, naive, and forever locked in time and place in a historical celluloid fantasy that never made it past the production design of the movie and into actual existence.
But viewing 1936's Things to Come in 2004 is fascinating, nonetheless, and what makes it fascinating for film...
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