From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   TCM is running a theme of The Victorian Age in the Movies, Thursday, they go   
   to science fiction.   
      
   Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)   
   Around the World in 80 Days (1956)   
   First Men in the Moon (1964)   
   The Time Machine (1960)   
   Doctor Doolittle (1967)   
      
   Characters such as Jekyll, Doolittle, Dracula, or Holmes can be and have been   
   set in contemporary or period tales.  When Disney decided "20,000 Leagues"   
   would make a good frame to show underwater nature footage, the invention of   
   the submarine could not    
   be a contemporary story.  When Harper Goff decided to use rivets on the   
   Nautilus to evoke alligator skin, he started a trend.  A Verne explosion   
   followed.  Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Journey to   
   the Center of the Earth,    
   Master of the World, Mysterious Island, 5 Weeks in a Balloon, and In Search of   
   the Castaways.   
      
   Wells's The Time Machine didn't need a period setting, but it does add to the   
   charm.  The First Men in the Moon makes the cleverest use of the period   
   setting.   
      
   Oddly, War of the Worlds and Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World are almost   
   always conteporized.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
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