Time Tunnel was a pretty boring Irwin Allen TV series in the '60s where the protagonists go back in time to key moments in history--like, right before John Wilkes Booth is about the assassinate Lincoln--and inevitably face the same paradoxes and moral dilemmas week after the week. But what a set! The concentric rings pulsed while the two time dudes ran through the tunnel. Sometimes there were narrow escapes, like, they had to get out of the tunnel fast, before the universe exploded. [/Spicoli]
I remember that I really wanted to like it as a kid, because I thought that time-tunnel looked so cool, but it was always too boring (like you said) for me to really get into.
A police box isn't as flashy but it really is a better time machine.
i saw a piece by an artist named Michael Oatman, in which he edited together all of the time-tunnel sequences from every time travel movie - back to the future, contact, i'm blanking on the names of the movies but some were newer and high-production and some were like space with clocks and things slowly floating by. it was set in a crack in the wall.
That sounds good. This one is very much of its period--reflecting the influence of Bridget Riley, Kenneth Noland, black light posters... The "Austin Powers time tunnel."
I may have watched a few. Not so much for the sintilating plots, but for the fantasy of the concept. I also experienced early techno lust. I still want a military grade equipment rack.
I believe the tunnel was at its full depth for only part of the production run. I recall very restricted camera angle to mask the backdrop. Austin Powers took this to it's logical conclusion.
|
Time Tunnel was a pretty boring Irwin Allen TV series in the '60s where the protagonists go back in time to key moments in history--like, right before John Wilkes Booth is about the assassinate Lincoln--and inevitably face the same paradoxes and moral dilemmas week after the week. But what a set! The concentric rings pulsed while the two time dudes ran through the tunnel. Sometimes there were narrow escapes, like, they had to get out of the tunnel fast, before the universe exploded. [/Spicoli]
- tom moody 5-09-2006 1:04 pm
I remember that I really wanted to like it as a kid, because I thought that time-tunnel looked so cool, but it was always too boring (like you said) for me to really get into.
- Thor Johnson (guest) 5-09-2006 5:56 pm
A police box isn't as flashy but it really is a better time machine.
- paul (guest) 5-09-2006 8:23 pm
i saw a piece by an artist named Michael Oatman, in which he edited together all of the time-tunnel sequences from every time travel movie - back to the future, contact, i'm blanking on the names of the movies but some were newer and high-production and some were like space with clocks and things slowly floating by. it was set in a crack in the wall.
- anonymous (guest) 5-11-2006 2:42 am
That sounds good. This one is very much of its period--reflecting the influence of Bridget Riley, Kenneth Noland, black light posters... The "Austin Powers time tunnel."
- tom moody 5-11-2006 7:35 am
I may have watched a few. Not so much for the sintilating plots, but for the fantasy of the concept. I also experienced early techno lust. I still want a military grade equipment rack.
I believe the tunnel was at its full depth for only part of the production run. I recall very restricted camera angle to mask the backdrop. Austin Powers took this to it's logical conclusion.
- mark 5-11-2006 8:18 am