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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About Time Travel on a Limited Scale
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:10:41 -0500
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On 13/06/2025 10.38, Paul S Person wrote:

(On George Pal's film of _The Time Machine)

> The problem for me here isn't that they changed the book, the problem
> is that the changes are modern-day (well, "modern" when the film was
> made) concerns.
> 
> Maltin, who likes the film, calls it a "cartoon version" of the book.

He likes it and that's what he says about it? Wow! Talk about praising by
faint damns!

It fits, though, because the _Classic Comics_ version of _The Time Machine_,
which was my first exposure to it, follows the film. (Assuming that a
memory of sixty years back is accurate, anyway.)

-- 
Michael F. Stemper
This sentence no verb.