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The text shown on the screen at the end of the film. It states that they were married, and describes some of the “predictions” that Wells made that came true.

Obviously no "history" records the marriage of the two fictional characters in the film about the non-existent time machine.

But the fact is that Wells married a woman named Amy Catherine Robbins (who was generally known as either "Jane" or "Catherine" rather than "Amy".) She was a student of his during one of his brief forrays into academe, and they moved in together in 1893, while Wells was still married to his first wife. After his divorce they married in 1895 and had two sons. Wells also had children with two other women during their marriage, though it is hard to tell how much Amy Catherine objected to this. The free-love, proto-feminist heroines of two of his novels are said to have been based on both Catherine Wells and Rebecca West, the journalist and novelist who bore Wells third son, novelist Anthony West. (The other child was a daughter, the result of Wells's scandalous affair with Amber Reeves, a young Fabian just out of college.) Catherine Wells died in 1927.

Obviously the film-makers had a bit of revisionist fun by making their heroine the woman the historical Wells did marry. (And there was a genuine connection between Amy Catherine and The Time Machine. The material that eventually became Wells first successful novel originally appeared as short stories and sketches in several English newspapers and magazines of the late 1880s. But around the time Wells was preparing to move in with Amy, a publisher urged Wells to recast the early pieces as a novel. The book was published with the text that we now know in 1885, the same year the pair married.)

For more on Wells, see this link.

Regards,

Joe

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Does anyone know for certain that the upcoming (09/02/08) release of "Time After Time" will be an anamorphic release? I thought I recalled reading that over at the Digital Bits but I haven't seen any pre-order info on the anamorphic issue. This one's not showing up on DVDTalk or DVDBeaver release calendars.

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The original DVD release is anamorphic - why would this one not be (if there is indeed a new version coming). It's Warners - they certainly don't do non-anamorphic transfers, at least they haven't since the advent of DVD.

Reading through this thread has provided a lot of laughs. The scene never existed anywhere - not in theatrical prints, TV, cable, VHS, laserdisc, or DVD. It's all bad memory or the mind creating something that never existed, just, as someone points out, the thousands of people who stomped their feet and swore there was a "To Be Continued" card in the theatrical prints of Back To The Future - and after Zemeckis came out and stated that these people were all incorrect, they still swore they saw it. How do you explain that? The same way you explain this.

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I'm reminded of all those claims about the "brain" scene being trimmed on the Hannibal DVD.

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The upcoming release is just a re-packaging using atrocious new cover art. I normally upgrade snappers to keepcases, but this new cover is SO bad, I'm going to have to stick with the snapper.

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It IS an atrocious cover.


See?

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I'll wait for the Blu-ray, then.

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A bunch of "Birds of Prey" fans would tell you a different story.

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Billy,

Thanks for the info. Since it didn't state the earlier release as "anamorphic" I wasn't sure about it since I'd never seen it on WS. I'm glad that the studios have improved their cover labeling (stating either "Enhanced for WS" or "Anamorphic" during the last few years vs some of the early DVD releases.

I recently (finally) entered the WS crowd with a 50" Panasonic Plasma set. I can't believe the difference in viewing movies now. Films that I know well look like new. I'd always bought anamorphic releases whenever there was a choice or availibility since I knew the day would come when I'd get that first flat-pnl set. It's funny but one of the reasons that I held out for a while is that I watch a lot of 1.33:1 DVD's and I wasn't sure how the older TV/DVD shows would look on WS sets. After demo'ing some of my TV/DVD's at a local store, I was convinced

As for the upcoming re-release of "Time...", I might be interested if there's any info about a re-mastering. Otherwse, I'll keep the original release.

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Does anyone have info on the re-release 09/02 of "Time after Time"? I haven't seen reviews up yet at DVDTalk or DVDBeaver. I might upgrade if the new release has a better transfer or re-mastered from the original release.

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I threw up a little....



Just to remind everyone about how truly simple and creative the original was...

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...unless the film had an aspect ratio of 1.66:1 such as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange and quite a few others for most of the last decade.

Regards,

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well i just watched this from Universal HD, still no photo at then end.

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I just watched it on HDNet I think and it was shown as 1.78:1. Didn't look right and checked my DVD and yep, catering to the masses again.

Another channel not watched on my TV!!!

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I have it on my hard drive from HDNet and it's in the proper 2.35 aspect ratio.

HDNet always presents movies in their original aspect ratio. Are you sure it wasn't UHD. They always alter aspect ratios, and add commercials sometimes too.

HDNet even showed The Worlds Fastest Indian in it's theatrical 2.35 ratio. While the DVD and Blu-Ray release is 1.85. I would have bought it except for that.

HDNet rules, UHD not so much.

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You're probably right!