Stealing Time | SciFi Time Travel Short Film

When a down-on-his-luck inventor builds a time machine to change the past, he unwittingly sets off a disastrous chain of events.
This short film was made based on the following constraints:
• Cannot take place entirely in one location.
• Someone must say the words "time travel."
• Two characters must have a long-standing rivalry.
• When one character was a kid, he/she used to wish he/she could travel back in time to see real-life dinosaurs.
• One character is a wine lover and is very picky/elitist about their wine.
• One character prefers bubble baths to showers.
• Someone has to say: "I have to go back."
Director: Alex Calleros
Writers: Alex Calleros, Michael Tucker
Starring: Mikie Beatty, Dan Beckner
Producers: Alex Calleros, Ryan McDuffie, Michael Tucker, Adele Watkin
Director of Photography: Michael Tucker
Music: Bryan Ricker
Editor: Alex Calleros
Sound Dept: Daniel Clark, Ryan McDuffie, David Sims, Michael Tucker
Special Effects: Michael Tucker
Camera & Electric: Alex Eldridge
Colorist: David Sims
Additional Actors:
Adele Watkin, Joel Kelley Dauten, Mo Beatty, Sophie Green, Ben Waldorf, Kimberly Bohling
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[@notchmath9642]

I just noticed that the “Twel- Twelve-O-Seven” was because James already knew what time it was, and instinctively said it but realised he had to look at the clock for appearances. Great attention to detail.

[@artiomboyko]

Wow

[@frogwizard5477]

Woah

[@Lilbebee07]

Agreed. Noticed that at the end when he said it again, and had to go back to check if that’s how he said it the first time

[@MeltingTheta]

Yes

[@MIN0RITY-REP0RT]

"What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant."

[@Alex_Eicher]

When do we want it? Yesterday...

[@ImehSmith]

😅🤣👍🏽👍🏽

[@megamind6000]

Travel through time where there is no tomorrow! Ha ha hs

[@dannytourigny9403]

It's complicated!

[@judeattitude1461]

Lmfao dude

[@timmalle8936]

Full detailed Explanation: This is one timeline. We see people exist at the same time temporarily but in the end, only one of each character exist. Prestory: Howard built the time machine and James comes with a fake funding letter to convince Howard from stopping the project and to steal the invention (because Howards is better). Perspective Howard: 11:04 Start of the scene. To show his invention Howard goes into the time machine and becomes Howard#1. 11:59 Girl in Bathtub, Howard#1 shows up and goes slowly back, he reaches the house by 12:07. 12:07 Howard#1 sees the dead Howard#3, James#2 explains that Howard#2 killed Howard#3 and talks him into using the time machine again. Howard#1 becomes Howard#2. 12:02 Ring in Pool, Howard#2 runs back to the house and reaches there by 12:05. 12:05 He comes into the room, asks James (who doesn't know a thing) who will be killed and shoots out of panic at Howard#3. Then he uses the time machine at becomes Howard#3. 12:00 Howard#3 lands on the bed, runs back to his house, realizes his mistake, and gets killed by Howard#2 at 12:05. 12:05 Howard#3 (the final) is sadly dead. Perspective James: 12:04 Start of scene. James sees Howard jump into the time machine. 12:05 Directly after that, Howard#2 runs in, asks who will be killed, shoots Howard#3 out of panic and goes into the time machine again. 12:06 James (thinking that Howard is dead) takes the power source and drives away. 12:07 James#2 stops him and makes him bring the power back and hide behind the time machine. Howard#1 comes in and James#2 convinces him to use the time machine again. 12:08 James goes into the time machine and becomes James#2. 12:03 James#2 runs out of the house to stop James from driving away, he reaches there by 12:06. 12:06 James#2 brings the power source back (James just watches) 12:07 James#2 convinces Howard#1 (who comes running in and sees the dead Howard#3) to use the time machine again (so that he would kill himself) 12:08 James#2 sends James into the time machine. 12:09 James#2 (the final) drives away with the power source. Chronological: 11:59 Howard#1 arrives at bathtub 12:00 Howard#3 arrives at bed 12:02 Howard#2 arrives at pool 12:03 James#2 arrives somewhere. 12:04 James meets Howard at his house. (Howard uses the time machine.) 12:05 James sees Howard#2 kill Howard#3. (Howard#2 uses the time machine.) 12:06 James takes power source and meets James#2, they go back to the house. 12:07 Howard#1 meets James#2. (Howard#1 uses the time machine.) 12:08 (James uses the time machine.) 12:09 James#2 leaves with the power source.

[@psychickitty8840]

Yes, but how did the James cycle start? James 2 tells James 1 exactly what to do, but it's a chicken-egg scenario since the now James 2 is only giving the orders he heard as James 1.

[@drroast4265]

PREDESTINATION PARADOX

[@abcd123906]

@Tim Malle Thank you! Finally the correct way to explain this. All these other people in the comments section who are completely full of shit saying they understand and "ohhh, it's quite intuitive actually, you just don't comprehend quantum mechanics bla bla bla" can go f*** themselves. Tim Malle deserves a medal. Thank you sir!

[@uuuummm9]

Why did James come to Howard with that case for the time machine as if he already knew Howard made it?

[@Michael_T_Scott]

but how'd there every get to be a howard#3 in the first place the first loop there wouldnt have been a howard 3 to die. Unless James shot him the first time.... which makes him the real genius

[@charliedango2664]

The look of terror on the dogs face as he watches himself run up was the best part of the movie. Give that pup the Oscar!

[@hayzmation5354]

I wonder how they scared the dog to get that

[@skoviozgamer7436]

Lol

[@jodifoster9820]

he didn’t do nothing…

[@CharlotteRuth]

I loved that! That was hilarious! Poor dog!

[@patrickparker4576]

What a moron. As if they inflicted terror upon this dog to make a short film. 🙄

[@pyrosnineActual]

When you've got 25 points of intelligence, but only 8 points in Wisdom.

[@stantondinger5836]

It's the 50 points into Charisma that makes it work though. Intelligence and Wisdom means nothing if you cannot talk your way into or out of something.

[@UltraBlitzer755]

@@stantondinger5836 ooh la la somebody's gonna get laid in bard college.

[@spiderlip]

@@UltraBlitzer755 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Spicymuffin]

Jeremy Stallings Wait for a an update, the option to re locate all points becomes available and slam 50 points into strength

[@curiepatoorie3536]

The twist is. The time being stolen is actually ours. Mind blown🤯

[@oneofthehappiestpersononea8381]

Good analysis

[@hayzmation5354]

Disney’s Brave, Merida lookin’ pfp

[@sswwiinnccee]

Best comment award goes to you🤣

[@curiepatoorie3536]

@@sswwiinnccee Thanks Tom. You're super sweeet. Adourable🥰🥰

[@curiepatoorie3536]

@@oneofthehappiestpersononea8381 Thanks Shubham🥰🥰

[@tomasespitia3427]

I love to finally see a character that isnt crazy, that is logical enough to not only not act on impulse, but plan its actions trough time travel and also logical enough to collaborate with himself, i dont care that it is the villain

[@thomaserbsenzahler712]

Why did I take 11 years to find such a channel? An absolutely fantastic short film. I think I know what to do with that rainy afternoon

[@DrTariqRamadan]

Go to the time machine box 🗃 😂

[@thefisherman5161]

Took me 12 years

[@adityarajauria]

Watch stalled short movie it will be worth!

[@mrmz3802]

Because you are slow 😂

[@mmt92]

Stephen Hawking "If time travel would be possible we already have visitors from the future".

[@fahrero793]

....or from the past.

[@subhamburnwal9127]

He had said that and did a funny little thought experiment sitting at his tea table and no one arrived. He assumed since that experiment will definitely be talked about in the future, then someone who actually invents TT someday would pay a visit, .. but Stephens definitely didn't think of it like this or didn't want to: why would someone risk changing the future by visiting him in a publicly recorded experiment?

[@Kyanzes]

But what if they have already left?

[@fahrero793]

@@Kyanzes Possible that they were disgusted.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

, yes - but they would know NOT to make themselves public under ANY circumstances, already knowing the bad outcomes from the first time they were captured by government agents, intensely studied in a lab, interrogated with brutality, and finally vivisected for science. NO = You NEVER tell anyone you are from the future, that's need to know only basis, and no one in the past needs to know !

[@edgeofforever7720]

To the people who keep arguing that "time traveling to the past is impossible" and "this is unrealistic" and stuff like that. I say to you sir/mam it's just a film. It's supposed to be like that.

[@btwimdaddy6266]

Excuse me i identify as a sea cucumber and it hurts u would call me a man or a womannnn😂

[@4t7bosstk53]

time travel is possible

[@nobody6317]

The writer of this must be a genius for comprehending this in their imagination

[@timmalle8936]

I like how people complain that you have to add the earth's movement in space to the rotation. But if you ignore this and Howard just has to run back the distance to his house that he made through 5 minutes of our world's rotation, that means in the video he is actually able to run 993 miles per hour (1598 km/h). RESPECT.

[@AntsCanada]

Wow! This blew my mind. Only thing I would bring up is the Earth is not only spinning but traveling quickly through space in orbit around the sun. Assuming Howard is transported to the exact same location, 5 mins may have been enough to transport Howard somewhere high in the sky, deep down in the Earth, in an ocean or other country, or worse in outer space!

[@NickFisherman]

Exactly.

[@traetuusplays8987]

One problem there though. The earth AND Howard are both confined to the same plane of time. Therefore five minutes ahead or behind the earth is going to be where it would be the same as if it traveled five minutes. They are only traveling through time so every single increment of time will have a point in space. And being Howard is ON earth it will be exactly that same way. They in this sense are technically NOT two objects. Hard to explain via texts, but lets say. At 12:00am Jan 1st, 2019 the earth and howard will be at precise certain points in space at said time. Now if they MOVE THROUGH time they will simply be fast forwarding to said spots they would be after 5 minutes of travel time through physical space. Hopefully that makes sense.

[@differous01]

This is Dr Who style time-travel; Time And Relative Dimension In Space (Tardis). But you are correct: 1 minute ago 'here' was [edit*] 1140 miles away, & if time-travel DOESN'T conserve orbital momentum (*19 miles a second, so it's reckoned), the best chance of survival is to go about dawn in a space craft.

[@danthegreat8411]

*OMG HOW ARE YOU HERE?!!!😱😱😱*

[@swerzye4472]

AntsCanada being in space is way better than being destroyed by earths pressure. At least you see a cool sight before you die

[@Gwalchgwyn]

Travelling five minutes back in time without also moving through space would leave you NINE THOUSAND KILOMETRES from your starting point based upon the orbital velocity of Earth (not even taking into account the solar galactic orbit or the galaxy's own velocity, which would multiply that distance). Given that it's the middle of the day, and assuming that his own inertia is unchanged, he would find himself floating in darkness, and would have a few scant seconds to marvel at the stars before he passed out (and thereafter rapidly expired). He'd deserve it anyway - someone who can build a time machine but (1) tests it first on his dog rather than an inanimate object (evidenced by his lack of anticipation of the results), (2) looks for the dog inside the box even though he's just sent it back in time (meaning it would have appeared in the box before he started, and the box would now be empty), (3) does not consider the consequences of time travel without moving through space, and (4) can't put the sequence of observed events into an order that makes logical sense before running to his own death (and even shoots himself in order to prevent himself from shooting himself, but forgets he did so as he runs back in through the same door) is simply too stupid to live. He'd be too stupid to build a time machine, in fact. o.O

[@coenraadloubser5768]

Or maybe he just became obsessed with the calculation, obviously took into account the rotation, inclination, orbit of sun, milky way, etc... but made a rounding error... or maybe his experiment altered the universe by that much and he should've measured that so he could take it into account too :-p

[@untitledmcyt]

You must be fun at parties

[@kandibancandy1242]

Alright... What kinda weed is that. ?

[@btwimdaddy6266]

@@kandibancandy1242 hell nah thats that new creth crack and meth together 💀😂😂😂

[@btwimdaddy6266]

If u know oh so mf much about time travle invient ut till then stfu with fake ass opinion that could never make since because NO ONE HAS FUCKING TIME TRAVLED (maybe) so u dont know the results

[@i_am_aladeen]

11:15 "I'm such an idiot" Finally a clever thought coming out of his brain.

[@aarons7975]

I love how they use current, low tech-ish devices to make this high techie thing. A proximitor housing, a thermo bulb from a switch, the indicator window on a valve positioner etc. kind of funny in it's own way.

[@rustycherkas8229]

Kinda like Sulu pressing pretty coloured bits of glass (or plastic) glued to a sheet of plywood in order to take the Enterprise halfway across the Galaxy...

[@iriscapes]

Following the film logic here are the instructions to build the time machine: 1. Collect a lot of electronic equipment. 2. Connect the equipment randomly until the future you visits you and tells you that the machine is working and you should use it to tell the past you that is working. 3. Profit.

[@higgydufrane]

Everyone knows the correct order is: 1. Collect a lot of electronic equipment. 2. Connect the equipment randomly until the future visits you and tells you that the machine is working and you should use it to tell the past you that it is working. 3. ???????? 4. Profit.

[@jaedenvanderberg3890]

Don't forget the immortality.

[@benthompson2136]

Well of course. That's what my future self told me when he arrived.

[@bsingin64]

I've been stuck on step one for 36 years. Haven't tried to make a time machine yet. Not sure when I'm going to start, but that's irrelevant.

[@dorijancirkveni]

It's actually like this (Gru's plan meme template): -Invent a time machine -Demonstrate it to your rival -Find your dead body -Get killed by yourself

[@rmapcynan1039]

Sci-fi technology always requires flashing lights.

[@ImehSmith]

😅😂👍🏽👍🏽

[@lillyanneserrelio2187]

That's to symbolize the shockwave of breaking the time barrier. Just like reaching mach speed and breaking the sound barrier has the accompanying sonic boom that shatters windows, the time shockwave makes lights flicker... aggressively.

[@Kyanzes]

And charge travels at the speed of spilled coffee.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

RGB LEDs is the special power that transforms that stack of old stereo, phones, lawn box, and PC equipment into a time machine.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

This will be a documentary in the past ... 😛

[@sonicgen20]

Suddenly I'm actually binging fan made short films that involve time travel and time loops.

[@skoviozgamer7436]

This short film is great becuase its ALL the time travel paradoxes mixed up into one very realistic short film ! Well done! If this where real, the loop would go on forever...

[@OpRidder4920]

It did

[@Ukobold]

Yes… but forever for the same 10 minutes. In the past. The next paradox would be : where would the running ( !… ) character get his energy from without ever eating and sleeping ? And another would be the slow but unavoidable depletion of oxygen on earth. Correct me if i am wrong, but I am from the future, about two years from you, and 5 month from the one who responded to you. Or you both might be the same person. I am almost sure I am not, but I’71 so who knows ? I might have just forgotten… 🥸

[@jamesorendorff2284]

@@Ukobold nope, neither character runs forever. they each live one continuous life. you can plot their lives on a timeline to see for yourself.

[@RockZerr]

@@Ukobold no, you see the one dude travels couple of times back and eventually dies while the other dude travels one time back in time and steals the device. The loop goes on forever but the characters themself get replaced by new "copies" of themself in the loop.

[@kunaljalan8489]

@@RockZerr It's not a loop the dude only time travelled three times and in the third time he gets killed. So, he just dies and there is no loop.

[@dylanwalkerphotography2812]

This must have been confusing to edit. Great film.

[@finitefilms]

Thanks Dylan! It was quite a brain-twister to edit, but honestly it was even more confusing to film (check out our production diaries to see what it was like: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4Tdm5ejp9d9qKc)

[@himself187]

yes it needs more time

[@jamesren6925]

Dylan Walker Photography hb

[@AJayofficiel]

i swear

[@lebohangkhetha-elkay-8901]

i felt the same too as i was watching. They did a good job

[@michaelhouse7545]

As long as the rotation of the Earth is being taken into account, so does the movement of the solar system and the movement of the galaxy. Time travelers would end up out in space :)

[@s0n0fsparda]

Michael House Lol had the same idea a while ago: that a time machine should be onboard a rocket to go back to the starting point. But Einstein said there is no absolute reference point soo maybe earth is the reference point, and you wouldn't change place after all, just like water keeps falling down in a moving car. Headaches again, i love timetravel but i hate it at the same time !

[@M9199bro]

son of sparda the reference point would be the point earth was at when the time traveler left/

[@jacobk2]

Michael House My thoughts and calculations, exactly!

[@nacho74]

Michael House But if space and time are connected through the fabric of space time, he should also travel through space and time although he said he traveled only through time but because the fictional character didn't realize spatial movement

[@michaelhouse7545]

nadjim73 He did travel through space and time. Which is why he didn't end up in the box when he was done. The issue is, he moved through space in an illogical way.

[@ivanbuneev9679]

this short is a masterpiece of a time paradox. I guess that's why Dr. Brown never wanted the time machine to fall into the wrong hands

[@jenniferbeyer6412]

Yes. I agree with you. It is a paradox. And Doc. Brown was right about the wrong hands. And trying to keep track of all the Howard's s a cool twist to it.

[@PreciseCuts]

My short film paradox : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJTUeYmei8qsobs

[@NeorecnamorceN]

Wait, what? This isn't a paradox tho🤨. What part is self contradictory?

[@missouribob7850]

I'm trying to figure out if this runs up the electric bill multiple times or if it only charges the electric bill once.

[@LootGoblin4510]

LOL.. a true paradox...

[@henrymccoy7171]

I think I hurt myself laughing...

[@sogpen2632]

But why the hell would he go back in time to avoid his own "death" when he is actually alive?

[@rameshchandramajhi2537]

Its a paradox you fool

[@poopyharlow8679]

coz he'll eventually die, look at this way, if your past self isnt alive, how would you?!

[@randomgreatness2298]

@@poopyharlow8679 dude's still a moron, can we agree

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

because he got the sequence mixed up... once he's dead the looping stops, but he doesn't realize that until the gun is pointed at him, and -= it's over.

[@poopyharlow8679]

@@randomgreatness2298 who? me?

[@AdilKhan-yc5db]

1. If Jim haven't been there Howard would still have been alive. So, there must have been a third Jim who told the first Jim to go to Howard with a that exact suitcase. 2. And also, if Jim figures out that Howard will know that he has stolen the time machine, So there must have been a timeline in which Howard didn't die and Catches Jim for stealing the time machine but some how Jim still manages to use it to create this new time line in which he didn't get caught. Thus at least one time travelling instance is missing from this short film.

[@MrOrzech1]

1. Jim could later go back in time. Maybe with better machine so he could go back in time safely more than 5 minutes 2. Just think. Something important is gone and Howard would not notice that?

[@matthewwriter9539]

We know that Jim faked the letter, so clearly Jim knows that he isn't the better scientist and wants to trick Howard into giving up early. So Jim is probably already the kind of guy who will steal another guy's work. What I want to know is how he knew that he just needed to steal that one part, and what size to cut the foam in the suitcase for? Also keep in mind that Howard didn't figure out the Earth rotation thing until after he went back the first time.

[@taurianferguson]

i was thinking the same thing.

[@matthewwriter9539]

@Star Saber Jim said he was already on his way. He had made the letter as a way to trick Howard. Jim didn't know about the time machine, yet knew that Howard was the better inventor. He planned to trick Howard into stopping his research and stealing whatever Jim had. How he had the suitcase set up with the perfect sized hole for the cog... that I can't explain.

[@gzwerpjgbf]

I think the first time around Jim shot Howard and got away with it which is what started the loop,

[@caocao45590]

I love the props, stereo equipment and a 1980's Prometheus 1200 baud modem.

[@savegas2008]

Young seth McFarland made some good decisions after this. He went on to skip the plane, become a talent powerhouse and has been set for life financially for a while. Good on him.

[@TheReaMrBurntSausage]

absolutely love the scarf. Its trapped in an endless loop. That simple exchange made each of the infinite scarves shift ownership one over to the previous version.

[@alexandriariley5209]

+Unique and Hilarious Username Correction: the past self's scarf went onto the future self, bypassing several minutes. So instead of being in a loop, it basically took a bypass.

[@crumblinggolem6327]

+Unique and Hilarious Username +finitefilms In fact if it loops enough time, it will start to wear off and alterate the initial loop. In fact enven if it seems that there isn't any paradox the whole thing is. It only work if you look at it from the outside of the loop. Try to folow the events with the eyes of one of the characters : the "bad guy". The Idea of turning back in time to prevent himself from taking the core and being dicovered was implemented by his future self who got it from his future self, again and again and again ... It's a very interesting version of the "paradoxe de l'écrivain" (sorry I don't know the english equivalent). The same goes for the killing, it only emerged because his future self already killed himself. The shot has no cause and come from nothing enven though it's the cause of every thing. I'm not saying it's bad, in fact I found It awesome, I'm just pointing out the paradoxes. Great job !

[@jaredrice354]

+Timcampy TheGolem it's called the ontological paradox. Look it up

[@alexandriariley5209]

Jared Rice the scarf isn't in an ontological paradox, though. it went FROM a past self TO a future self.

[@jaredrice354]

+Thomas Riley no I understand, I meant how the people were in an ontological paradox not the scarf, I completely agree with you

[@mustafa1977mustafa]

If you want to travel two minutes later, just wait two minutes... 🤣🤣

[@david203]

Correct. Any other displacement in time also displaces you in space, which avoids paradoxes.

[@rajarshimukherjee4844]

How does time travel lead to space travel?

[@david203]

@@rajarshimukherjee4844 If you travel back in time by just 1 minute, you will also be translated 1 light-minute away. So even if you transmit a signal back to Earth, it has to arrive after you left, avoiding potential paradoxes. Nature does not tolerate paradoxes.

[@david203]

@ankurbohra04 In order to prevent paradoxes, which are impossible in nature. A signal by light is the fastest way to communicate back in time. But if you are also translated a light-minute away, your signal will take one minute to reach its destination. That prevents any possible paradox caused by a signal being received before it is sent.

[@badbiker666]

@@david203 Or a vacuum.

[@vardhanshah2810]

7:00 That man's so cool. Like "Two of you came, one shot another and just back in box and disappeared again"

[@andrealaurenmaria]

Ok, here is my sequence. Jim#1 goes to Howard#1's house to "prank" him about the funding, and then Howard#1 jumps into the time machine to "prove" that it works. All of a sudden, Howard#2 pops into the garage through the same door Jim#1 just came in asking if "he's the one that gets shot?" and then Howard#3 comes into the garage through a side door, and Howard #2 panics and shoots him. Jim#1 is in shock and asking, "What is happening" and then trying to tell Howard #2 to stop and that he was just joking about the funding. Jim#1 has a conscious and is actually really scared at this point. Anyway, Howard#2 is babbling about having to go back to save himself and he keeps saying, "remember?" to Jim#1 and Jim#1 really truly has NO IDEA what Howard#2 is talking about. Remember, Howard has already been looping in his timeline, so he has already been with the "other" Jim. So Jim#1 has just witnessed that the time machine works and decides to steal it, but as he drives away, trying to "balance" the globe on his lap, (I'm guessing) he remembers that when Howard#3 comes back, he will notice the globe is missing and Howard's time loop will stop. This is the moment he makes his plan to keep Howard's time loop going. Or in other words, "kill him". He realizes he has to get back before Howard #3 pops into the garage so that he can trick Howard#3 to go save Howard#4.. So he gets an empty case for the globe, drives back to Howards house, jumps into the time machine to create a Jim#2 who runs out and stops Jim#1 from driving away and brings him back just in time for Howard#3 to pop in. Jim#2 has Jim#1 hide behind the desk and acts out what Jim#1 has to say in order to keep all Howards in the time loop. Howard#3 now thinks this is the first time he's come back to the garage, so Jim#2 lies to Howard about Howard "killing himself" so he better go back and save himself. Then Jim#2 steals the globe and that's the end of the story. Jim#1 goes back and becomes Jim#3 who teaches the ORIGINAL Jim what to say to Howard. So Howard's time loop is him going back in time, seeing himself get killed, coming back to Jim in the garage, and Jim telling him to go back to save himself, and then becoming his own victim. Jim's timeline now just has a "hiccup" of him going back in time to teach the next Jim what to say to Howard#3 and then Jim's timeline carries on as usual. Accept he gets all the glory! BTW, when Jim#2 forgot to give Jim#1 his scarf back, every time a Jim goes back, he has to take the original Jim's scarf when he acts out the scene for the Jim behind the desk to learn. This is the only way I can make sense of it. Now I'm going to think about Howard's perspective and why he didn't catch on to it. Like when he saw himself with the pink flamingo and running ahead or when Jim kept saying, " I have no idea what you are talking about!?" I haven't really followed the actual minutes, so I'm guessing Howard just got mixed up which Howard was ahead of him and which one was behind. Boy, I really loved this film and have watched it about 3 times in full, and lots of snippets. The actors were really good too!

[@lokisepic]

Nice essay.

[@nakiarobby3996]

Yh

[@abcd123906]

@andrealaurenmaria What's your number? Can I call you so you can explain it to me? LOL. Of all the people in the comment section, you seem like you actually understand (or can at least explain it) better than anyone else. All the other people who are trying to act smart and disparage those who don't get it yet just seem like they're bullshitting. This is literally driving me crazy!!!! I would greatly appreciate it. (I did read your explanation, but I have some questions before I'll really get it)

[@ditkind1340]

You really stole MY time on this one. These 17 minutes just felt like 5 minutes!!

[@dontbemean3942]

Dit Kind what was u gonna do in that 17mins ? Wank ? Lol 😆

[@DarkSalamander0]

@@dontbemean3942 stole*

[@Dub4Fun]

@@dontbemean3942 actually, yes

[@lokisepic]

Stole*

[@manankalani0409]

Perfect comment

[@JonasPolsky]

The least plausible part is that someone in Southern California would be wearing a jacket and scarf in the daytime.

[@finitefilms]

lol. True. It was really hot the entire time we were shooting.

[@greenagon8129]

you are a scary person

[@TheFiown]

If it was fashionable they would wear floor length fox fur coats with cowboy hats ,,,,,

[@TruthfullySpeaking500]

Kanye West has warn fur coats and moon boots on many occasion. I guess what you consider reality is not what is actually reality.

[@12801270able]

I'm curious - where'd you get that scarf from? I fancy the way it looks.

[@thegaminghero2201]

This does NOT seem like a video that woulda been made 12 years ago... Such high quality for such an old youtube video.

[@curtisgordon7379]

This film really shows how time travel would work. If you go back you won’t be able to prevent anything from happening. You would only be able to see it happen again.

[@joemasters2270]

Travelling back in time by a few minutes is just ASKING for trouble from your other selves.

[@Jmamak]

Travelling back a hundred years is destroying the future

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

Jim had it right. Jump only ONCE. Then tell yourself what to do, then you jump, then their is only one of you. No panic use of lethal force.

[@david203]

Not at all. Travel back by a few minutes translates us AWAY by a few light-minutes, which prevents us from creating paradoxes but also kills us.

[@knowledgeBoosterkb123]

@@david203 if he travel through with time then he must be at moon in a minute with light speed.

[@NeverNude]

Kudos to the props department...I mean, when I picture someone who is able to put together a machine that can manipulate time, I think, "Yeah, that guys keeps his high school physics textbook close by"

[@bradleyhaws6963]

Start the video with the most adorable dogs ever. You have my full attention

[@BangMaster96]

The problem with time travel is that not only do you have to travel through time, but also through space. Space and Time are interwoven.

[@itzscarrot]

My brain hurts........

[@calebcrosscountry1431]

Fuccin eh....

[@suthersingh3412]

mine too.. lol

[@MrTruth111]

hahaha

[@lostsassychild6021]

Basically he caused a grandfather paradox.

[@SamantaUwU_97]

Let me lick it... what?

[@ayush612]

I am a simple man. I see Joey Tribbiani. I click.

[@anonymoussurfer8319]

Enjoy your win for the day.

[@ayush612]

@@anonymoussurfer8319 ok

[@anonymoussurfer8319]

@@ayush612 just in case you couldn't tell, I meant it as a compliment.

[@rahulsr]

After 7 months, same here man, I thought the man in the thumbnail is Joey tribbiani, I clicked.

[@nickrameau938]

@ResidentEvil302 Rican215usa Chill, boomer.

[@STANNco]

i remember seeing this movie several years ago, it was a huge inspiration even then

[@tinaflintstone8148]

I didn’t completely understand all of the time jumping, but I completely enjoyed this anyway.

[@nerdyeditor4747]

Neither do I but all I can get is It's a paradox a time cycle which will never end 😶

[@TheGadileck]

@@nerdyeditor4747 I watched it 3 times.. wish this were a full movie.

[@whoopdee-doo6393]

It’s at times like these I like to remember that all time is happening all the time. Just because you’re not in the same time as someone else, doesn’t mean that other time isn’t going forward.

[@balkrushnakadam7082]

Last guy got out of time loop and the inventor is still stucked in it.

[@saoirsecara4701]

Stucked 😂

[@balkrushnakadam7082]

@@saoirsecara4701I am learning English, I make such mistakes in verbs.

[@jeri8853]

I enjoyed reading the comments more than watching the film! Ty all.

[@toastwelldunne]

And the best actor award goes to . . . Mollie! A masterful performance that outshines the two legs.

[@JennyBWhite-bn1pw]

Just adding my two cents and three words to the overzealous time travel experts: "Suspension of Disbelief" That was a fun ride! Kudos to the filmmaker!

[@mlcrip9552]

Jenny B. White I missed it totally 🙄 explain?

[@jhetgrabis6137]

As as self-proclaimed time travel expert no suspension of disbelief is necessary. This is a coherent and self-consistent sequence of events.

[@1..0w0..3]

Him: smart enough to create a time machine. Also him: keeps a bunch of opened drinks on the table that's right beside the computer and the wires that are connected to the time machine.

[@praevasc4299]

Also him: knowing the one who discarded the lifevest will be the one to shoot, but he still runs after him.

[@Starteller]

Int: 20 Wis: 8

[@forrestmillard2627]

But how did the rival already have the perfect container to keep it in when he showed up unaware of time travel? Makes me wonder what he already changed before the start of the video.

[@aimymyers403]

did he place the gun on the desk?

[@daevydjae]

@@aimymyers403 Yes. Howard had it just in case something went "horribly wrong" with the dog.

[@daevydjae]

Good point but my guess is that Howard asked for it to hold his "invention", and told James the needed dimensions. James just took advantage of it.

[@LootGoblin4510]

but it wasn't made for it, if you notice its for an oblong object, the "time machine" piece seen was squarish, go back and check it... it just happened to still be able to fix in the case (but you could be right re reason WHY it was there, despite the different form fit)

[@grandmarshalbeans8459]

The rival showed up with the intent of stealing 'something', but he did not know yet, what he would be stealing. Maybe he saw a picture of the tool, or the protagonist accidentaly bragged about it some days earlier.

[@dilansankalpa1019]

Time is such a dangerous thing to play with. It is a fundamental dimension of this universe and small intervention could have implications beyond our wildest dreams

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz385]

This is incredible! The temporal causality loop is my favorite kind of paradox, because it seems to be the only logical kind. I'm glad you didn't use the BTTF kind of paradox, where everything slowly changes. A timeline this complex takes tact and intelligence to conceive, so bravo to you!

[@beingabetterman7080]

I love all the talk about the impossibility of time travel and the paradoxes..... I just watched a made up story about made up science and made up paradoxes and made up rotation of the sun and universe....... and, Was entertained - I think that is the absolute point!

[@scoobyloo3157]

@ beingabetterman Well said. I love the way some people try and show how clever they are, but forget how stupid they are not to take into consideration that the initial concept isn't possible in the first place! That's why it's called sci-FI and not fact. You don't have to be Einstein to watch sci-fi, just enjoy it

[@nightsonglightning7884]

This was simultaneously the most confusing and amazing short that I’ve ever watched.

[@TheSalosful]

When the future is in the past and the past in the future. Messed up. Brilliant.

[@donsolo7860]

I didn’t do anything you disappeared two more of you burst in one of you shot the other one lmao 😂 that sounds like such a rick and morty scene

[@DaSpoonyBard]

The way the duplicates treat each other is quite reminiscent of The Prestige.

[@MikeBSc]

Strangely enough, even though I just watched this, I read your comment in Rick's voice in my head. Before even reading about the Rick and Morty part.....

[@nayyarrashid4661]

@@DaSpoonyBard it's more like Triangle... Infinite time loop...

[@aximusroh6453]

Yeah that was hilarious 😂🤣😂 👍

[@MyxaTcakatuha]

Rick assumes time travelling stupid

[@rockmandzx]

This is literally the perfect time traveling movie

[@benthompson2136]

Nope, the movement of the Earth was inaccurate.

[@singhsakshar007]

You should have watched predestination

[@anitabosse]

@@singhsakshar007 I have

[@Brucebod]

I like the way it starts with _two_ dogs, even before one of them has time traveled. Kinda lets one know what they are in for. :)

[@troopIine]

Why it is always necessary to put time on loop when it comes to time travel , can't other theory come in existence !

[@LivingDeathGuy]

I really like how an over-looping time re-going line can be told using a linear time line.

[@ocegaming742]

Honestly one of the best short films I've ever seen. Why can't there be more like this on KZbin?

[@finitefilms]

Thanks Brad Hubbard! Have you checked out our other shorts? :) kzbin.info/aero/PL1FC9773553E1AB2B

[@ocegaming742]

finitefilms yeah i watched all of them.

[@johncgibson4720]

I can only guess that you are 10 years old and so are most of other commentators here. What is good here? Time direction is increment of entropy, which is creation of information. All these time travel movies are not entertaining at all when you already know the plot of "killing grand father causing the main character himself to disappear". Again and again. Nonsense and nonsense. Congress should be pass a law to ban making this kind of movies.

[@jamalfaris6192]

Oce Gaming !...i am a screen writher..this subject is prodictable over and over before..u can watch "project almanic" and altough the breliant movie "predestination" and enjoy whit ur self

[@mjdsr3100]

jamal faris can i just say for a screen "writher" u have some horrible spelling. So, your a screen distorter? And whats "prodictable" is how full of shit you are. U sure are a "breliant" screen distorter. I'll hit you up if I ever move into a cylinder.

[@TNTthepyro]

Can we take a moment to fully appreciate the detail that this writer made for this story? As it seems that I haven't seen anyone else point out this important detail yet....cuz JAMES GOT AWAY WITH IT. Let me break down my reasoning for this. When we first meet James, he has an empty case with an odd shaped hole. You can tell that James is slightly confused at the empty case when he opens it. This implies a lack of understanding of the later used purpose for the case. He ultimately figures it out...but leaves the question: Why does James have it if its empty? More importantly, why does he have it? Why was he on the way to Howard's house? The most logical reasoning I have for it is that (since this is all time travel related) that he ultimately gave it to himself...secretly. After this course of events with Howard and himself, Howard would take this to the "board" and ultimately get the device more thoroughly developed. Sometime after it is fully developed James would realize that had he not gotten the case and told to be at Howard's house at that time, he wouldn't have the time machine. So, James would go back in time and send himself the empty case, possibly with a note or something ambiguous as at the past James was unaware of the existence of time travel altogether. This last action of meddling with his own timeline follows true on the whole method of time travel in the film which was using the whole "do something because I already did it" concept of time travel. This sequence of likely suspicious events would lead the past James back to where he was and hence starting this short film. I really love the concept of time travel and appreciate it when there are hints at complex themes. The writers for this did an amazing job and really deserve some praise for not only making something entertaining with a bit of depth. This film allows even laymen of scifi to be able to understand and appreciate the complexity of time travel. This also really hit the spot for me as the empty case really shows the intelligence and depth of this piece.

[@TNTthepyro]

Okay, maybe I'm blind or gave up too quickly on scrolling to find others that also noticed the empty case in the beginning, but many of their responses are along the lines of "That is the James from the far future" or "James just came back in time and told himself". The acting in this film did not seem to give these theories much weight though. Either way I'm glad that others are noticing the more complex storylines as well!

[@Brucebod]

Oh! He just sent the case back! (With an address, I assume, cuz who knows where it would end up.) That is something I did not think of.

[@JeffreyOsb]

The things you can make out of old printers and scanners is pretty amazing!

[@ivanbelic4773]

I don't always time-travel, but when i do... I start spraying bullets on my clones as soon as i spot them.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

but it's not a clone - it's still you. I am always of the opinion that bad things happen if you shove matter, like human flesh, against the entire flow of universal time. . . All those little atoms that make us up.... they suffer from temporal inertia, and quiet possibly, burn up with nuclear energy. The ultimate friction / sonic boom : A temporal friction Time boom, and it makes a real mess !

[@ivanbelic4773]

@@SeaJay_Oceans You are missing the point here, i know it's not his "clone"... Tell me...If you happen to go back in time and suddenly stumble into your previous self...Would your first reaction be to draw a gun and shoot him(self) on the spot? I don't think so

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

@@ivanbelic4773 no, either it would be a new experience or an old memory already. Why he had a firearm makes no sense at all ? Nothing. Any researcher armature or professional would more likely have a fire extinguisher at the ready, in case all those electronics wired together burst into flame on overload. And a first aid kit. teleportation might end badly ?

[@ivanbelic4773]

@@SeaJay_Oceans Exactly what i had in mind

[@twizzy478]

Its not a “clone” its a previous or future time remnant of you

[@Sparrow9612]

Would killing another version of yourself count as suicide, homicide, or both?

[@finitefilms]

+Sparrow9612 I think you intellectually could argue it is suicide...but you'd probably be charged with homicide. BUT, it'd be hard to explain why the person you are meant to have killed is also still alive in front of them.

[@Redrinth]

+finitefilms attempted murder?

[@titolino73]

No!!!!!!

[@BIGMRTHEIS200]

assisted suicide?

[@DarionDAnjou]

attempted suider. he'd get off on grounds of no evidence.

[@hamsarajyoungscientist4090]

Am watching this shoet film 11 years before.... Super movie....... My scool days

[@jcarm185]

Awesome film; professional shot - extremely well acted - great locations and sets. LOVE it!!

[@saturn724]

Hey, I'm here from 2087, just came here to enjoy the old days of youtube

[@JamieBainbridge]

This is 100% implausible because nobody would run a science experiment on their own dog. I'd rather die than risk harming my dogs.

[@monishmeher3901]

True

[@preetykumari3961]

Rather use lab eat.

[@adrianfuller6042]

Best time travel story to date. Ppl power over anything else is such a great analogy for the modern world

[@blatinoh3at]

And I’m back….I saw this film years ago and tried to remember the name. I love time travel.

[@alanminne8185]

Well, this is a coincidence. I randomly am watching this on July 1, 2019. 🤔

[@dalecorne3869]

I must have been transported to the future because I'm watching it on July 3rd 2019...Let me hit this bong again...

[@b.morgan1237]

Bruh July 3rd here

[@i-primeproductions1517]

No. You've watched this several times before actually.

[@teenagevibes8205]

21September 2019

[@awadhariz1496]

what movie is this?

[@tristanblackwolf2043]

In other comments, observations are noted regarding whether or not time travelers would end up in space, conflicts of spatial events, and so forth. Let 'em go, guys. If you're going to suspend belief enough to play with the five-minute time-bounce to create the looping effect, just enjoy the story for its own cleverly designed sequence of amusements. Most sci-fi of this sort is "soft science," which means that certain elements are included while others are ignored, all for the sake of enjoying the story. Let it be fun! Within the parameters set by the story (not by scientific fact), it works, and works well. Kudos to the creators for a delightful, well-produced bit of temporal shenanigans!

[@bryanreed742]

The thing is that they attempted to explain it and totally botched it, and this was very distracting. No explanation at all would have been better writing. In sci-fi you're supposed to get one big suspension of disbelief and everything else must follow logically. This failed to do that.

[@danielbrown1724]

Such a cute pup!! Side note; these guys are missing one important factor; when you time travel, you travel back to a slightly different timeline so doing one thing won’t necessarily affect you in your timeline. Multiverse theory is very real!!

[@Peter-xm3ol]

That is one interpretation of time travel, but it is not the one they used.

[@kesalgamerivideoediting5568]

Yeah but there r many more theories..

[@jm844]

You can only travel forward in time and there is only one of you , taking yourself out of the equation of the time past and arriving at a future point chosen with only one version of you .

[@vlogofshahidpariyarath]

Everytime the excitement makes the inventor more complex thoughtful

[@mattrowlands5751]

I struggle to believe that someone who was clever enough to invent a time machine would be stupid enough to do that. That was still awesome though :D

[@XDARKGEROX]

The only hole in the short film (ignoring the discussion about 5 minutes and the location in space) for me, is that after he goes back in time into a pool and kills himself, he goes back again and he's not wet anymore.

[@thomasmazanec9704]

Love time travel stories. DUST doesn’t have enough of them.

[@satan1550]

If this were real he would've ended up in space

[@deevnn]

You are correct the earth is spinning around it's axis, the earth is traveling around the sun, the sun is moving around the galaxy and the the galaxy is on its way to Andromeda. Time is only one dimension of four.

[@Grimsowerart]

Unless of course it affects time AND space, as you would obviously build it as anyone who's actually building a time machine would understand this very basic thing you saw in a youtube video a week ago.

[@alexsfamily4166]

originalyithlan I've always wondered if it is possible to stop time for physics .. by increasing the speed of movement without distorting the space, time slows down, right? at what speed of movement does it stop? in the hypothesis of being able to physically stop in space in a total way (which is almost impossible since we have no references to understand what is really still) how would time flow? more quickly than on earth?

[@alexsfamily4166]

originalyithlan it is very clear thanks, so I arrived to travel at the speed of light compared to the observer not only would I see him slow down but in the end I would not see him anymore because even the light that travels from him to me would stop making it impossible to see him .. right?

[@alexsfamily4166]

original, thank you very much for your availability, I wish you a happy new year!

[@Laluan]

The 17 years of school didn’t blow my mind, but this 17min long video did...

[@Iukeafk]

You must be low iq then

[@Laluan]

Minecraft Marek Wow, you’re funny

[@Iukeafk]

@@Laluan ty *tips fedora*

[@Laluan]

Jesus why does everyone takes this seriously 😂

[@cutietamyaasmr1685]

For this to come out “8 years ago” this is nice quality!

[@eugenedavis6792]

Beam me back to the 80's I will be more than satified.

[@dickens1854]

here's my take on untangling the causation loop and timeline mess of this short film. there were actually five timelines. 1st timeline -- James1 received a frantic phone call from Howard4 at around 12:00 noon. James1 and Howard1 had a confrontation in the garage. Howard1 made his first time jump. 2nd timeline -- Howard2 materialized in the bathroom of neighbor1 at around 11:59. he ran to his garage but it took 8 minutes to get there, arriving at 12:07 pm. he saw the dead body of Howard4 and tried to destroy the machine but James2 convinced him to go back in time to prevent the unfortunate event. Howard2 entered the time machine box and made the second time jump. 3rd timeline -- Howard3 materialized in the swimming pool of neighbor2 at around 12:02 and ran to his garage and arrived at 12:05 pm. he saw Howard1 just closed the lid of the time machine box and disappeared into the past (timeline 2). the now paranoid and nervous Howard3 confronted the confused James1 as Howard4 burst into the door. Howard3 panicked and accidentally shot Howard4. Howard3 made the third time jump to prevent himself from shooting Howard4. 4th timeline -- Howard4 materialized in the bedroom of neighbor3 at exactly 12:00 noon. he ran outside and made a frantic call to James1 (of timeline1). he burst into the door of his garage but was accidentally shot by the paranoid Howard3. James1 stole the time machine power device and while he was leaving in his car, he was confronted by James2 saying that they should re-insert the power device and wait for the arrival of Howard2. James1 hid behind the time machine control panel while James2 reenacted his conversation with Howard2 who now saw the dead body of Howard4 on the floor, thus repeating the scenes in the 2nd timeline. James1 entered the time machine box at around 12:08 pm to make the fourth time jump. James2 stole the time machine power device and left. 5th timeline -- This was not seen in the film but this was the timeline where James2 materialized and confronted James1. this was also the timeline wherein he convinced Howard2 to go back in time for the second time, thereby triggering the events.

[@dickens1854]

***** by the way, i have excluded the dog timeline because it was not significant in the story plot.

[@JordanBeagle]

Homar Murillo This is incredible! Thanks for helping me understand it : )

[@RonLarhz]

Question is.what or why is james 2 doing it? To send james 1 away so he can be the "original" james? And of he drive off again would james 3 or james 1 appear since it seems like james is a greedy character??so even if it means stealing the part from yourself? And james2 told james1 "so u know understand how it works" but what does that mean?to their motive.

[@bootysmacker9384]

Homar Murillo so what happens to howard?all 4 howards die?

[@andythepants]

So how it works is Howard 1 goes back comes in finds the dead Howard4 goes back again to try and stop it kills Howard4 goes back once more and becomes the dead Howard. Since his first jump took him the longest to get back without that he doesn't die so James 2 tells James 1 he has to go back to stop James 1 from leaving early so Howard 2 can go back and complete the loop and James can have the machine as his own. There is no secret motive for James he just needs to be stopped from leaving early. Its easier to put together if you don't think of them as separate beings they are 1 consciousness at different times.

[@kijanailis]

Been on a short film frenzy the last week, must have watched hundreds so far...this was excellent! I shared it and subscribed.

[@finitefilms]

+kijanailis That's awesome! Thanks so much!

[@LanceElot]

share a list please. Time travel and sci-fi preferred + your recommendation :)

[@garytwitchett9359]

Molly was 'Top Dog' in this sophisticated film 👦👍🐕

[@randeepsinghdhaliwal3277]

They are in time loop which will never end

[@VertesaGaming]

Did anyone else go, "Awwwww." When the dog showed up?

[@thetooginator153]

This was an excellent work, and the only minor letdown was the lack of a solid ending. I think a lot of well-made shorts are actually concept films for either full-length movies or tv shows. It’s a shame that these well-made shorts can’t just have an ending. That wouldn’t stop it being made into a movie or TV show. THX-1138 started out as George Lucas’ film school project, and it was made into a pretty cool movie.

[@FutureDeep]

Bathtub Woman freezing in place was my favourite part.

[@virginiaconnor8350]

Cute Dachshund!

[@thetooginator153]

I guess these guys even made an original sound track for this film! With a small orchestra no less! I love how the ticking of a clock is embedded in the score. Well done!

[@sherlockshlome473]

Good and straight forward time travel with only one timeline which you get to know better and better as the film progresses. It's the Harry Potter approach to time travel. I like it.

[@aranayailyaris73]

*spike the dragon voice* "I thought getting shot would be future howard's problem... but now I AM future howard"

[@MineZack2]

Ha

[@MineZack2]

I remember that

[@isbestlizard]

Ahhh it warms my soul when the baddies win

[@LurkerPlus]

I love how the main character was so fixated on using time-travel to 'fix' things that his tunnel-vision prevented him from doing the common-sense thing to save himself. ^_^ (As for 'but the movement of the earth!', if the line had been that he didn't get the math quite right to arrive in the exact same location, that would work just as well - so let's not agonise over that minor detail, folks. ^_^)

[@DeathnoteBB]

Kittenpox Technically the Earth is flying through space, not just rotating or revolving around the sun.

[@jerryli821]

We're moving with our supercluster toward the Shapley Supercluster at about 2 million miles per hour depending upon which study you accept. 2 million mph is from Boston to NYC and back again every second. So every second of our lives we’re that far along, never to be back to that point in space.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Jerry Li Exactly. I know this is just a fictional story but now that I know that it’s funny when time travel stories account for rotation but not other movement.

[@gemstar7286]

He ended up ruining things by killing himself, i didn't understand what his reasoning was for having a gun, i know he's american but still .

[@Sunrise-go8up]

This short is pure genius! We need a sequel!! I love it!

[@kineticblues2766]

that *dog* in the beginning is _THE MAN!_ I love that little dude. 🙅‍♂️🤗❤️ I've only just begun. let's see how this turns out.

[@joblo6394]

Me, getting a parking ticket: “Wait! I can fix this “