The Shape of Things to Come (1936 Sci-Fi) Directed by William Cameron Menzies

[@paulschulte1064]

One of the best sci-fi of all time. Even the special effects are first rate and so ahead of their time. I’ve watched this movie many times.

[@Marciaz]

Thanks ill watch it tomorrow.

[@-b-c-d]

Of all time 😂😂

[@paulschulte1064]

@ Yes. The story is an H G Wells story, the movie was made just before the outbreak of WWII, which it predicts, deals in three time frames and the special effects, well, I can’t think of any contemporary to it that even comes close. Deals with various aspects of the human psyche. The cannon that launches the space craft In the final scene well there wasn’t much in the way of rocketry at the time That’s my take.

[@alanfoster6589]

@@paulschulte1064 The cannon propulsion system technically could work. The problem are the G-forces it would subject humans to.

[@ggnagognagoma2462]

@@paulschulte1064 Chrononaut?

[@petergedd9330]

Wow for 1936 it was pretty spot on!! The effects are way better in my opinion than any digital editing, I love this Art nouveau style.

[@paulschulte1064]

@@petergedd9330 Exactly!!

[@JoeS-e5s]

Fascinating fantasy of what one man's vision of what will be mankind's future thought up prior to the actual second world war. These black and white movies are far more interesting than todays. Thanks for the posting.

[@maestroclassico5801]

Written 3 years earlier in 1933. This film 1936....A quick film adaptation of an original work by HG.....almost 4 years (7 years) from the beginning of WW2. HG had his prophetic moments.

[@Aetius828]

Ce qui est extraordinaire, c'est que mon grand-père avait vu ce film dans sa jeunesse, en 1936 ! Il avait été très impressionné, et je le découvre maintenant ! Magnifique film. 😊❤

[@christopheschwartz7374]

Un film culte des SF des années 30 comme je les adores! Merci pour le partage nostalgique; salutations de France.

[@warrenfoil6851]

Sci-fi with monsters and aliens can't touch this movie. There's nothing scarier than humans. There's no need for bug eyed scaled trees that eat people when you have Ralph Richardson. One of my top 10 for sure, the futuristic manufacturing and Art Deco world are stunning.

[@maestroclassico5801]

Wow Menzies directed this....quite a directoral effort....3 years later....after already directing he was the production designer for GONE WITH THE WIND..

[@dorklyasmr6017]

I love this movie. Its so forward thinking and weird as hell.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

ever seen Idiocracy?

[@huf67]

I know I'm high as balls right now, but this movie is trippy as hell !! I went from Christmas carols to dystopia and I don't know how !!

[@Paulinagoes]

Black and white!! I love these wonderful movies and this is a great one.Thanks for uploading it🤗🇦🇷

[@hamburgareable]

Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful 1936 sci-fi classic! Thank you CCC and thank you all for entering the chat, it means the world to me, so much to me! Its so epic and so majestic with its scope that you cant shake your eyes off it! The actors including Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Terry-Thomas, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Chapman and others are wonderful, striking and riveting, the musical score by Arthur Bliss is efficiently in tune with the chaos of the forthcoming scenes and most of all, the sets by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy are way more galactic than ever!

[@RayH0]

This was amazing to see on the Rokid max glasses. A 215" screen size. The airplane battle was funny

[@mikesilva3868]

Agreed 😊

[@mikesilva3868]

Great movie 😊

[@beakytwitch7905]

Art deco futurism.... Fun to watch ! 😊❤😊

[@doncorleone13]

Nice film Get the popcorn ready because Tuesday is movie night ❤😊

[@claraguzman6842]

One of the greats!

[@tracywilliams7929]

If you liked this movie then you will enjoy "Transatlantic Tunnel ". It is the story of building a gigantic engineering feat of linking America and Britain by an undersea tunnel and how it disrupted the lives and loves of its visionaries for generations and the people who sacrificed their lives to make it happen. It came two years before "Things to Come" was released. It is on KZbin.

[@aaronblaylock2092]

Thanks, I'm going to watch that next!!!

[@Cursey1]

A proposed tunnel linking London to USA was in the news this week. Estimated price tag of $200 Billion, but a person could make the trip in a hour. (I think that's what the article said). Per the comments, it's not very welcomed as the ecological disaster it could leave in its wake.

[@IntrospectorGeneral]

The novel was called "The Shape Of Things to Come" but this 1936 film was called "Things To Come". The shorter title probably worked better as a theatre marquee sign.

[@kmaggs7804]

Brilliant!❤

[@alanfoster6589]

Often overlooked: restore and preserve the countryside and nature and move everything else underground.

[@marcocaramico1102]

Un capolavoro per l'epoca in cui è stato fatto. Le speculazioni filosofiche sul posto dell'uomo nell'universo sono molto interessanti e attuali.

[@TheRealWolfmaniac]

Bien meilleur que beaucoup de films de SF des 50's et des 60's.

[@karensealy9782]

Thankyou 🎉

[@AntonioDemofonti-zm8ku]

Film fantastico ed un capolavoro!

[@rafaelbarros7557]

Um filme além do tempo belíssimo inclusive a fotografia, obrigado pela raridade

[@nohandleleft]

Subtitles are not subject to copyright, the notice at 0:29 is false and can be ignored. This movie would be considered public domain in the UK, possibly the US as well.

[@abelferquiza1627]

Hermoso! beautiful!

[@felixgolindano5093]

Los efectos especiales son increibles se ven hasta mejores que muchas de las actuales

[@TheHighlanderX]

Thank you 🍿🥤

[@germainegauthier5513]

A l'époque, un orchestre jouait !

[@LuisdeMontevideo]

Impresionante film

[@Xphotomann]

Dope!!!

[@stephanebichob9841]

Super ❤, un film très intéressant

[@NN-tg3nu]

Una pelicula rara, con los topicos que preocupaban a la comunidad ilustrada, la guerra, los ataques con gas, los caudillismos , las armas biologicas. Los zombies. El mundo guiado por los cientificos,los tecnocratas . El incontenible avance de la ciencia y la resistencia al cambio. Un guiño a Verne con Viaje a la luna, la ignorancia acerca de los cohetes, una mezcla dificil de digerir pero muy interesante, Mauricio.

[@maximilianoolmos5219]

La amoooo!!! Que genial película. ❤❤❤❤

[@DataWaveTaGo]

Things To Come - quick summary A comic species (humanity) muddles it's way through half-baked myths with the purpose to keep the goal posts at infinity, thus providing enough impetus to kick-start a consumer techno-binge that leaves a chorus of screaming beggars asking the age old bait-n-switch clincher "Which shall it be?!"

[@mannybravo237]

Dramatic🤘🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@benelleliv]

fascinating that they were so close with so many predictions in terms of media and tech but couldn't predict the jet engine.

[@SeattlePioneer]

Or the rocket. MANY problems with the gun approach, which would hav e left human being squashed to jelly.

[@alanfoster6589]

But managed advanced tanks, and a huge, transparent TV screen.

[@walterfechter8080]

"Wings over the world."

[@ThatOpalGuy]

this funny orange guy came up and told me only he could fix everytown...so I voted for him.

[@juanantoniosubinas4913]

Lo interesante es que al inicio de la película , predijo los ataques aéreos ( de los alemanes) al Reino Unido en 1940

[@VicoMC-rf3us]

"El Mundo 🌎🌍🌏 No es Suficiente" Atte: Carlos V Sacro Imperio. Siempre hay una infinita ambición... ♾️.

[@btalavera100]

sube mas peliculas asi por fa

[@oliversmith9200]

Hooray for HG Wells! Hooray for Orson Wells!

[@alanfoster6589]

They met one, in San Antonio. There is a recording of their radio exchange.

[@sidforbrains6552]

Great. grate movie

[@cyrilcurutchague2386]

Les dialogues à 4 minutes du début raisonnent ô combien ces derniers jours de 2024, on jurerait qu'à un moment ils évoquent "l'invation" de drones aux USA depuis la mi-novembre de cette année. :-)

[@itsonlyamovieshow]

Next year, every film released in 1929 will be entering the public domain. Will you be spotlighting some early talkies of the late '20s on this channel?

[@mabarrion]

There is something in the story that resembles the film Mad Max...44 years earlier.

[@TheTimeshadows]

This must had been a smash in Deutschland when it was first released.

[@andrewhumes3402]

Amazing even though it's a Hollywood version. Look at the monorail, holographic projection, a desktop flat screen, not to mention that the film predicted that Germany would start the next war

[@alanfoster6589]

Well, a British version.

[@SPavlo]

Funny but telling 1930's dystopia : endless progress meaning an egalitarian, but in fact totalitarian society. With all men in tutus, consistent with that Roman empire nostalgia 😂

[@getlost3346]

Very Soviet in fact. Science and reason was a dead give away. Well that didn't go well.

[@FRANCISCO-j2g6c]

👍👍👍

[@muslimindaenglalo6133]

Balan riverside watching

[@riffdigger2133]

1:17:36 iPhone 16 Pro Max with a 6.9-inch display.

[@pedrodelmar747]

È quello che succerà fra poco

[@lucmartin6611]

1936 HG = cinéma indépendant

[@maestroclassico5801]

Raymond Massey was British? I guess I forget that as he played Lincoln and played Adam Trask in East of Eden with a perfect American accent. Oh stupid me his son Daniel Massey is quite British. He played Noel Coward in STAR

[@peterinaia]

Nao posso ver um filme sem legendas na minha lingua ou dublado ,pena parece interessante.

[@laysmariamoraes442]

É só selecionar português no botão de configuração logo acima na tela.

[@peterinaia]

Obrigado tá com legendas em português estava em árabe.

[@danielebrinati8344]

Quel "capo" Rudolph sembra modellato su Mussolini...😆

[@aneozivota5699]

William Cameron Menzies - Space Gun?

[@oldedwardian1778]

THE MOVIE IS CALLED “THINGS TO COME”. NOT The Shape of Things to Come.

[@Kalemnos]

Ressortir le canon de Jules Vernes en 1936 alors que le principe de la fusée était déjà connu, c'est pas terrible comme science fiction. C'est curieux comme les auteurs de ce film imaginent l'évolution de cette société humaine comme un retour à la Grèce antique.

[@AntonioDemofonti-zm8ku]

Il Capo ha sul bavero le insegne di generale tedesco....

[@TopazToes]

It was a bit of a misapplication of the word, Fiction, to classify this window to the approaching reality of those days, and days to come.

[@rodneypantony3551]

Elon Musk. Smartwatch. Internet. Boring machine. Helicopter. Holographic commnnicator. What else did this film predict?

[@geezermann7865]

Flat screen TV's

[@aneozivota5699]

Nostradamus.

[@birdshenanigans8506]

1 minute 25 first advert

[@fraserb609]

Is there any influence political or cultural not covered in this movie?

[@SeattlePioneer]

No sign of anyone but whites in the whole world!

[@Bonypart]

Well they didn't predict the obsession with SUVs and that we would all be driving around in shoe boxes.

[@AntonioSerranoSolaz]

Gran film y mejor libro