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The Time Machine influenced Back to the Future
Added by Media Influence Map · 6 October 2026
The evidence
Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis have named George Pal's 1960 film of The Time Machine among their influences, and the DeLorean's time-circuit display copies the colours of the machine's dashboard in it: Wells's time machine, by way of Pal.
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