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Ames Trapezoid Window

Ames Trapezoid Window

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A trapezium (trapezoid) and the tallest end always appears nearest. Discovered by Adelbert Ames, Jr.
An image on, for example, a flat piece of cardboard, in the perceived shape of a style of window. When observed it appears to the human eye as a rectangular window but is, in fact, a trapezoid. A window is formed in the shape of a trapezium. It is often hung and spun around to provide the illusion that the window rotates through less than 180 degrees.
Amityville 1992: It's About Time

Amityville 1992: It's About Time

S  -  Ep  -  1992/07/16
Video 95 min   R
HOR USA
Jacob Sterling (Stephen Macht) brings home a mysterious clock from the infamous Amityville house, not knowing that it's haunted by demonic spirits.
Jacob Sterling brings home a mysterious clock from the infamous Amityville house, not knowing that it's haunted by demonic spirits.
Amongst Heroes

Amongst Heroes

2010/02/18
Film  -  min  
ACT ADV SF WAR Russia
Two young Russian historians are going to Ukraine to take part in the reconstruction of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation in July 1944. Starring Igor Petrenko.
Two young Russian historians are going to Ukraine to take part in the reconstruction of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation in July 1944. On sight they fall into conflict with Ukrainian nationalists, and some magical twist of fate, move into the middle of real warfare from more than 60 years ago. Miraculously avoiding death at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists, caught in the middle of fighting between the Red Army and the Nazis.
Amor Mio

Amor Mio

La Maquina Del Tiempo

S 1 Ep 74 2006/11/24
TV Series Episode 22 min   PG-13
COM ROM Mexico
A Mexican satire black comedy psychological thriller telenovela, starring Raul Araiza as Marcos Sinclair. This episode involves a time machine.
Time Machine
The Amphibians: A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence

The Amphibians: A Romance of 500,000 Years Hence

The Amphibians Books

S  -  Ep  -  1925//
Novel  -  min  

Wright's first novel (first printed in 1925), comprising book one of the classic work better known as THE WORLD BELOW. The two books were combined and published under this latter title in 1929. A superior novel in which Wright explores human evolution based on degeneration of the race due primarily to continual destruction of past civilizations (truncated)
An Adventure In Space And Time

An Adventure In Space And Time

S  -  Ep  -  2013/11/22
TV Movie 90 min  
DRA UK
A dramatic re-telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963. Featuring Nicholas Briggs as Peter Hawkins.
A dramatic re-telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who in 1963. /// An unlikely trio of misfits set out to create a science fiction series called "Doctor Who" about an alien Time Lord who explores space in a police box spaceship known as the TARDIS.

"Anachron"

S  -  Ep  -  1954/01/
Short Story  -  min  

Brother Number One invents a machine that can extract things and place things in elsewhen, but only if the acts don't interfere with free will; Brother Number Two tries to steal the machine.

"Anachron, Inc."

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Short Story  -  min  

The Anachron Trilogy of time travel stories, one of the earliest to introduce the concept of the multiverse and the first to use the term "time track" to describe the parallel time lines. Includes: Anachron, Inc. were merchants, not missionaries. They were traders whose outposts and trading stations were established across time from Egypt's glory to Modern America. But Barry's station was medieval France, and his goods were umbrellas and „ miracles to order!

"Murder in the Time World"

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Short Story  -  min  

"They can't accuse me of a crime when there is no evidence that it has been committed," said Karl Tarig. So he sent the body of the murdered man into the future. But he didn't realize the truth of the adage: Time will tell!

"Barrius, Imp."

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Short Story  -  min  

The Anachron Trilogy of time travel stories, one of the earliest to introduce the concept of the multiverse and the first to use the term "time track" to describe the parallel time lines. Includes: A tale of business „ a peculiar sort of business „ and ancient wrongs where laughing gas and sudden death are crossed up.

"When Is When?"

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Short Story  -  min  

The Anachron Trilogy of time travel stories, one of the earliest to introduce the concept of the multiverse and the first to use the term "time track" to describe the parallel time lines. Includes: It's pretty hard for a man to get into real trouble with a time machine on hand to yank him out of it. But Anachron Inc. was missing several groups of agents „ agents that vanished into nowhen!
Anachronism

Anachronism

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Short  -  min  

"An Anachronism; or, Missing One's Coach"

S  -  Ep  -  1838/06/
Short Story  -  min  
Ireland
A man, waiting for a coach in Newcastle, finds himself taken through time and face to face with Saint Bede, whereupon a philosophical conversation about time and the future ensues. Author unknown.
A man, waiting for a coach in Newcastle, finds himself taken through time and face to face with Saint Bede, whereupon a philosophical conversation about time and the future ensues. Traveler picked up by a stagecoach but is suddenly transported back over a thousand years. A very early time travel story. In it, the narrator is waiting under a tree to be picked up by a coach which will take him out of Newcastle when he suddenly finds himself transported back over a thousand years. There he encounters the Venerable Bede in a monastery, and gives him somewhat ironic explanations of the developments of the coming centuries. It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred, or were merely a dream.
Anaphora

Anaphora

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Short  -  min  

"Ancestral Voices"

S  -  Ep  -  1933/12/
Short Story  -  min  

Time traveler Emmet Pennypacker kills one ancient Hun and without realizing who will disappear from the racist world of 1935.
Ancient Aliens

Ancient Aliens

The Time Travelers

S 4 Ep 9 2012/04/13
TV Series Episode  -  min  
DOM FAN HIS
Is it possible that sightings of alien beings or UFOs may actually be evidence of time travelers from the future?
Is it possible that sightings of alien beings or UFOs may actually be evidence of time travelers from the future? And might ancient astronauts actually be time travelers from our future? //// Scientists explore a theory that alien sightings may be evidence of time travelers from the future.
Ancients of Easter Island

Ancients of Easter Island

S  -  Ep  -  1933/04/
Short Story  -  min  
Archeologist Harvey Manly and crew visit Easter Island where a sacred ritual seems to take Harvey back to a time when he, once was leader of the ancient Lemurians. Written by F. Stanley Renshaw.
Archeologist Harvey Manly and crew visit Easter Island where they participate in a sacred ritual with the indigenous people, and the ritual seems to take Harvey back to a time when he, as leader of the ancient Lemurians, lived the legend that gave birth to the ritual.

"And Adam Begot"

S  -  Ep  -  1944/05/
Short Story  -  min  

"...and It Comes Out Here"

S  -  Ep  -  1951/02/
Short Story  -  min  

Old Jerome Boell, inventor of the household atomic power unit, visits his young self to make sure that the household atomic power unit gets invented, so to speak.
And Then Came Lola

And Then Came Lola

2009/06/19
Film  -  min  
A talented, but distracted photographer, Lola (Ashleigh Sumner), on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn't make it to a crucial meeting on time.
A talented, but distracted photographer, Lola, on the verge of success in both love and work, could lose it all if she doesn't make it to a crucial meeting on time. But, as usual, Lola is late. With her job and girlfriend on the line, she has three chances to make it right. In a desperate race through the streets and back rooms of San Francisco, time grows short-will Lola make it? Will she come at all? With a pop sensibility that mixes live action, animation and still photography, And Then Came Lola explores love's age old question in a fresh new way, "If you try, try again, will you finally get it right?"
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