Things To Come
Friday afternoon! Time for a video: H. G. Wells and Alexander Korda’s 1936 film Things To Come, based on Wells’ The Shape Of Things To Come. It starts in 1940 as a world war starts to unfold, a prediction Wells got wrong by a year: other prescient elements include the strategic importance of air power and the use of submarines to launch weapons of mass destruction. Also notable for a fantastic score and the use of the word “eupeptic” in the first five minutes.
