Willy McBean and his Magic Machine (1965)
- Original title
- Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
- Directed by
- Arthur Rankin Jr.
- Genre
- science fiction film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A schoolboy and a monkey use a time machine to stop a villain from changing history. They visit different historical periods to undo his meddling.
whimsicalplayfulfast-pacedsillylightheartednostalgicupbeatcampymusical
What happens
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine is a 1965 stop motion animated time travel musical film produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass' Videocraft International (now Rankin/Bass Productions) in the United States and Dentsu Motion Pictures in Japan. It was presented by Marshall Naify, released by Magna Pictures Distribution Corporation on June 23, 1965. The film tells the story of Willy McBean, a young schoolboy who teams up with an anthropomorphic monkey named Pablo to prevent the villainous professor Rasputin Von Rotten from changing the history of the world, using the newly created and duplicated "magic" time machine. Written, produced and directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., with Jules Bass and Larry Roemer as associate producers, the film uses a team of voice actors under the soundtrack recording supervision of Bernard Cowan in Canada, including Larry D. Mann as Von Rotten, Billie Mae Richards as Willy And Alfie Scopp as Pablo the Monkey. Tadahito Mochinaga supervises the "Animagic" stop motion process at MOM Productions in Japan, the same team behind the animation for The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1960–61) and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Back to the Future Part II (1989)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.