included · Causal Loop

The Time Travelers

Ib Melchior · 82 minutes

Research scientists experimenting with time warps are accidentally propelled forward into an unbearable future.

Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Causal Loop.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

A viewing experiment becomes a portal to the future, followed by failed returns, accelerated temporal experience and a recursive ending. Time-travel problems and consequences structure nearly the entire film.

The scientific portal expedition ends in an endlessly recurring sequence; repeating interval takes classification priority.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan45.5

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance9/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.3/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 53.61 base × 84.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt, Dennis Patrick

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

4 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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