Post #335794 by tulsatv on Mon, Oct 1, 2007 11:55 AM

(I just realized this thread is the place to post this...)

Has anyone noticed that the White Sphinx figure, as conceived for the 1960 movie, "The Time Machine", looks like a futuristic Tiki:

http://www.colemanzone.com/Time_Machine_Project/Bob_Burns(1).htm

The year (1959-1960) was right for the Tiki boom to have influenced the art direction. The Eloi could be seen as an future incarnation of carefree South Seas people.