Saturday Matinee: Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever
History Daily
Airship | Noiser | Wondery
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we dust off our VCRs to take a closer look at the film adaptation of HG Wells' 1897 book "War of the Worlds".
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| 0:28.8 | If Here If history is the study of the past, what then is the study of the future? |
| 0:35.1 | Well, it's futures study or futurology, defined as the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that |
| 0:38.0 | underlie them. But is this discipline any better than gazing at a crystal ball? |
| 0:42.2 | Worth any more than a tarot reading? What separates the science of the future from science fiction? |
| 0:47.5 | I am not qualified to answer, but there is a curious feature in our thinking about the future. |
| 0:52.7 | We've always been doing it. We have a long |
| 0:55.1 | history of futurology, and our evolving thoughts on the future can tell us a great deal about |
| 0:59.9 | ourselves throughout history. So let me introduce today's Saturday matinee from a podcast that |
| 1:04.7 | seeks to write a history of the future as told in the past, a show titled Every Single |
| 1:09.9 | Sci-Fi Film Ever. |
| 1:11.9 | Today, we're investigating the 1953 film adaptation of The War of the Worlds, |
| 1:17.0 | based on the seminal H.G. Wells book from 1897. |
| 1:20.6 | So, what can we learn about history through a Cold War era telling of a Victorian story? |
| 1:26.3 | I hope you enjoy. |
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