The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops
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The Machine Stops

DirectorPhilip Saville

1966
50 min
TV MovieScience Fiction

The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But if the Machine stops, what then?

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