The Technicolor Time Machine

'Harrison, Harry. The Technicolor Time Machine.' New York: Doubleday, 1967, 1968. For further bibliographic information, see the entry for the novel in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.[1]

Comic SF on time-travel and its possible paradoxes and potential. The potential is for a failing film production company to make a historical drama on the cheap by sending a minimal crew back in time through the "vremeatron" device and shoot the actual history. Except how actual the actual history is — the Vikings on Vinland — gets complicated.[2]

Briefly discussed and put into context by Stephen Baxter, "The Technology of Omniscience: Past Viewers in Science Fiction," our initial source; q.v. for relationship of this novel to J. G. Ballard's "The Greatest Television Show on Earth" (Ambit Magazine no. 53, 1972). The novel was adapted for a radio play on BBC Saturday Night Theatre 5 September 1981.[3]

RDE, Initial Compiler, 17Mar19