The Time Travelers (1964)
Why Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange recommends it
Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange answerers link it when identify-this-movie questions describe scientists stepping through a time portal into a wasteland, since it lets the asker recognise the film in seconds.
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What it is
A three-minute fan edit that compresses the 1964 sci-fi film The Time Travelers, directed by Ib Melchior, into a quick run through its whole plot, including the time-loop ending. It was uploaded by the channel theagg.
What people said
Cites Hypnosifl · 2014-12 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “What is this Sci-Fi time-travel Movie/TV Movie from the 1970's (I think) called?”
I think you may be talking about The Time Travelers [LINK] from 1964. At the end they were being chased by mutants rather than robots, but they did show androids being built at an android factory earlier. What made me think of it was your comment "jumping through a time travel machine that speeds up and replays almost the whole film 2 or 3 times becoming faster each time". At the ending of The Time Travelers, they go back to a point just before their younger selves departed the lab through the time window, see their younger selves almost frozen in time, then jump through the time window again to an idyllic future. Then we see their younger selves repeating the events of the beginning of the
Cites the guest · 2018-01 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Trying to find a Sci-Fi movie, probably from the 50's or 60's”
"The Time Travelers"(1964)? It was in color, and involved scientists traveling to the future. Near the ending, they encounter themselves in the lab and realize they're stuck in a time loop. Here is a section of the plot synopsis from Wikipedia describing this scene. The survivors return to the lab, where they make a strange discovery. Their past selves are still in the lab, yet to pass through the portal, but they appear frozen. Through some error, the travelers are experiencing time at an accelerated rate; the rest of the world, including their past selves, is moving in extremely slow motion. Their only option is to travel to the date the portal had briefly been set to before being set to 2
Cites LAK · 2020-12 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Mid-late 70's movie showing scientists exiting a control room after completing their task into a desert/badlands area”
Could this be The Time Travelers , from 1964? Clips visible here [this video] . It was also featured in Mystery Science Theater's 11th season. The scientists travel through a portal to the future, which is a standard-issue atomic wasteland. They meet up with the remaining normal humans in their underground base (this may be the rocky control room you're remembering), where they are building a giant space ark to flee the planet. Scientists open a portal to the future, which is a wasteland: [LINK] The scientists: [LINK] The wasteland, with mutants: [LINK]
Cites C. Cooney · 2020-12 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Mid-late 70's movie showing scientists exiting a control room after completing their task into a desert/badlands area”
Watching the video at [this video] brings clarity to many of the diverse elements. Aliens. The caves in rock. Walking out through the telescreen into badlands. This is most definitely it! Thanks so much!