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* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: Pre-rock version. The main characters wow the Elizabethans with [[TheForties 1940s]] jazz.

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* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: Pre-rock version. The main characters wow the Elizabethans with [[TheForties 1940s]] jazz.{{Jazz}}.
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* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: Pre-rock version. The main characters wow the Elizabethans with 1940s jazz.

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* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: Pre-rock version. The main characters wow the Elizabethans with 1940s [[TheForties 1940s]] jazz.
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** In 1585, John Smith was five years old, and {{UsefulNotes/Pocahontas}} was about ten years away from being born. Both are portrayed as adults. Indeed, Pocahontas should not even be in Elizabethan England, since her visit to England did not take place until well into the reign of UsefulNotes/JamesVIAndI.

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** In 1585, John Smith was five years old, and {{UsefulNotes/Pocahontas}} was about wouldn't be born for another ten years away from being born.or so. Both are portrayed as adults. Indeed, Pocahontas should not even be in Elizabethan England, since her visit to England did not take place until well into the reign of UsefulNotes/JamesVIAndI.
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-->'''The Professor:''' Now America is just fighting [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar her great civil war]].\\
'''Tommy:''' And now it's [[Film/GoneWithTheWind gone with the wind]].

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-->'''The Professor:''' Now America is just fighting [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar her great civil war]].\\
war.]]\\
'''Tommy:''' And now it's [[Film/GoneWithTheWind gone with the wind]].wind.]]
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* ShoutOut: As the dates tick backwards:
-->'''The Professor:''' Now America is just fighting [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar her great civil war]].\\
'''Tommy:''' And now it's [[Film/GoneWithTheWind gone with the wind]].
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* TimeMachine: Quite possibly, one of the earliest films to feature one. It's called the Time Ball, and it's a giant spherical craft that activates by flying into outer space. Incidentally, this means the movie's fictional protagonists beat UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin into space by almost twenty years. Or by more than three centuries, depending on your perspective.

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* TimeMachine: Quite possibly, While many previous films featured TimeTravel in some form, this was one of the earliest films to feature one.first in which it's achieved by a machine. It's called the Time Ball, and it's a giant spherical craft that activates by flying into outer space. Incidentally, this means the movie's fictional protagonists beat UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin into space by almost twenty years. Or by more than three centuries, depending on your perspective.
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** In 1585, John Smith was five years old, and {{UsefulNotes/Pocahontas}} was about ten years away from being born. Both are portrayed as adults.

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** In 1585, John Smith was five years old, and {{UsefulNotes/Pocahontas}} was about ten years away from being born. Both are portrayed as adults. Indeed, Pocahontas should not even be in Elizabethan England, since her visit to England did not take place until well into the reign of UsefulNotes/JamesVIAndI.
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* ArtificialGravity: The Professor budget-savingly activates this shortly after they get to space.
* ArtisticLicenseSpace: The view of the Earth from space shows a ringed planet, resembling Saturn, in the background. Neither Saturn nor any similar planet is that close to Earth.



* TontoTalk: Pocahontas introduces herself by saying "how" as a greeting, and it goes from there.

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* TontoTalk: Pocahontas introduces herself by saying "how" as a greeting, and it goes from there.there.
* WritersCannotDoMath: The altimeter measures height in increments of ten thousand miles, and the tenth increment is labeled as one million. Ten times ten thousand is a hundred thousand, not one million.
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''Time Flies'' is a 1944 British comedy film in which four modern people travel back in time to Elizabethan England. It is notable as one of the earliest films to feature a TimeMachine.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll: Pre-rock version. The main characters wow the Elizabethans with 1940s jazz.
* AnachronismStew: Walter Raleigh hasn't been knighted yet, which places the setting in 1585 or earlier, but the film isn't consistent about that:
** ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' is being performed, and Creator/WilliamShakespeare is writing ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Neither of those things happened until the 1590s.
** In 1585, John Smith was five years old, and {{UsefulNotes/Pocahontas}} was about ten years away from being born. Both are portrayed as adults.
* PuddleCoveringChivalry: Tommy steals this moment from Walter Raleigh.
* TimeMachine: Quite possibly, one of the earliest films to feature one. It's called the Time Ball, and it's a giant spherical craft that activates by flying into outer space. Incidentally, this means the movie's fictional protagonists beat UsefulNotes/YuriGagarin into space by almost twenty years. Or by more than three centuries, depending on your perspective.
* TimeTravelersAreSpies: The Professor is mistaken for a Scottish spy when he states that the Stuarts will succeed UsefulNotes/ElizabethI.
* TontoTalk: Pocahontas introduces herself by saying "how" as a greeting, and it goes from there.

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