I just noticed that the “Twel- Twelve-O-Seven” was because James already knew what time it was, and instinctively said it but realised he had to look at the clock for appearances. Great attention to detail.

The look of terror on the dogs face as he watches himself run up was the best part of the movie. Give that pup the Oscar!

Full detailed Explanation: This is one timeline. We see people exist at the same time temporarily but in the end, only one of each character exist. Prestory: Howard built the time machine and James comes with a fake funding letter to convince Howard from stopping the project and to steal the invention (because Howards is better). Perspective Howard: 11:04 Start of the scene. To show his invention Howard goes into the time machine and becomes Howard#1. 11:59 Girl in Bathtub, Howard#1 shows up and goes slowly back, he reaches the house by 12:07. 12:07 Howard#1 sees the dead Howard#3, James#2 explains that Howard#2 killed Howard#3 and talks him into using the time machine again. Howard#1 becomes Howard#2. 12:02 Ring in Pool, Howard#2 runs back to the house and reaches there by 12:05. 12:05 He comes into the room, asks James (who doesn't know a thing) who will be killed and shoots out of panic at Howard#3. Then he uses the time machine at becomes Howard#3. 12:00 Howard#3 lands on the bed, runs back to his house, realizes his mistake, and gets killed by Howard#2 at 12:05. 12:05 Howard#3 (the final) is sadly dead. Perspective James: 12:04 Start of scene. James sees Howard jump into the time machine. 12:05 Directly after that, Howard#2 runs in, asks who will be killed, shoots Howard#3 out of panic and goes into the time machine again. 12:06 James (thinking that Howard is dead) takes the power source and drives away. 12:07 James#2 stops him and makes him bring the power back and hide behind the time machine. Howard#1 comes in and James#2 convinces him to use the time machine again. 12:08 James goes into the time machine and becomes James#2. 12:03 James#2 runs out of the house to stop James from driving away, he reaches there by 12:06. 12:06 James#2 brings the power source back (James just watches) 12:07 James#2 convinces Howard#1 (who comes running in and sees the dead Howard#3) to use the time machine again (so that he would kill himself) 12:08 James#2 sends James into the time machine. 12:09 James#2 (the final) drives away with the power source. Chronological: 11:59 Howard#1 arrives at bathtub 12:00 Howard#3 arrives at bed 12:02 Howard#2 arrives at pool 12:03 James#2 arrives somewhere. 12:04 James meets Howard at his house. (Howard uses the time machine.) 12:05 James sees Howard#2 kill Howard#3. (Howard#2 uses the time machine.) 12:06 James takes power source and meets James#2, they go back to the house. 12:07 Howard#1 meets James#2. (Howard#1 uses the time machine.) 12:08 (James uses the time machine.) 12:09 James#2 leaves with the power source.

Why did I take 11 years to find such a channel? An absolutely fantastic short film. I think I know what to do with that rainy afternoon

"What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant."

When you've got 25 points of intelligence, but only 8 points in Wisdom.

I love to finally see a character that isnt crazy, that is logical enough to not only not act on impulse, but plan its actions trough time travel and also logical enough to collaborate with himself, i dont care that it is the villain

The twist is. The time being stolen is actually ours. Mind blown🤯

Stephen Hawking "If time travel would be possible we already have visitors from the future".

But why the hell would he go back in time to avoid his own "death" when he is actually alive?

The writer of this must be a genius for comprehending this in their imagination

I like how people complain that you have to add the earth's movement in space to the rotation. But if you ignore this and Howard just has to run back the distance to his house that he made through 5 minutes of our world's rotation, that means in the video he is actually able to run 993 miles per hour (1598 km/h). RESPECT.

To the people who keep arguing that "time traveling to the past is impossible" and "this is unrealistic" and stuff like that. I say to you sir/mam it's just a film. It's supposed to be like that.

Wow! This blew my mind. Only thing I would bring up is the Earth is not only spinning but traveling quickly through space in orbit around the sun. Assuming Howard is transported to the exact same location, 5 mins may have been enough to transport Howard somewhere high in the sky, deep down in the Earth, in an ocean or other country, or worse in outer space!

11:15 "I'm such an idiot" Finally a clever thought coming out of his brain.

Suddenly I'm actually binging fan made short films that involve time travel and time loops.

Travelling five minutes back in time without also moving through space would leave you NINE THOUSAND KILOMETRES from your starting point based upon the orbital velocity of Earth (not even taking into account the solar galactic orbit or the galaxy's own velocity, which would multiply that distance). Given that it's the middle of the day, and assuming that his own inertia is unchanged, he would find himself floating in darkness, and would have a few scant seconds to marvel at the stars before he passed out (and thereafter rapidly expired). He'd deserve it anyway - someone who can build a time machine but (1) tests it first on his dog rather than an inanimate object (evidenced by his lack of anticipation of the results), (2) looks for the dog inside the box even though he's just sent it back in time (meaning it would have appeared in the box before he started, and the box would now be empty), (3) does not consider the consequences of time travel without moving through space, and (4) can't put the sequence of observed events into an order that makes logical sense before running to his own death (and even shoots himself in order to prevent himself from shooting himself, but forgets he did so as he runs back in through the same door) is simply too stupid to live. He'd be too stupid to build a time machine, in fact. o.O

This must have been confusing to edit. Great film.

This short film is great becuase its ALL the time travel paradoxes mixed up into one very realistic short film ! Well done! If this where real, the loop would go on forever...

I love the props, stereo equipment and a 1980's Prometheus 1200 baud modem.

Following the film logic here are the instructions to build the time machine: 1. Collect a lot of electronic equipment. 2. Connect the equipment randomly until the future you visits you and tells you that the machine is working and you should use it to tell the past you that is working. 3. Profit.

As long as the rotation of the Earth is being taken into account, so does the movement of the solar system and the movement of the galaxy. Time travelers would end up out in space :)

I'm trying to figure out if this runs up the electric bill multiple times or if it only charges the electric bill once.

I love how they use current, low tech-ish devices to make this high techie thing. A proximitor housing, a thermo bulb from a switch, the indicator window on a valve positioner etc. kind of funny in it's own way.

Sci-fi technology always requires flashing lights.

You really stole MY time on this one. These 17 minutes just felt like 5 minutes!!

this short is a masterpiece of a time paradox. I guess that's why Dr. Brown never wanted the time machine to fall into the wrong hands

Start the video with the most adorable dogs ever. You have my full attention

absolutely love the scarf. Its trapped in an endless loop. That simple exchange made each of the infinite scarves shift ownership one over to the previous version.

1. If Jim haven't been there Howard would still have been alive. So, there must have been a third Jim who told the first Jim to go to Howard with a that exact suitcase. 2. And also, if Jim figures out that Howard will know that he has stolen the time machine, So there must have been a timeline in which Howard didn't die and Catches Jim for stealing the time machine but some how Jim still manages to use it to create this new time line in which he didn't get caught. Thus at least one time travelling instance is missing from this short film.

7:00 That man's so cool. Like "Two of you came, one shot another and just back in box and disappeared again"

i remember seeing this movie several years ago, it was a huge inspiration even then

It’s at times like these I like to remember that all time is happening all the time. Just because you’re not in the same time as someone else, doesn’t mean that other time isn’t going forward.

If you want to travel two minutes later, just wait two minutes... 🤣🤣

This does NOT seem like a video that woulda been made 12 years ago... Such high quality for such an old youtube video.

Cute Dachshund!

I didn’t do anything you disappeared two more of you burst in one of you shot the other one lmao 😂 that sounds like such a rick and morty scene

The least plausible part is that someone in Southern California would be wearing a jacket and scarf in the daytime.

I like the way it starts with _two_ dogs, even before one of them has time traveled. Kinda lets one know what they are in for. :)

Young seth McFarland made some good decisions after this. He went on to skip the plane, become a talent powerhouse and has been set for life financially for a while. Good on him.

My brain hurts........

Travelling back in time by a few minutes is just ASKING for trouble from your other selves.

This was simultaneously the most confusing and amazing short that I’ve ever watched.

But how did the rival already have the perfect container to keep it in when he showed up unaware of time travel? Makes me wonder what he already changed before the start of the video.

Kudos to the props department...I mean, when I picture someone who is able to put together a machine that can manipulate time, I think, "Yeah, that guys keeps his high school physics textbook close by"

This is incredible! The temporal causality loop is my favorite kind of paradox, because it seems to be the only logical kind. I'm glad you didn't use the BTTF kind of paradox, where everything slowly changes. A timeline this complex takes tact and intelligence to conceive, so bravo to you!

This film really shows how time travel would work. If you go back you won’t be able to prevent anything from happening. You would only be able to see it happen again.

I didn’t completely understand all of the time jumping, but I completely enjoyed this anyway.

I am a simple man. I see Joey Tribbiani. I click.

This is literally the perfect time traveling movie

Awesome film; professional shot - extremely well acted - great locations and sets. LOVE it!!

The things you can make out of old printers and scanners is pretty amazing!

Just adding my two cents and three words to the overzealous time travel experts: "Suspension of Disbelief" That was a fun ride! Kudos to the filmmaker!

I really like how an over-looping time re-going line can be told using a linear time line.

Ok, here is my sequence. Jim#1 goes to Howard#1's house to "prank" him about the funding, and then Howard#1 jumps into the time machine to "prove" that it works. All of a sudden, Howard#2 pops into the garage through the same door Jim#1 just came in asking if "he's the one that gets shot?" and then Howard#3 comes into the garage through a side door, and Howard #2 panics and shoots him. Jim#1 is in shock and asking, "What is happening" and then trying to tell Howard #2 to stop and that he was just joking about the funding. Jim#1 has a conscious and is actually really scared at this point. Anyway, Howard#2 is babbling about having to go back to save himself and he keeps saying, "remember?" to Jim#1 and Jim#1 really truly has NO IDEA what Howard#2 is talking about. Remember, Howard has already been looping in his timeline, so he has already been with the "other" Jim. So Jim#1 has just witnessed that the time machine works and decides to steal it, but as he drives away, trying to "balance" the globe on his lap, (I'm guessing) he remembers that when Howard#3 comes back, he will notice the globe is missing and Howard's time loop will stop. This is the moment he makes his plan to keep Howard's time loop going. Or in other words, "kill him". He realizes he has to get back before Howard #3 pops into the garage so that he can trick Howard#3 to go save Howard#4.. So he gets an empty case for the globe, drives back to Howards house, jumps into the time machine to create a Jim#2 who runs out and stops Jim#1 from driving away and brings him back just in time for Howard#3 to pop in. Jim#2 has Jim#1 hide behind the desk and acts out what Jim#1 has to say in order to keep all Howards in the time loop. Howard#3 now thinks this is the first time he's come back to the garage, so Jim#2 lies to Howard about Howard "killing himself" so he better go back and save himself. Then Jim#2 steals the globe and that's the end of the story. Jim#1 goes back and becomes Jim#3 who teaches the ORIGINAL Jim what to say to Howard. So Howard's time loop is him going back in time, seeing himself get killed, coming back to Jim in the garage, and Jim telling him to go back to save himself, and then becoming his own victim. Jim's timeline now just has a "hiccup" of him going back in time to teach the next Jim what to say to Howard#3 and then Jim's timeline carries on as usual. Accept he gets all the glory! BTW, when Jim#2 forgot to give Jim#1 his scarf back, every time a Jim goes back, he has to take the original Jim's scarf when he acts out the scene for the Jim behind the desk to learn. This is the only way I can make sense of it. Now I'm going to think about Howard's perspective and why he didn't catch on to it. Like when he saw himself with the pink flamingo and running ahead or when Jim kept saying, " I have no idea what you are talking about!?" I haven't really followed the actual minutes, so I'm guessing Howard just got mixed up which Howard was ahead of him and which one was behind. Boy, I really loved this film and have watched it about 3 times in full, and lots of snippets. The actors were really good too!

When the future is in the past and the past in the future. Messed up. Brilliant.

Honestly one of the best short films I've ever seen. Why can't there be more like this on KZfaq?

I love all the talk about the impossibility of time travel and the paradoxes..... I just watched a made up story about made up science and made up paradoxes and made up rotation of the sun and universe....... and, Was entertained - I think that is the absolute point!

CERN employee during Covid-19 lockdown good times!! Lol 😆

And the best actor award goes to . . . Mollie! A masterful performance that outshines the two legs.

Last guy got out of time loop and the inventor is still stucked in it.

Everytime the excitement makes the inventor more complex thoughtful

For this to come out “8 years ago” this is nice quality!

The problem with time travel is that not only do you have to travel through time, but also through space. Space and Time are interwoven.

Him: smart enough to create a time machine. Also him: keeps a bunch of opened drinks on the table that's right beside the computer and the wires that are connected to the time machine.

I don't always time-travel, but when i do... I start spraying bullets on my clones as soon as i spot them.

Why it is always necessary to put time on loop when it comes to time travel , can't other theory come in existence !

Love time travel stories. DUST doesn’t have enough of them.

In other comments, observations are noted regarding whether or not time travelers would end up in space, conflicts of spatial events, and so forth. Let 'em go, guys. If you're going to suspend belief enough to play with the five-minute time-bounce to create the looping effect, just enjoy the story for its own cleverly designed sequence of amusements. Most sci-fi of this sort is "soft science," which means that certain elements are included while others are ignored, all for the sake of enjoying the story. Let it be fun! Within the parameters set by the story (not by scientific fact), it works, and works well. Kudos to the creators for a delightful, well-produced bit of temporal shenanigans!

I struggle to believe that someone who was clever enough to invent a time machine would be stupid enough to do that. That was still awesome though :D

Ahhh it warms my soul when the baddies win

This was thoroughly enjoyable because of the complexity.

Would killing another version of yourself count as suicide, homicide, or both?

Well, this is a coincidence. I randomly am watching this on July 1, 2019. 🤔

Best time travel story to date. Ppl power over anything else is such a great analogy for the modern world

Can we take a moment to fully appreciate the detail that this writer made for this story? As it seems that I haven't seen anyone else point out this important detail yet....cuz JAMES GOT AWAY WITH IT. Let me break down my reasoning for this. When we first meet James, he has an empty case with an odd shaped hole. You can tell that James is slightly confused at the empty case when he opens it. This implies a lack of understanding of the later used purpose for the case. He ultimately figures it out...but leaves the question: Why does James have it if its empty? More importantly, why does he have it? Why was he on the way to Howard's house? The most logical reasoning I have for it is that (since this is all time travel related) that he ultimately gave it to himself...secretly. After this course of events with Howard and himself, Howard would take this to the "board" and ultimately get the device more thoroughly developed. Sometime after it is fully developed James would realize that had he not gotten the case and told to be at Howard's house at that time, he wouldn't have the time machine. So, James would go back in time and send himself the empty case, possibly with a note or something ambiguous as at the past James was unaware of the existence of time travel altogether. This last action of meddling with his own timeline follows true on the whole method of time travel in the film which was using the whole "do something because I already did it" concept of time travel. This sequence of likely suspicious events would lead the past James back to where he was and hence starting this short film. I really love the concept of time travel and appreciate it when there are hints at complex themes. The writers for this did an amazing job and really deserve some praise for not only making something entertaining with a bit of depth. This film allows even laymen of scifi to be able to understand and appreciate the complexity of time travel. This also really hit the spot for me as the empty case really shows the intelligence and depth of this piece.

Good and straight forward time travel with only one timeline which you get to know better and better as the film progresses. It's the Harry Potter approach to time travel. I like it.

I guess these guys even made an original sound track for this film! With a small orchestra no less! I love how the ticking of a clock is embedded in the score. Well done!

Me, getting a parking ticket: “Wait! I can fix this “

They are in time loop which will never end

If this were real he would've ended up in space

Entertaining, clever and thought provoking. Something that many major motion pictures lack nowadays.

I can't believe how many time travel short films there are.

I'm so glad this video accounts for space aswell as time, I always imagined as a kid that a time machine would leave you in space since the earth would be how ever much time behind where you were when you traveled through time.

Been on a short film frenzy the last week, must have watched hundreds so far...this was excellent! I shared it and subscribed.

There's one flaw... how does the bad guy know to bring a box with the exact size hole for the device???

And I’m back….I saw this film years ago and tried to remember the name. I love time travel.

this is the first piece of media THAT I SEEN that factored in the rotation of the earth with time travel

Hey, I'm here from 2087, just came here to enjoy the old days of youtube

This was an excellent work, and the only minor letdown was the lack of a solid ending. I think a lot of well-made shorts are actually concept films for either full-length movies or tv shows. It’s a shame that these well-made shorts can’t just have an ending. That wouldn’t stop it being made into a movie or TV show. THX-1138 started out as George Lucas’ film school project, and it was made into a pretty cool movie.

Watching this video twice consecutively feels like just going back in time.

The only hole in the short film (ignoring the discussion about 5 minutes and the location in space) for me, is that after he goes back in time into a pool and kills himself, he goes back again and he's not wet anymore.

Did anyone else go, "Awwwww." When the dog showed up?

I need a full series on this episode alone..... The same for the other episodes!

Beam me back to the 80's I will be more than satified.

Love it.. he thinks he's getting closer & closer to resolution but... ☝🏾🤣

This was GENIUS! Sad that it didn't get more views.

This short is pure genius! We need a sequel!! I love it!

Dude, this is literally one of the best short films I've seen, or any film. Also one of the best depictions of time travel.

Predetermined time travel with a closed loop. Rarely seen in Time Travel.