Welcome to Everytown

By: Hannah Proctor

The sci-fi film Things to Come debuted just before World War II. It was all too prophetic in its portrait of a society destroyed and then rebuilt by advanced technology.

Fictional city of 'Everytown' in Things to Come (Photo by Bettman / Getty Images)

Based on H. G. Wells’s 1933 science-fiction novel and released just three years before Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, Things to Come opens at Christmastime in Everytown, a city closely resembling London that is on the brink of world war. A montage moves quickly through the ensuing years, during which conflict continues to […]

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Based on H. G. Wells’s 1933 science-fiction novel and released just three years before Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, Things to Come opens at Christmastime in Everytown, a city closely resembling London that is on the brink of world war. A montage moves quickly through the ensuing years, during which conflict continues to […]

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Based on H. G. Wells’s 1933 science-fiction novel and released just three years before Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, Things to Come opens at Christmastime in Everytown, a city closely resembling London that is on the brink of world war. A montage moves quickly through the ensuing years, during which conflict continues to […]

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Based on H. G. Wells’s 1933 science-fiction novel and released just three years before Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, Things to Come opens at Christmastime in Everytown, a city closely resembling London that is on the brink of world war. A montage moves quickly through the ensuing years, during which conflict continues to […]

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