On 2/23/06, Henry Taylor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Apologies for cross-posting.

Thanks again to all who made suggestions as to films and literature on this
fascinating topic.

Below is a compilation of the films/tv episodes and popular literature
suggested featuring some form of time-loop, keeping in ming my question
aimed at pre-1945 examples:

Literature on the subject:

Christine Gallagher: "Undoing." In: Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne
Hirsch (eds.): TIME AND THE LITERARY. Routledge, 2002.

Films:

"All a dream" films from the earliest days of cinema

arguably the pre-1945 films of H. G. Wells' books "The Island of Dr. Moreau"
(1896), "The Invisible Man" (1897), and "The First Men on the Moon" (1901)

SHOULDER ARMS (Charlie Chaplin, US 1918)
DESTINY/DER MUEDE TOD (Fritz Lang, Germany 1921)
WAXWORKS/DAS WACHSFIGURENKABINETT (Paul Leni, Germany 1924)
THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (Lothar Mendes, UK 1936)
THE HALFWAY HOUSE (Basil Dearden, UK 1944)
DEAD OF NIGHT (Cavalcanti/Crichton/Dearden/Hamer, UK 1945)
BLIND CHANCE/PRZYPADEK (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland 1982)
STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT (Jonathan Frakes, US 1996)
RUN LOLA RUN/LOLA RENNT (Tom Tykwer, Germany 1998)
SLIDING DOORS (Peter Howitt, UK/US 1998)
MEMENTO (Christopher Nolan, US 2000)

TV episodes:

ANGEL, 5th season: unspecified episode
SEAQUEST DSV: unspecified episode featuring Moebius-strip narrative
STARGATE SG-1: unspecified episode featuring Moebius-strip narrative
STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: "Cause and Effect"

All five STAR TREK series (Star Trek, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise)

Time loop in popular literature:

Stephen King: THE DARK TOWER

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