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Willy McBean and His Magic Machine 1965

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 94 min

genre: science fiction

theme: animated

director: Arthur Rankin Jr.

Score: 2 / 10

Willy McBean and His Magic Machine is a 1965 stop motion animated time travel film produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass' Videocraft International (now Rankin/Bass Productions) in the United States and Dentsu Motion Pictures in Japan. It was presented by Marshall Naify, released by Magna Pictures Distribution Corporation on June 23, 1965.

Plot

Willy McBean is sick of trying to learn history for school. Meanwhile, an evil scientist called Rasputin Von Rotten is building a magical time machine so he can go back in time and be the most famous person in history. A Spanish-English talking monkey named Pablo climbs through Willy's window. He explains that he escaped from Von Rotten and he tells Willy what he is planning to do. Pablo stole the plans to the time machine.

Cast

person Larry D. Mann

More details

author	Arthur Rankin Jr.
contentLocation	England
director	Arthur Rankin Jr.
genre	science fiction western
keywords	american old west ancient egypt back in time battle of the little bighorn buffalo bill buffalo bill cody build camelot caveman christopher columbus colosseum control of fire by early humans discover fire dragon evil scientist excalibur george armstrong custer great pyramid great pyramid of giza history class indian kill king arthur machine movie projector native americans in the united states plan prehistoric times prehistory sitting bull talk the king time machine west wheel wild west
musicBy	Edward Thomas
producer	Arthur Rankin, Jr.
productionCompany	Dentsu Rankin/Bass Productions
publisher	Magna Pictures Distribution Corporation
theme	animated stop-motion animated