Time Travelers (1964 film)
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The Time Travelers is a 1964 movie starring Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, and Steve Franken, as well as John Hoyt.
Conducting an experiment to create a window to view through time, Dr. von Steiner (Foster), Dr. Connors (Carey) and White (Anders) are told by Danny (Franken) that they must shut down their use of power, but Danny discovers, mesmerized by the experiment, that the "window" is actually a portal, and he steps through it. When they begin to lose the steady hold, they must get Danny to come back, but he's distracted by something. All three step through to go get Danny, and just as they arrive back at the portal, an image of their lab in mid-air, the portal setting fails and disappears, stranding them permanently.
Mutants chase them into a cave, and there, they find the entrance to an underground city, all that is left of human civilization in the future. This city is building a spaceship to take them to a distant star where they will start over, and the scientists throw their lot in to help finish the ship and prepare for departure.
However, the mutants manage to penetrate the spaceship construction area, and ruin that option. Now, the scientists attempt to recreate their time travel experiment, and open the portal just as the mutants begin to enter the city. The original four travelers and some of the future inhabitants hop through the portal and one throws an object back at the equipment that damages the equipment and blots out the portal. They find they are on the university grounds, but time is moving extremely slowly.
The portal is on a view that is black, and they hurry across the room and pass through the portal.
The remainder of the movie is a repeat, in fast shots, of the entire movie so far, implying a repeating cycle, and it continues to repeat, faster and faster, implying some final cataclysmic result that twists time.
