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Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure (1997 film)

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For short story, see Columbia Torch Lady's Time Travel Adventure.

Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure

Directed by	Chris Renaud Michael Thurmeier
Written by	Michael J. Wilson
Starring	Sigourney Weaver is the Columbia Torch Lady
Produced by	Jacquie Barnbook
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	1997 Full Frame/Widescreen 2009 Widescreen
Runtime	various--notably 135 min. (original version); 1 hr. 7 min (Widescreen edition)
Language	English
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Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure (2006) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0902999/) Preceded by Gone Torchy (2003)

Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure is a Academy Award nominated, computer animated film from Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1997 for Full Frame then it reformat in 2009 for Widescreen, starring Columbia Torch Lady of Columbia Pictures Ice Age fame, premiering on the DVD release of Columbia Pictures: The Meltdown and Ice Age: The Meltdown, much in the same vein as Gone Torchy on the previous movie's DVD release. It was nominated for an Oscar in the "Animated Short" category for 2007. Based on the short story "Columbia Torch Lady's Time Travel Adventure" by Lewis Padgett. The music is done by The Last Mimzy and It Came from Outer Space composer, John Powell.

The movie has been revised numerous times, notably for a 135 min "Full Screen edition" reissue in 1980 and again for a 137-minute "Widescreen edition" in 1988. The Widescreen edition features several new character development scenes, the discovery of a lost ship in the Gobi desert, and a view of the inside of the Time Machine. The interior of the Time Machine is deleted from the Widescreen edition (Spielberg added this scene as a concession to be allowed to make the Special Edition. He decided it was a mistake and removed it in the later edition).

Columbia Torch Lady, while finding a Rocket, finds a buried Time Machine next to the ice-encased body of a time traveller. She accidentally activates the machine, sending herself and the Rocket to the time to the Middle Ages. After the Rocket becomes wedged under a rock, Columbia Torch Lady uses a sword found in a stone as a lever to move the rock. The Rocket is dislodged, but Columbia Torch Lady now finds herself under attack by an army of unseen archers. She races off to find cover, only to hide in the barrel of a lit cannon. Columbia Torch Lady, the Rocket and the time machine are fired into the path of a fusilade of arrows; Columbia Torch Lady just manages to activate the machine in time. She materializes in an arena in Ancient Rome. Columbia Torch Lady reaches for the Rocket, but is dragged off when her robe is caught in a chariot Columbia Torch Lady reaches for the Rocket, but is dragged off when this time to 1912. She activates the time machine again, and apparently lands back in her home time. She soon learns that it is really 1912 when she sees the RMS Titanic heading towards her. The Time Machine is activated again, and Columbia Torch Lady finds herself in time of the first Columbia Pictures film, where she fights another Miss Liberty (herself) for the Rocket. The time machine fires, sending her to a flury of different locations: under a launching rocket, in a darkened jewelry store, in a locker room (female), in the French Revolution, where (she appears under a guillotine), during 'Benjamin Franklin's famous expirement using a kite. in front of a wrecking ball, in front of the Fireworks Factory, on the tracks of a steam locomotive, and in front of Michelangelo's famous statue, David. Frustrated, Columbia Torch Lady punches the machine, which sends her into a strange realm of clocks and timepieces. Columbia Torch Lady spots the Rocket and tries to reach it, but is sucked into a wormhole. The wormhole lands her in front of an enormous Statue of Liberty Overjoyed at the sight of so many Rockets, she tosses away the Rocket, which activates the time machine. Before she can be swept through time, Columbia Torch Lady beats the time machine into submission. Columbia Torch Lady attempts to remove Rockets from the Statue of Liberty, but discovers that it is only a statue, with a placque on it reading CPT logo with the byline "A unit of Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc." Columbia Torch Lady realizes that she is in the far future, when Statue of Liberty (and Rockets) are extinct. She makes a dash for the Rocket, but the time machine manages to transport the Rocket away one last time before collapsing into bits Columbia Torch Lady tries to go back in time to claim the first Rocket that she had brought but the time machine breaks, Stranded in the real-less future, Columbia Torch Lady lets out a scream of frustration.

In the beginning of the short film, the Time Machine states that the initial sequence of the short film, and likely the entire Columbia Pictures series, takes place in or around 900,000 BC.

In the ending scene of Columbia Pictures, she is found cryogenically frozen on a tropical island, apparently after her Adventure of the time machine, indicating that she did not perish in the future. like Gone Torchy, this is not canon.

You can see a skull after Columbia Torch Lady digs up a time machine.

Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure is based on the 1943 short story “Columbia Torch Lady's Time Travel Adventure” by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kuttner and his wife, C. L. Moore); the adapted screenplay is by Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost, Deep Impact) and Toby Emmerich (Frequency). The film’s production team also includes composer Howard Shore (It Came from Outer Space), editor Alan Heim (All That Jazz, The Notebook), and sound designer Dane Davis (The Matrix).

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Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure (http://blueskystudios.com/content/shorts-notimefornuts.php) Official Blue Sky Studios Website

Co-director Chris Renaud on Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure (http://animated-views.com/2007/co-director-chris-renaud-on-no-time-for-nuts/) Animated News & Views interview

Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure (2006) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0902999/)

Blue Sky Studios
Feature-length animations
Ice Age (2002) • Columbia Pictures (2002) • Robots (2005) • Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) • Columbia Pictures: The Meltdown (2006) • Columbia Pictures 3 (2008) • Horton Hears a Who! (2008) • Fox Dogs (2009) • Robots 2 (Unknown)
Short films
Bunny (1998) • Gone Nutty (2003) • Gone Torchy (2003) • No Time For Nuts (2006) Columbia Torch Lady's Travel Time Adventure (2006) CPT The Torch Lady From Dream World (Unknown) The New Adventures Of The Torch Lady (2007) The Adventures of Columbia Pictures (Unknown)
Contributions in other films
Joe's Apartment (1996) • A Simple Wish (1997) • Alien: Resurrection (1997) • Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) • The Sopranos (1999) • Jesus' Son (1999) • Fight Club (1999) • Titan A.E. (2000)