Of course, the grand-daddy of all time-travel stories is The Time Machine by H.G Wells, in which a nameless scientist invents a complex series of gears, rods, and levers, which enables him to travel to  the distant future, where he sees the eventual fate of the human race.  He meets a charming female named Weena, who in the book, is somehing like a child or a chimp, a semi-intelligent pet of the Time Traveller.  In the film, Weena is played by Yvette Mimieux, certainly no chimp, who manages to look impossibly pretty, impossibly sexy, and impossibly innocent a