Google logo mystery is HG Wells tribute

[snopes]

The mystery of why Google has adopted strange logos on its home page for the last month has finally been solved.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...s-tribute.html

[BamaRainbow]

To me, the real mystery is why Google would think anybody gives a crap?
I mean, certainly, who in his/her right mind would've ever expected honoring someone on (what would've been) his 143rd birthday?

[BrianB]

21 September 2009 Guardian article:

HG Wells's books have been hits on the big screen almost since cinema began. But which is the best?

I agree with the author's choices of The Island of Lost Souls, The Invisible Man, and The Time Machine (1960 version) but I would also add Things to Come, which is my favorite H.G. Wells adaptation, and The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Also, I completely disagree with this comment:

If we count George Méliès's evergreen A Trip to the Moon (1902) as the first Wells-inspired film, then one might argue that the history of the HG Wells cinema adaptation is almost as old as the history of cinema itself.

I think that movie is clearly inspired by Jules Verne, not by H.G. Wells.
Brian

[llewtrah]

Originally Posted by BrianB

I think that movie is clearly inspired by Jules Verne, not by H.G. Wells.

I understood it to be inspired by Wells' The First Men in the Moon

imdb reviews on A Trip to the Moon state it drew inspiration from both Verne and Wells.

story, which Méliès based on Jules Verne's De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon), first published in 1865, and parts of H.G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon, first published in 1901.

Part of A Trip to the Moon was reused in Things to Come which is based on Wells' novel (and Wells wrote the screenplay).