![]() "The Veldt", "The Concrete Mixer", "The Long Rain", "Zero Hour", and "Marionettes Inc." were adapted for the TV series The Ray Bradbury Theater. Technical Specs Duration 1h 43m Sound Mono Color Color (Technicolor) Theatrical Aspect Ratio 2. It presented adaptations of the stories "The Veldt", "The Long Rain" and "The Last Night of the World".Ī number of the stories, including "The Veldt", "The Fox and the Forest" (as "To the Future"), "Marionettes, Inc.", and "Zero Hour" were dramatized for the 1955-57 radio series X Minus One. Country United States Screenplay Information Based on the short stories 'The Veldt,' 'The Long Rain' and 'The Last Night of the World' by Ray Bradbury in his book The Illustrated Man (New York, 1951). The book was made into the 1969 The Illustrated Man, starring Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. All but one of the stories had been published previously elsewhere, although Bradbury revised some of the texts for the book's publication. ![]() ![]() The man's tattoos, allegedly created by a time-traveling woman, are individually animated and each tell a different tale. The unrelated stories are tied together by the frame device of "the Illustrated Man", a vagrant former member of a carnival freak show with an extensively tattooed body whom the unnamed narrator meets. ![]() It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. ![]()
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