Idaho Transfer

Idaho Transfer

Release Date:  6/15/1973
Country of Release:  USA
Length:  86 (90?) minutes
MPAA:  PG
Medium:  Video
Genre:  SF ADV DRA
Release Message:  Arthur (Keith Carradine) leads a crew of researchers who develop a method of traveling into the future, hoping to escape the apocalypse looming in their own time.
Description:  During a time of waning global resources, a crew of young researchers travel into the future to escape an apocalypse before the shutdown of their time transfer project. They find that some type of disaster has de-populated the Idaho region and, by implication, the nation or perhaps the world. Facing an unknown, barren future of abandoned towns and deserted vehicles; void of radio signals or any signs of air or land traffic, they encounter an abandoned freight train filled with bagged bodies. Their further discoveries of humanity's future fate is somewhat less than rosy. They also learn their time travel was not without significant costs to their own health. After one of the group travels further into the future, she encounters a family in a futuristic automobile; implying humankind has recovered from the disaster (or have they?) A crew of researchers develop a method of traveling into the future hoping to escape the apocalypse looming in their own time. But when the project is closed down some of them find themselves stranded in a desolate future landscape.