L. Howe Frank Cole David Beckham Jerry Brown Production The Yesterday Machine is a regional movie, following film historian Brian Albright's definition. Regional films in general "were conceived, produced and often distributed entirely in corners of the country not typically associated with the entertainment industry - from the backwoods of Utah to the bayous of Louisiana to the outer boroughs of New York. Made with little regard to genre convention, or in some cases even any basic knowledge of filmmaking, by the 1970s" - when The Yesterday Machine was still playing in drive-in theatres - "these regional indies were at the vanguard of horror cinema." Such horror and science fiction films were made on low budgets and usually with production crews and actors who were local to the shooting location, in this case, in and around Dallas TX. The movie was partly filmed at the Studio Recording Office in Dallas, a business run by NIck Nicholas, the film's music director. While several sources date the film to 1963, Bryan Senn gives it a date of 1965 and Albright, in his introduction to an interview with Marker, says 1966. The automobile enthusiast users of the Internet Movie Cars Database dispute the 1963 date, having spotted in the film a 1964 Rambler American, a 1964 Ford Galaxie 500, and a 1965 Dodge Dart. Prints of the film show an undated copyright to Carter Films. Marker told Albright in an interview that he got the idea for The Yesterday Machine shortly after World War II from reading press reports of Nazi super-weapons that had been planned but never built. He described the script as speculating about what might have happened if one of the super-weapons had been a time-travel device and had actually been made. Besides writing the script - as well as producing and directing the film - Marker also wrote the lyrics to "Leave Me Alone," which Pellegrino sings on-camera during the nightclub sequence. In the same interview, Marker said that the film was financed by several millionaires of his acquaintance, all World War II veterans, who "thought it was a damn good idea for a movie." As for himself, Marker said that he made "a few thousand dollars" from The Yesterday Machine. Release The Yesterday Machine was released on 3 June 1965. Distribution According to Albright, the film received "limited distribution" by Interstate Theaters, a Dallas-based chain of movie theatres.