This movie has as good a description of NLT as most scientific texts I have seen (1933). I hate to misquote it, but it has a beautiful description of the constancy of time.
The movie is basically about an Engish scientist who goes back in time to have sex with a cousin and then falls in love with someone else. What a very strange premise for a movie, but one which I think should be remade.
However, the description of NLT:
He describes to a modern (1933 modern) a description of non-linearity:
Imagine a man on a river who passes a tree. After he passes, the tree is still there. Imagine sitting in a field of clover nearby. The clover remains.
Then imagine flying over it all in an airplane. You can see the tree and the man in the clover.
Of course, to really show non-linearity the man in the plane would have to see the other person in the two different positions, but it is still a wonderfully strange movie.
It shows the most interesting discussion of how people from different times with different expressions would interact, but from a starnge perspective, post revolutionary and quoting Lincoln is the 1787 range. It is quite amusing in its use of expressions.
Amusingly the counterpart from 150 years before changed places with the character from the future, but the story of his presence is only shown through a few words of a maid and the occasion comment from someone else.
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