After escaping from their high-tech city, Logan and Jessica travel through the wilderness. They make their way to Ancient Washington. Key monuments in the cityscape hold our attention in the screen, from early on in the sequence.

The Washington Monument and the Capitol:

As in John Christopher's The White Mountains, the protagonists (see Overgrown Cities: Twentieth Century Versions) stumble across a graveyard.



The Lincoln Memorial:

The U.S. Capitol Building:

In what was the Senate chamber, they encounter a denizen of the Capitol ...



... who has appropriated a gavel for a more prosaic purpose than enforcing the rules of the Senate.




All images/ stills (c) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1976.