Certainly, there are a number of ways of doing that trick. Any magician at the hippodrome could probably do it.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:20:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- What would you become? A Greek? A Roman? One of the Pharaohs?
- You're not seriously saying you can do it?
- You saw the experiment this afternoon, didn't you?
- Would you like to see the full-scale model?
- You're carrying on like Hillyer and Kemp now.
- There is something to say about their common-sense attitude to life.
[...]