The sequence starts at the top with the New York Public Library lion, then the science lab (represented from the most recent unwatchable movie version) set in a science lab kit box; the next three "scenes" are set within library card catalog file drawers: the "current" intact library of The Time Traveller, the actual "time machine", the library far in the future turned to dust; and lastly, the gears and motors are representing the Morlock level at the base below