Under the Seas
Deux cent mille lieues sous les mers ou le cauchemar d'un pêcheur | |
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A scene from near the end of the film. | |
Directed by | Georges Méliès |
Based on |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne |
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Running time |
286 meters/930 feet[1] 18 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | silent film |
Under the Seas (French: Deux cent mille lieues sous les mers ou le cauchemar d'un pêcheur),[1] also known as Deux Cents Milles sous les mers[2] and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,[3] is a silent film made in 1907 by French director Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's company Star Film and is numbered 912–924 in its catalogues.[1] The film became one of the first color films when it was hand tinted, frame by frame, by female factory workers.[4]
The film, a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, follows a fisherman, Yves, who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean, where he encounters both realistic and fanciful sea creatures, including a chorus of naiads played by dancers from the Théâtre du Châtelet. Méliès's design for the film includes cut-out sea animals patterned after Alphonse de Neuville's illustrations for Verne's novel.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hammond, Paul (1974). Marvellous Méliès. London: Gordon Fraser. p. 145. ISBN 0900406380.
- ↑ Ezra, Elizabeth (2000). Georges Méliès. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 157. ISBN 0719053951. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
- ↑ Young, R. G. (1997). The encyclopedia of fantastic film: Ali Baba to Zombies. New York: Applause. p. 154. ISBN 1557832692. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
- ↑ Barnwell, Jane (2004). Production design: architects of the screen. Wallflower Press. p. 106. ISBN 1-903364-55-8.
- ↑ Hammond 1974, p. 64
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