Under the Seas

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Deux cent mille lieues sous les mers ou le cauchemar d'un pêcheur

A scene from near the end of the film.
Directed by Georges Méliès
Based on Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 
by Jules Verne
Release dates
  • 1907 (1907)
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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hammond, Paul (1974). Marvellous Méliès. London: Gordon Fraser. p. 145. ISBN 0900406380. 
  2. Ezra, Elizabeth (2000). Georges Méliès. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 157. ISBN 0719053951. Retrieved 4 July 2013. 
  3. Young, R. G. (1997). The encyclopedia of fantastic film: Ali Baba to Zombies. New York: Applause. p. 154. ISBN 1557832692. Retrieved 4 July 2013. 
  4. Barnwell, Jane (2004). Production design: architects of the screen. Wallflower Press. p. 106. ISBN 1-903364-55-8. 
  5. Hammond 1974, p. 64

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