20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) [Silent Movie] [Adventure] [Science Fiction]
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- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. It also incorporates elements from Verne's The Mysterious Island. This version is notable for its groundbreaking work in underwater photography by the brothers George M. Williamson and J. Ernest Williamson. Actual underwater cameras were not used, but a system of watertight tubes and mirrors allowed the camera to shoot reflected images of underwater scenes staged in shallow sunlit waters.
The film was made by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company (now Universal Pictures), not then known as a major motion picture studio. Yet in 1916, they financed this film's innovative special effects, location photography, large sets, exotic costumes, sailing ships, and full-size navigable mock-up of the surfaced submarine Nautilus. Hal Erickson has said that "the cost of this film was so astronomical that it could not possibly post a profit, putting the kibosh on any subsequent Verne adaptations for the next 12 years." On May 4, 2010, a new print of the film was shown accompanied by live performance of an original score by Stephin Merritt at the Castro Theatre, as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.
The movie is about a strange giant "sea creature" which has been rampaging the seas. The American naval ship Abraham Lincoln is sent to investigate, but is rammed by "the creature" which turns out to be The Nautilus, the fantastic submarine of the enigmatic Captain Nemo, and "Rudderless, the "Abraham Lincoln" drifts on". Then, in "A strange rescue" he guides the sub to surface under those pitched overboard and his crew take them, including Professor Aronnax, and his daughter (who are French) below through a hatch in the surface of the deck. After they pledge not to escape, Nemo shows them the wonders of the underwater world, and even takes them hunting on the sea floor.
Meanwhile, soldiers in a runaway Union Army Balloon are marooned on a mysterious island not far from the submarine. They find a wild girl living alone on the island ("a child of nature"). The yacht of Charles Denver arrives at the island. A former Indian colonial officer, he has been haunted by the ghost of a woman (Princess Daaker) that he attacked years ago; she stabbed herself rather than submit to him. He fled with her young daughter and then abandoned the child on the island. The long-tormented Denver has returned to see what became of her. One of the Union soldiers schemes and kidnaps the wild girl onto Denver's yacht. Another soldier swims aboard to rescue her. At the same time, Nemo discovers that the yacht belongs to Denver, the enemy he has been seeking all these years. The Nautilus destroys the yacht with a torpedo, but the girl and her rescuer are saved from the water by Captain Nemo.
In elaborate flashback scenes to India, Nemo reveals that he is Prince Daaker, and that he created the Nautilus to seek revenge on Charles Denver. He is overjoyed to discover that the abandoned wild girl is his long-lost daughter, but his emotion is such that he expires. His loyal crew bury him at the ocean bottom. They disband and the Nautilus is left to drift to its own watery grave.
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Directed by Stuart Paton, produced by Carl Laemmle, written by Jules Verne (novel) and Stuart Paton, starring Lois Alexander, Curtis Benton, Wallace Clarke, Allen Holubar and Jane Gail.
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Source: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film)" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 10 June 2013. Web. 16 July 2013. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20,000_L....
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Jules Verne is ahead of its time when it comes to writing stories including science fiction, he pioneered it.
This shows a good side of CZcams: allowing us to watch gems like this.
Got to see this I the theatres this week for a "Silent Sunday" showing. Such a treat!
I know Captain Nemo is supposed to look menacing, but to me he looks a little bit like Santa Claus.
I'm afraid by the end of the picture he is all washed up
Nemo wasn’t a mad scientist. Ultimately he was a mad politician!! All he wanted was peace in this world inspite of the fact he had a lot of wrong done to him!!!🤔
I thought he looked like Willie Nelson, wearing a cheap mall santa outfit.
To me, Captain Nemo looked like an overly tanned skinny Santa Claus.
And to think there was no special effects back then! Everything was just how it was. Awesome movie! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you SO much for uploading this B&W classic! Appreciated very much, a real joy.
This was an extremely impressive (albeit very expensive) production for the time period. And it surprisingly still looks VERY good even today (even if the story and screenplay weren't that great compared to the original book.)
I love this.
Over 100 years...
These people would have lost their shit if we sent back a terrible Transformers movie.
So true! Our worst CGI would be incredible to them ahah
Such a treat to get to see this classic. Enjoyed it very much and thanks loads for putting it out there for everyone to enjoy~!!!
This was shot in the same location used for 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA thirty-eight years later.
Thanks for these movies you upload . I know it takes time and effort and it is much appreciated . Well done !!
Thank you! Love to watch classic b/w movies.
Thank you for posting this, and for the information about the making of the movie.
This background music was written back in 1868 but seems to fit well here. Jules would have been 40 years old when Saint-Saens wrote this music which could only reach to 30 min. in.
I think the music is the New World Symphony, by Antonín Dvořák in 1893.
old fan it’s both, Saint-Saens Organ Symphony at the opening and then Dvorak later in
first time to watched a SILENT MOVIE , and it was great...
+Pit Maningat If you enjoyed this allow me to suggest: "The General" with Buster Keaton. Likely you will find it in the list of suggested titles to the right of this post. It is beautifully done. Buster did all of his own stunts by the way and there were no tricks or special effects.
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Fantastic for 1914 or the 70'or beyond .
Thanks for the historic post. Although this film suffers from the same malaise as many revived silent films with a relentless musical score that seems to have nothing to do with the action on screen.
Well, this is not ahistoric, actually. As several authors on silent film in Germany, the Netherlands (see Houten 1992), Great Britain (see Brown/Davison 2013), Japan (see Shuhei 2014) etc. have shown, film projections were often accompanied by some kind of concert performance of music. Contrary to the ideal musical accompaniment we can read about in contemporary trade jounalism, musicians (and audiences) did not always care about synchronism or a close relationship between sound and image. Quite often music even played the major role, as cinema functioned as a concert hall or films were projected during the intervals of music hall, opera performances, etc. Thus, film projections sometimes simply served as lose visual accompaniment. The silent cinema soundscape was indeed much more diverse and even random than we'd like to think.
@@diesalonniere7227 A scholarly approach indeed, though these revival presentations will still scare away would-be initiates to silent films when the viewing remains painful. On the other hand, I guess newbies can always turn off the soundtrack and listen to "Dark Side of the Moon" during the film.
Indeed. It will always be a challenge to satisfy newbies and specialists at the same time. Therefore, I think we need to be very open-minded and accept a variety of possible accompaniments-even those that result into what K.J. Donnelly once called "silent films for people who don't like silent films" 😅. The important thing is to get people interested in and fascinated by this very particular and divers film culture. 🎬
I love this movie
19:14 This is my favorite shot of the movie.
Filmed in black and.. black :)
It took 73 takes to get it right.
super
If you have not seen that many silent films please check out anything with Lon Cheney in it or a Melies from the movie Hugo if you wish to see what Disney would have been had he been in Paris back in the day brilliant magician and film maker his sets par excellence.
Reepacheirp firewalker Silent films can be awesome. My faves are Faust 1926 and Metropolis 1927. I LOVE George melies work to, he was a genius for visual effects.
METROPOLIS - the ultimate silent movie (in my opinion) . czcams.com/video/-I9FD21k7Cs/video.html
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Can you upload Metropolis?
They just left the black boy on the island! 😂 What the heck?! No man gets left behind!! 😢
A qui appartiennent les droits de ce film ? où trouver une copie ?
By now it is probably in the public domain.
Prince of Rizal films are very hard to find since they're flammable in nature.
Sometimes multiple copies can be edited together good together a better version.
They were short of able to do this with Metropolis.
I wanted to upload this movie but youtube siad it was taken down across the tube.
Given that it's public domain, anyone can do it. So just look it up on internetarchive(.org), verify its PD status and download your very own 4-free copy in the format of your choice. And then do whatever you want with it, hopefully something nice. Maybe add some new music. Although don't expect YT to respect the fact that anything is PD. YT together with the ADREV pirates are forever lodging false copyright infringement claims against channels in order to coerce them into agreeing to monetize videos for the sole benefit of the ADREV scammers. Every time I upload a work by Erik Satie (my own performances, all clearly PD works) YT and the ADREV scammers auto-attack me with a scammingly wrongful and inaccurate accusation. Which I have to proactively fight or automatically forfeit. But every time they lose. Dishonest YT is sleazily coercing countless thousands of channels in this manner. What a bunch of self-evidently creepy untrustworthy greedy morally retarded intelligence community bullies. Why lie?
Vive Verne! And vive Satie! czcams.com/video/JVJy-GOm_H8/video.html
@@davidw.montague5376 thank you 🙏
@@davidw.montague5376 YT does the same to me
This version seems to be missing the octopus scene (at around 59 minutes in other versions).
You'll regret those words and phrases
Featuring music from The New World Symphony by Beethoven, this film combines Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea with Mysterious Island while uncannily adhering to Jules Verne's original story-lines. In his fur-fringed suit, a slimmed down less than jolly secret Santa aka "Captain Nemo" travels the seas in his underwater sleigh, the Nautilus, elfese for Naughty-list. Santa sends the marooned men a chest containing nothing but firearms and women's underwear. Meanwhile Santa's daughter and Victoria's Secret model on sabbatical, dressed in an alluring leopard skin one-piece, tirelessly practices her modern interpretive dance routines with the hope of someday sharing the stage with Isadora Duncan. czcams.com/video/oaFZbhbcft0/video.html Jealous of her beauty and grace, the ugliest man on the island Shanghais Santa's daughter to Bob Denver, whose boat, the S.S. Minnow, has been chartered for a three hour tour. Santa saves the day by torpedoing the S.S. Minnow. The end. Thank you for watching. Learn more about the Godfather of toe-violin: czcams.com/video/nAXqszfwLNQ/video.html
Thank you for that impressively accurate and well balanced review.
I think the music is Saint Sains C minor organ symphony, also used n the movie “Babe”.
The New World Symphony is by Dvorak.
The New World Symphony by Dvorak. :
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jules verne would've lost his shit if he saw the 2010s.
Смешно !
Still like the Walt Disney version best..
Resenha sobre o filme: magiadoreal.blogspot.com/2020/07/filme-do-dia-20000-leguas-submarinas.html
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200,000 leagues under the sea (1917)
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ermahgerd. kill me now. just please. why does this have to be apart of my project. nuuuuuuuuuuuu. whaaaiiii. if i was old maybe this would be more likable
Geez, try to appreciate it for the technical achievement it is. This movie is almost 100 years old
For the young man who wanted some one to kill him, because he was "forced to watch it", in 1916 young men were being killed in Europe while they were making this movie in America. It may be almost 100 years ago but it is for many of us two generations ago. Here is the link, learn something. www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/somme.htm.
I was just messing around. Didnt mean anything by what i said
+Franklyn Van I remember when I was young and said things I did not mean. I am not sure I remember why, but I know I did. Glad I grew out of it. Seriously Frank, Those who know only of their own generation are doomed to be forever children. You'll grow up. Have fun. Learn. Try not to make the same mistakes too many times in a row. It's all good.
lol.. I think those 'young' men in 1916 would tend to agree with you.. I think he means well.
Personally not a fan of these types of movies. They’re boring and have huge plot holes. If you’re looking for an exciting watch, I’d recommend Metropolis, Battleship Potemkin, Passion of Joan of Arc, or anything Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin