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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne - (1958 Czechoslovakia)
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Maurice
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A recent restoration of the film can be viewed here. It lacks subtitles, but the image in superb!

http://video.aktualne.cz/vynalez-zkazy-1958/r~6db5b5b4f67611e5a9ac0025900fea04/[/url]
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bud Brewster wrote:
Bulldogtrekker and I watched it tonight, and we were very disappointed. The story isn't very good, and the damn subtitles flash on and off so fast I couldn't keep up with them.

Love this film and couldn't really tell you if the story is good or not....barely paid attention to it as I recall. The whole point of it is the visual feast imho.

I don't know. I tend to be a sucker for films that bend / break the usual sound / dialogue / story / effects mix. Take "Five" [no, not a break, the Arch O. movie! Wink ]. It's a film that comes to mind that's more or less on the other end of the spectrum. Very talky .. but I got absorbed in it.

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not sure if anyone has seen this, yet, but here's a film about Czech animator Karel Zeman which includes clips from this film and behind the scenes material on his various projects. I ran across this reel of 16mm film at the Internet Archive today and personally scanned it so I could share it with y'all!

https://archive.org/details/thespecialeffectsofkarelzeman

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That documentary is wonderful! Thank you.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The great Art Gilmore provides his usual enthusiastic and enjoyable narration to this exciting trailer for The Fabulous World of Jules Verne!

It will have you just itchin' to watch the more. Very Happy

The second and third videos below seems similar to (but not the same) as the one which Maurice posted the link to above.

And the fourth one appears to be a three-minute version of some similar to Verne's Off On a Comet (except that's it presented as a young man's dream).

Obviously Mr. Karel Zeman was an amazing FX artist! Cool


_____ The Fabulous World of Jules Verne - Trailer


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____ THE MAGIC WORLD OF KAREL ZEMAN - part 1


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____ THE MAGIC WORLD OF KAREL ZEMAN - part 2


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______ Karel Zeman: Na kometě / On the Comet


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Keep Watching the Skies! Bill Warren

This is the best film covered in this book.

Karel Zeman's masterpiece is so charming, so witty and so sophisticated, while remaining faithful to the spirit of Jules Verne, that it's breathtaking. Even today, there are those who fail to recognize the film for what it is: the best movie ever adapted from a work of Verne's.

One of the central problems in the acceptance of films such as this is that Americans have trained Hollywood to give them films with lots of special effects, and Hollywood has responded with films in the mode of stylization called "realism." That is, effects that always are supposed to look as if they were happening in reality. Actually, that's not quite what it is: Hollywood gives us heightened, interpreted "reality."

Karel Zeman tried to bring to life on screen the style of illustrations that accompanied the first editions of Verne's works. These were generally done in woodcuts, and as a result, there were many horizontal lines in the finished picture.

It is at once an affectionate spoof of Verne and the 19th -century attitudes toward science, a tribute to both Verne and these attitudes, and a reinterpretation of them in pacifist terms. Furthermore, it is a richly conceived, superbly structured and even wistful period science fiction tale. The tone of the film is complex yet sustained: wistful, ironic, witty, satiric, and altogether haunting.

The term "poetic," which I generally avoid as being nebulous, has some application here. The film is both childlike and sophisticated---yet not aloof from its material. Zeman embraces Verne for his virtues, while being aware that, while predictive, the author's works are dated and charming because of that.

There's also an elusive, hard-to-describe tone found in slightly satiric films from Slavic countries and France, but rarely anywhere else. This unnamed tone of sweet, detached irony is common in comic period pieces which try to maintain a true mood of the period, still filtering it through modern sensibilities. It's not quite whimsical, though the film does have its share of whimsy.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pow wrote:
Karel Zeman tried to bring to life on screen the style of illustrations that accompanied the first editions of Verne's works. These were generally done in woodcuts, and as a result, there were many horizontal lines in the finished picture.

As an artists, this deliberate nod to that classic style of illustration appeals to me — and when you combine this with well-done stop motion, I'm totally sold! Very Happy


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But of course, the folks who are neither art lovers nor stop motion fans view these aspects of the film as two reasons to dislike it. Sad
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