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Maurice · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:23 pm Post subject:

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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Maurice · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:34 am Post subject:

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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Bud Brewster · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:02 pm Post subject:

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That documentary is wonderful! Thank you.
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Bud Brewster · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:21 am Post subject:

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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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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Pow · Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:03 pm Post subject:

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.

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:51 pm Post subject:

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 3:04 pm Post subject:

Good news! Youtube has a 963 MB version of the movie with English subtitles. The picture quality is excellent!

The running time according to IMDB's listing is 1:23 (83 minutes). The running time on the video below is 1:18, a five minute difference..

_______ THE FABULOUS WORLD OF JULES VERNE

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)