20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (movie)
20000 lieues sous les mers- User score: 5.3
- Production country: France
- Producer: Georges Méliès
- Production companies: Star Film
- Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
- Release date: 2/15/1907
- Run time: 10 min.
Movie description
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.
