Monday November 2, 7pm, The Paramount, Seattle
"Slowly, silently, it rises from unfathomable depths."
A French scientist leads an expedition sent to find and destroy a gigantic, menacing sea monster. He discovers instead a dark, vengeful anti-hero that controls the "monster" and complications ensue.
The third motion picture (American Mutoscope & Biograph 1905, Georges Méliès 1907) based on Jules Verne's Vingt Mille Lieues sous Les Mers from his legendary Voyages Extraordiniares, Universal Film Mfg. Co's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) is noteworthy for the technically astonishing underwater photography of John Ernest Williamson's Submarine Film Corporation. Produced by Carl Laemmle over a two-year period in the Bahamas, at Universal's Leonia, New Jersey and Universal City, California facilities, for a reported cost of $500,000 (roughly $100,000,000 today), the screenplay also incorporated elements of Verne's Mysterious Island. The technology of Williamson's "Photosphere" observation chamber, used to film encounters with undersea creatures, rivals the fictional science of Verne's novel and helped establish the fantasy-horror legacy of Universal Studios.
"Slowly, silently, it rises from unfathomable depths."
A French scientist leads an expedition sent to find and destroy a gigantic, menacing sea monster. He discovers instead a dark, vengeful anti-hero that controls the "monster" and complications ensue.
The third motion picture (American Mutoscope & Biograph 1905, Georges Méliès 1907) based on Jules Verne's Vingt Mille Lieues sous Les Mers from his legendary Voyages Extraordiniares, Universal Film Mfg. Co's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) is noteworthy for the technically astonishing underwater photography of John Ernest Williamson's Submarine Film Corporation. Produced by Carl Laemmle over a two-year period in the Bahamas, at Universal's Leonia, New Jersey and Universal City, California facilities, for a reported cost of $500,000 (roughly $100,000,000 today), the screenplay also incorporated elements of Verne's Mysterious Island. The technology of Williamson's "Photosphere" observation chamber, used to film encounters with undersea creatures, rivals the fictional science of Verne's novel and helped establish the fantasy-horror legacy of Universal Studios.