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Captain Nemo

Genre
Action/adventure, steampunk

Author
Jason DeAngelis
Illustrator
Aldin Viray
Publisher
United States Seven Seas Entertainment
Original run
2006
Volumes
1
Captain Nemo is an Original English-language manga series written by Jason DeAngelis, with art by Aldin Viray and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The first volume was released on March 1, 2006. Part of the manga is still online as a webmanga preview. Captain Nemo is meant to be a sequel to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Plot[edit]
The year is 1893, in an alternative time-stream in which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo and then founded an Imperial dynasty. Under the iron grip of Napoleon IV, France has extended its tyrannical rule throughout the world, forging a vast Empire that rivals that of Ancient Rome. Only one man stands in defiance against the Empire, roaming at will beneath the surface of the oceans: Young Captain Nemo and his ragtag crew aboard the Nautilus II. France, however, will not just sit idle as Nemo and his crew roam the seas; they want him hunted down and made an example of so that no others will oppose the French Empire. As such, the Emperor sends his Vice Minister of Security, Monsieur Bertrand Pierpont, aboard Captain Gaucher's ship Invincible to help with the hunt. However, while Captain Gaucher is sure Nemo is behind this, Monsieur Pierpont makes it clear that the official French standpoint is that Nemo is ancient history and no longer exists as he was slain and his Nautilus sunk over twenty years ago.
Soon after making this point clear to Captain Gaucher, Monsieur Pierpoint learns that his daughter Camille has stowed away aboard the ship and shows all the signs of a woman that will not be left behind. Her father is less than thrilled with this development and locks his daughter away, seeming more concerned of becoming a laughing-stock than that his daughter is now aboard and quite possibly in danger. Meanwhile, Camille is showing she is rebellious and doesn't like to be kept captive, and even seems to hint at finding the idea of Nemo interesting and possibly romantic, as she sneaked on board to watch her father capture Nemo (whom she calls a "terrible pirate").
After her being trapped in her cabin for quite some time, Captain Gaucher (who seems to have a history with Camille) frees her with the idea of her sharing a drink with him but Camille has other ideas and works out a way to be free of her cabins, something that once again her father doesn't like and that reminds him of her mother - her "willful and stubborn" streak. As the hunt continues, Monsieur Pierpoint continues to make it clear he does not believe Nemo exists and agrees with the old stories of that it is merely a sea monster attacking ships and not a miracle ship that can travel under the water.
It is after these events and a long journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific that Captain Nemo is finally found, or in reality finds the ones hunting him. He provokes and challenges Captain Gaucher to a duel, killing him via his superior agility and speed. Seeing her father's attempt to cheat and attack Nemo without warning, Camille stops her father from attacking Nemo. During the attack, Sarah Wakely, Nemo's ship's doctor, tries to hit Monsieur Pierpoint with throwing knives for his attempted attack on Nemo and instead hits Camille, who got in the way. Camille falls overboard and Nemo jumps into save her. While this rather bold and daring action seems to get a smile from his first officer, Dan Rutherford, it doesn't seem to please Sarah Wakely.
Nemo does end up saving Camille from an untimely death, and to make sure she can have her wounds treated he takes her about the Nautilus, where she wakes up as a "free prisoner". Meanwhile back in France, Napoleon IV instructs Admiral Vincent La Rocque, his brutal leader of the Imperial navy, to hunt down and kill Nemo. La Rocque is accompanied on his ship The Horrific by Pierpoint, who has promised his daughter in marriage to La Rocque (should she still be alive).
Thus starts the tale of the new Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the Nautilus II, along with Camille Pierpoint, who seems to show signs of liking Nemo (even if she doesn't entirely like the way he views her as a work of art).
Characters[edit]
Nemo
The captain of the Nautilus II and son of the original Captain Nemo. He is calm and collected, chivalrious, fearless. Though he does have a bit of a weakness when it comes to the opposite sex, due to the fact he's had very little exposure to them at sea. Like his father before him, he has sworn never to set foot on land until every man is free from tyranny.Camille Pierpont
The daughter of a noble family, she is saved by Nemo after falling in the ocean when the Nautilus II attacks the ship sent to sink it. Camille might both become a member of the crew as long as she is a "prisoner" aboard the Nautilus II and also she might become a love interest for Nemo and a rival for Sarah Wakely. Though it is also possible that Sarah hitting Camille with throwing knives during their first meeting has caused the tension that now exists between the two.Sarah Wakely
Sarah is the ship's medic aboard the Nautilus II and a lethal shot. She is also a possible rival to Camille for Nemo's affection. However, for some reason she also ended up attacking Camille from the start with throwing knives something that obviously did not sit well with Camille. One important thing to note is that she is the daughter of the infamous killer Jack the Ripper.Conseil
Nemo's Butler and close friend. Conseil is very knowledgeable about sea life, and fascinated by sea life too, he is also a master chef. It is possible that he is the same Conseil from Jules Verne's novel.Donovan Nolan
Nemo's childhood friend and the second in command of the Nautilus II He is the First Mate.Dan Rutherford
Third in command of the Nautilus II. He is the Second Mate.Phillip Brown
Chief Engineer of the Nautilus II, he looks like a child but is a wizard with the engines and the son of the creator of the original Nautilus.Monsieur Bertrand Pierpont
Camille's father and Vice Minister of Security, his job is to try to prove the Nautulis doesn't exist, however now that he knows it does and that his daughter is aboard the ship, he is likely to pursue Nemo in an attempt recover his daughter. Overall Pierpont is a very dishonorable man that does little to earn the respect of anyone, including his daughter. He has great dreams of promotion and political gain, and he will do anything, even promise his own daughter's hand in marriage to the brutal Admiral La Roche, in order to achieve his goals.Captain Gaucher
In command of the Invincible, a ship that is sent out to hunt Nemo, in which Camille sneaks aboard. He tried to take advantage of Camille during a drunken stupor. He is killed in a duel with Nemo.Admiral La Rocque
A hulking, brutal giant who commands the Imperial French Navy. He has his eyes on Camille and vows to kill Nemo. His ship is the Horrific. He is not above torturing his own men to achieve his goals.Napoleon IV
The current despot ruler of the French Empire. His father, Napoleon III had dealt with Captain Nemo Senior and in the end, managed to slay him and sink the Nautillus I. He considers Camille's father as useful, but keeps him at arm's length, due to Bertrand's less than shining heritage and that Camille's mother was Jewish.
External links[edit]
Captain Nemo Official site
  


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Captain Nemo (comics)
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Captain Nemo

Genre
Action/adventure, steampunk

Author
Jason DeAngelis
Illustrator
Aldin Viray
Publisher
United States Seven Seas Entertainment
Original run
2006
Volumes
1
Captain Nemo is an Original English-language manga series written by Jason DeAngelis, with art by Aldin Viray and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The first volume was released on March 1, 2006. Part of the manga is still online as a webmanga preview. Captain Nemo is meant to be a sequel to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Plot[edit]
The year is 1893, in an alternative time-stream in which Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo and then founded an Imperial dynasty. Under the iron grip of Napoleon IV, France has extended its tyrannical rule throughout the world, forging a vast Empire that rivals that of Ancient Rome. Only one man stands in defiance against the Empire, roaming at will beneath the surface of the oceans: Young Captain Nemo and his ragtag crew aboard the Nautilus II. France, however, will not just sit idle as Nemo and his crew roam the seas; they want him hunted down and made an example of so that no others will oppose the French Empire. As such, the Emperor sends his Vice Minister of Security, Monsieur Bertrand Pierpont, aboard Captain Gaucher's ship Invincible to help with the hunt. However, while Captain Gaucher is sure Nemo is behind this, Monsieur Pierpont makes it clear that the official French standpoint is that Nemo is ancient history and no longer exists as he was slain and his Nautilus sunk over twenty years ago.
Soon after making this point clear to Captain Gaucher, Monsieur Pierpoint learns that his daughter Camille has stowed away aboard the ship and shows all the signs of a woman that will not be left behind. Her father is less than thrilled with this development and locks his daughter away, seeming more concerned of becoming a laughing-stock than that his daughter is now aboard and quite possibly in danger. Meanwhile, Camille is showing she is rebellious and doesn't like to be kept captive, and even seems to hint at finding the idea of Nemo interesting and possibly romantic, as she sneaked on board to watch her father capture Nemo (whom she calls a "terrible pirate").
After her being trapped in her cabin for quite some time, Captain Gaucher (who seems to have a history with Camille) frees her with the idea of her sharing a drink with him but Camille has other ideas and works out a way to be free of her cabins, something that once again her father doesn't like and that reminds him of her mother - her "willful and stubborn" streak. As the hunt continues, Monsieur Pierpoint continues to make it clear he does not believe Nemo exists and agrees with the old stories of that it is merely a sea monster attacking ships and not a miracle ship that can travel under the water.
It is after these events and a long journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific that Captain Nemo is finally found, or in reality finds the ones hunting him. He provokes and challenges Captain Gaucher to a duel, killing him via his superior agility and speed. Seeing her father's attempt to cheat and attack Nemo without warning, Camille stops her father from attacking Nemo. During the attack, Sarah Wakely, Nemo's ship's doctor, tries to hit Monsieur Pierpoint with throwing knives for his attempted attack on Nemo and instead hits Camille, who got in the way. Camille falls overboard and Nemo jumps into save her. While this rather bold and daring action seems to get a smile from his first officer, Dan Rutherford, it doesn't seem to please Sarah Wakely.
Nemo does end up saving Camille from an untimely death, and to make sure she can have her wounds treated he takes her about the Nautilus, where she wakes up as a "free prisoner". Meanwhile back in France, Napoleon IV instructs Admiral Vincent La Rocque, his brutal leader of the Imperial navy, to hunt down and kill Nemo. La Rocque is accompanied on his ship The Horrific by Pierpoint, who has promised his daughter in marriage to La Rocque (should she still be alive).
Thus starts the tale of the new Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the Nautilus II, along with Camille Pierpoint, who seems to show signs of liking Nemo (even if she doesn't entirely like the way he views her as a work of art).
Characters[edit]
Nemo
The captain of the Nautilus II and son of the original Captain Nemo. He is calm and collected, chivalrious, fearless. Though he does have a bit of a weakness when it comes to the opposite sex, due to the fact he's had very little exposure to them at sea. Like his father before him, he has sworn never to set foot on land until every man is free from tyranny.Camille Pierpont
The daughter of a noble family, she is saved by Nemo after falling in the ocean when the Nautilus II attacks the ship sent to sink it. Camille might both become a member of the crew as long as she is a "prisoner" aboard the Nautilus II and also she might become a love interest for Nemo and a rival for Sarah Wakely. Though it is also possible that Sarah hitting Camille with throwing knives during their first meeting has caused the tension that now exists between the two.Sarah Wakely
Sarah is the ship's medic aboard the Nautilus II and a lethal shot. She is also a possible rival to Camille for Nemo's affection. However, for some reason she also ended up attacking Camille from the start with throwing knives something that obviously did not sit well with Camille. One important thing to note is that she is the daughter of the infamous killer Jack the Ripper.Conseil
Nemo's Butler and close friend. Conseil is very knowledgeable about sea life, and fascinated by sea life too, he is also a master chef. It is possible that he is the same Conseil from Jules Verne's novel.Donovan Nolan
Nemo's childhood friend and the second in command of the Nautilus II He is the First Mate.Dan Rutherford
Third in command of the Nautilus II. He is the Second Mate.Phillip Brown
Chief Engineer of the Nautilus II, he looks like a child but is a wizard with the engines and the son of the creator of the original Nautilus.Monsieur Bertrand Pierpont
Camille's father and Vice Minister of Security, his job is to try to prove the Nautulis doesn't exist, however now that he knows it does and that his daughter is aboard the ship, he is likely to pursue Nemo in an attempt recover his daughter. Overall Pierpont is a very dishonorable man that does little to earn the respect of anyone, including his daughter. He has great dreams of promotion and political gain, and he will do anything, even promise his own daughter's hand in marriage to the brutal Admiral La Roche, in order to achieve his goals.Captain Gaucher
In command of the Invincible, a ship that is sent out to hunt Nemo, in which Camille sneaks aboard. He tried to take advantage of Camille during a drunken stupor. He is killed in a duel with Nemo.Admiral La Rocque
A hulking, brutal giant who commands the Imperial French Navy. He has his eyes on Camille and vows to kill Nemo. His ship is the Horrific. He is not above torturing his own men to achieve his goals.Napoleon IV
The current despot ruler of the French Empire. His father, Napoleon III had dealt with Captain Nemo Senior and in the end, managed to slay him and sink the Nautillus I. He considers Camille's father as useful, but keeps him at arm's length, due to Bertrand's less than shining heritage and that Camille's mother was Jewish.
External links[edit]
Captain Nemo Official site
  


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Journey Through the Impossible
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For the Georges Méliès film, see The Impossible Voyage.

Journey Through the Impossible
Voyage à travers l'impossible L'Illustration cropped.jpg
An 1882 engraving from L'Illustration, showing scenes and characters from the play

Written by
Jules Verne
Adolphe d'Ennery

Date premiered
25 November 1882
Place premiered
Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
Original language
French
Genre
Féerie
Journey Through the Impossible (French: Voyage à travers l’impossible) is an 1882 fantasy play written by Jules Verne, with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery.[1] A stage spectacular in the féerie tradition, the play follows the adventures of a young man who, with the help of a magic potion and a varied assortment of friends and advisers, makes impossible voyages to the center of the earth, the bottom of the sea, and a distant planet. The play is deeply influenced by Verne's own Voyages Extraordinaires series and includes characters and themes from some of his most famous novels, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon.
The play opened in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 25 November 1882 to popular acclaim, and achieved a highly successful run of 97 performances. Contemporary critics gave the play mixed reviews; in general, the spectacular staging and the use of ideas from Verne's books were highly praised, while the symbolism and moral themes in the script were criticized and attributed to the collaboration of d'Ennery. The play was not published during Verne's lifetime and was presumed lost until 1978, when a single handwritten copy of the script was discovered; the text has since been published in both French and English. Recent scholars have spoken highly of the play's exploration of the fantasy genre and of initiation myths, its use of characters and concepts from Verne's novels, and of the ambiguous treatment of scientific ambition in the play, marking a transition from optimism to pessimism in Verne's treatment of scientific themes.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Themes
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Rediscovery
6 Notes 6.1 References
6.2 Citations
7 External links

Plot[edit]



 Five characters from Verne's books who appear in the play: T. Artelett (renamed Tartelet), Doctor Ox, Lidenbrock, Nemo, and Ardan. The sixth, Hatteras, is mentioned as the protagonist's father.
Some years before the play begins, the Arctic explorer Captain John Hatteras became the first man to reach the North Pole, but went mad in the attempt (as described in Verne's novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras). Upon his return to England, where he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital, his young son Georges was confided to the care of the aristocrat Madame de Traventhal, of Castle Andernak in Denmark.
At the start of the play, Georges has been living for almost twenty years with Madame de Traventhal and her granddaughter Eva, to whom he is engaged. He has never learned the identity of his father, but he dreams obsessively of travel and adventure, and wishes to follow in the footsteps of great explorers: Otto Lidenbrock (from Journey to the Center of the Earth), Captain Nemo (from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), Michel Ardan (from From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon), and especially Captain Hatteras. Madame de Traventhal, in the hope of curing him of his obsession, sends for a physician newly arrived in the country, a certain Doctor Ox (from the short story "Dr. Ox's Experiment"). It quickly becomes apparent that Dr. Ox is a sinister Tempter figure representing knowledge and science, balancing the Guardian Angel figure of Master Volsius, a local church organist and friend of the de Traventhals.[2]
The doctor, catching Georges alone, reveals Georges's true parentage, and persuades him to drink a magic potion which allows him to go beyond the limits of the probable and journey through the impossible. Eva, realizing what has happened, takes the potion and drinks some as well, so as not to desert Georges. A family friend, the dancing master Tartelet (from The School for Robinsons), is seduced by the opportunity to travel and drinks his own share of the potion before anyone can stop him. Ox sets off with all three travelers, while Volsius makes secret plans to come along and protect Georges from Ox's influence. Along the way, another Dane, Axel Valdemar, also gets mixed up into the journey and becomes a friend of Tartelet.
During the voyages, Volsius reappears in the guise of Georges's heroes: Otto Lidenbrock at the center of the earth, Captain Nemo on a journey on the Nautilus to Atlantis, and Michel Ardan on a cannon-propelled trip to a distant planet, Altor. Ox and Volsius are in constant conflict throughout, with the former urging Georges toward hubris and the latter seeking to protect Georges from the influence. Ox appears to have won at the climax of the play, when Georges—attempting to work for the benefit of Altor, where overconsumption has deprived the planet of soil and other natural resources—leads a massive technological project to save the planet from burning by redirecting its water channels. The project backfires, and the planet explodes.
Through the magical intervention of Ox and Volsius, the travelers are brought back to Castle Andernak, where Georges is on the brink of death. Volsius persuades Ox to work together with him, resolving the tension between them by revealing that the world needs both symbolic figures—scientific knowledge and spiritual compassion—to work in harmony. Together, they bring Georges back to life and health. He renounces his obsessions and promises to live happily ever after with Eva.
Themes[edit]



 Cover of The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, one of the novels invoked in the play
The play's most prominent thematic inspiration is Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires series, which it freely invokes and refers to; in addition to plot elements taken from Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, and Around the Moon, the character of Doctor Ox reappears from the short story "Dr. Ox's Experiment," Mr. Tartelet is derived from a character in The School for Robinsons, and the hero Georges is described as the son of Captain Hatteras from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.[3] However, the plot of the play sets it distinctly apart from the rest of Verne's work: where his novels are based on meticulously researched facts and plausible conjectures, and often end with an ultimate goal remaining unattainable, the play explores the potential of letting a character go beyond all plausible limits and carry out adventures in a domain of pure fantasy.[2]
Like many of Verne's novels, the play is also deeply imbued with themes of initiation, echoing the traditional mythic pattern of a young hero coming of age and reaching maturity through a dangerous and transformative journey.[4] Thus, in Journey Through the Impossible, the young Georges, initially trapped by obsessions similar to those that drove his father mad, resolves his inner torments during a harrowing series of experiences in which Ox and Volsius compete as substitute father-figures.[5] Structurally, the play evokes the three-part design of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann,[6] in which the hero must choose between love and art.[2] In Journey Through the Impossible, however, the choice is between positive ideals—love, goodness, happiness—and the unbounded scientific ambitions of the sinister Doctor Ox.[2] Thus, the play features an ambiguous and multifaceted portrayal of scientific knowledge, celebrating it for its humanistic achievements and discoveries but also warning that it can do immense harm when in the hands of the unethical or overambitious.[7] Given these themes, the play can be considered Verne's most purely science-fictional work.[2]
These themes also mark the play's position at a major turning-point in Verne's ideology.[2] In Verne's earlier works, knowledgeable heroes aim to use their skills to change the world for the better; in his later novels, by contrast, scientists and engineers often apply their knowledge toward morally reprehensible projects. The play, by exploring science in both positive and negative lights, has thus been said to show Verne in transition between the two points of view.[7]
Production[edit]



Jules Verne
Jules Verne

Adolphe d'Ennery
Adolphe d'Ennery




 Verne and d'Ennery also dramatized Michael Strogoff (poster pictured) while writing Journey Through the Impossible
Since 1863, Verne had been under contract with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, who published each of his novels, beginning with Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and continuing through the rest of his books to form the novel sequence Hetzel called the Voyages Extraordinaires. The arrangement gave Verne prominence as a novelist and a certain amount of financial stability, but under the terms of the contract Verne's profits barely earned him a living.[2] Verne's stage adaptation of his novel Around the World in Eighty Days, however, was a smash hit in 1874, running for 415 performances in its original production and making Verne wealthy, as well as famous as a playwright, almost overnight. Adapted with the collaboration of the showman d'Ennery, the play invented and codified the pièce de grand spectacle, an extravagant theatrical genre that became intensely popular in Paris throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century.[2] Verne and d'Ennery went on to adapt two other Verne novels, The Children of Captain Grant and Michael Strogoff, as similarly spectacular plays.[2]
Verne began playing with the idea of bringing a mixed selection of Voyages Extraordinaires characters together on a new adventure in early 1875, when he considered writing a novel in which Samuel Fergusson from Five Weeks in a Balloon, Pierre Aronnax from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Phileas Fogg from Around the World in Eighty Days, Dr. Clawbonny from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, and other characters would go around the world together in a heavier-than-air flying machine. However, a novel featuring a similar trip around the world in a flying machine, Alphonse Brown's La Conquête de l'air, was published later that year, causing Verne to put the idea on hold.[8] The idea, in highly modified form, finally reemerged five years later as Journey Through the Impossible.[9]
Verne went to d'Ennery with the idea in February 1880, and they collaborated in Antibes for several weeks on two projects simultaneously: the dramatization of Michael Strogoff and the new play.[9] Of their collaborations, Journey Through the Impossible was the first, and would be the only one, not based directly on a pre-existing Verne novel.[10] Modern scholarship has not been successful in determining how much of the play each of the collaborators wrote, but the Verne scholar Robert Pourvoyeur has suggested that the play is clearly founded on Verne's ideas and therefore can be treated as being mostly the work of Verne.[11]
According to the féerie historian Paul Ginisty, there were rumors at the time that the collaborators came to difficulties over the treatment of science in the play, with d'Ennery wanting to condemn scientific research and Verne advocating a more science-friendly and hopeful approach; Verne reportedly cut some especially negative lines out of the script, and protested when d'Ennery had them reinserted for the production.[12] Journey Through the Impossible would be their last collaboration.[2] The play is also Verne's only contribution to the féerie genre.[13]
Joseph-François Dailly, the first actor to play the role of Passepartout in Around the World in Eighty Days, was cast as Valdemar; another cast member of Around the World, Augustin-Guillemet Alexandre, played opposite him as Tartelet. Paul-Félix Taillade, who had appeared in The Children of Captain Grant, was cast as Doctor Ox, and Marie Daubrun, a well-known féerie actress who was also the mistress and muse of Charles Baudelaire, played Eva. The production was directed by Paul Clèves (born Paul Collin), the director of the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin from 1879 to 1883.[14] The music was by Oscar de Lagoanère, a prolific composer and music director.[11]
Reception[edit]



 The destruction of Altor at the climax of the play, in an engraving from L'Illustration


 Scenes from the first production, in an engraving for Le Monde Illustré
The play, advertised as une pièce fantastique en trois actes,[3] premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 25 November 1882.[2] As with the previous Verne–d'Ennery collaborations, Journey Through the Impossible had a gala opening night. Reviews for the play were mixed.[10] In the 1882 edition of Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, Édouard Noël and Edmond Stoullig criticized the play for including "Catholico-reactionary mysticism which seeks to elicit tears of holy water from the audience;" Noël and Stoullig suspected that d'Ennery was to blame for the mystical overtones.[10] In Le Temps, Francisque Sarcey panned the play with a brief notice, claiming that all the other plays running that week were "far more interesting and entertaining." He noted the innovative Verne-d'Ennery idea of using the human characters of Volsius and Ox to represent good and evil in the fantasy, rather than resorting to the typical "Good Fairy" and "Bad Fairy" characters in such plays, but added that he "didn't quite see what we've gained by the substitution."[10]
The Parisian critic Arnold Mortier, in a long review of the play, found it "very beautiful and very elegant" and highly praised Dailly's performance as Valdemar, but believed the staging lacked originality: "a great deal of money went into this production, but very few ideas." Like Sarcey, he commented with some asperity on the metaphorical use of Volsius and Ox as symbols of Good and Evil, rather than attractive young women playing Good and Bad Fairies: "Is it not time, perhaps, to return to that practice?"[15] An anonymous reviewer for The New York Times said of the play: "I have never seen anything more idiotically incoherent, or of which the dialogue is more pretentious," but predicted that it would be a success because of its spectacular production values.[16] Henri de Bornier gave the play a brief but highly positive notice in La Nouvelle revue, highlighting the elegance of the decor and commenting Verne and d'Ennery had done humankind a "true service" by exploring impossible domains on the stage.[17]
Charles Monselet, in Le Monde Illustré, praised Taillade and the "curious" nature of the voyages, but found the play as a whole tiresome.[18] On the other hand, two other major illustrated journals, L'Illustration and L'Univers Illustré, greeted the play with wholly positive reviews, particularly lauding the spectacular staging.[19][20] Auguste Vitu gave the play a largely positive review, praising the actors, the decor, and the use of Verne's ideas, but expressed doubts about the wisdom of combining so many disparate styles—dramatic realism, scientific fiction, and pure fantasy—in one production.[21] Anonymous reviewers in the Revue politique et littéraire and the Revue Britannique, as well as Victor Fournel in Le Correspondant and Arthur Heulhard in the Chronique de l'Art, all wrote similarly mixed reviews, speaking highly of the actors and of Verne's characters and concepts but saying that d'Ennery's dramatizations and revisions were clumsy.[22][23][24][25] In his 1910 history of the féerie, Paul Ginisty hailed Journey Through the Impossible for introducing a "scientific element" to the genre and for bringing characters from Verne's books to the stage, but sharply criticized d'Ennery for putting "furiously outdated" sentiments in the mouth of the character Volsius.[12]
The play was a great popular success,[11][26] and ran for 97 performances.[2] It made Verne and d'Ennery even more famous than they had been before.[11] In 1904, the pioneering director Georges Méliès freely adapted it into a film, The Impossible Voyage.[26]
Rediscovery[edit]
The play was not published in Verne's lifetime and was presumed lost until 1978, when a handwritten copy was discovered in the Archives of the Censorship Office of the Third Republic.[2] The text was published in France by Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1981.[2] An English translation by Edward Baxter was commissioned by the North American Jules Verne Society and published in 2003 by Prometheus Books.[27] The first production of the play after its rediscovery occurred in 2005, in a small-scale performance at the Histrio Theatre in Washington, DC.[28]
Since its rediscovery, the play has been studied and analyzed by scholars interested in its place in Verne's oeuvre. However, it remains relatively little-known among his works.[28] The American Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans has called it "delightful," saying it "shows [Verne] at his most whimsically science-fictional."[27] The Swiss-American Verne scholar Jean-Michel Margot has described it as "one of the most intriguing, surprising, and important later works by Jules Verne."[2]
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Dehs, Volker; Jean-Michel Margot; Zvi Har'El, "The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography: V. Plays", Jules Verne Collection (Zvi Har'El), retrieved 10 February 2013
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Margot, Jean-Michel (March 2005), "Jules Verne, Playwright", Science Fiction Studies, 1, XXXII (95): 150–162, retrieved 11 February 2013
3.^ Jump up to: a b Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 20
4.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, pp. 41–42
5.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, pp. 92, 47
6.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 11
7.^ Jump up to: a b Margot, Jean-Michel (2003), "Introduction", in Verne, Jules, Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 11–19
8.Jump up ^ Verne, Jules; Hetzel, Pierre-Jules; Dumas, Olivier; Gondolo della Riva, Piero; Dehs, Volker (1999), Correspondance inédite de Jules Verne et de Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1863-1886) II, Geneva: Slatkine, p. 52
9.^ Jump up to: a b Butcher, William (2008), Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography (revised ed.), Hong Kong: Acadien, p. 289
10.^ Jump up to: a b c d Lottmann, Herbert R. (1996), Jules Verne: an exploratory biography, New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 233–234
11.^ Jump up to: a b c d Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 5
12.^ Jump up to: a b Ginisty, Paul (1910), La Féerie, Paris: Louis-Michaud, pp. 214–215, retrieved 10 March 2014
13.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 9
14.Jump up ^ Margot, Jean-Michel (2003), "Notes", in Verne, Jules, Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 161–180
15.Jump up ^ Mortier, Arnold (2003), "Evenings in Paris in 1882: Journey Through the Impossible", in Verne, Jules, Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 147–153
16.Jump up ^ "A Jules Verne Piece", The New York Times, 19 December 1889, reprinted in Verne, Jules (2003), Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 155–160
17.Jump up ^ de Bornier, Henri (15 December 1882), "Revue du Théâtre: Drame et comédie", La Nouvelle revue 19 (4): 926, retrieved 25 November 2014
18.Jump up ^ Monselet, Charles (2 December 1882), "Théâtre", Le Monde Illustré (1340). Reproduced online at the German Jules Verne Club's European Jules-Verne-Portal, accessed 25 November 2014.
19.Jump up ^ Sayigny (2 December 1882), "Le Voyage à travers l’impossible", L'Illustration LXXX (2075). Reproduced online at the German Jules Verne Club's European Jules-Verne-Portal, accessed 25 November 2014.
20.Jump up ^ Damon (2 December 1882), "Voyage à travers l’impossible", L'Univers Illustré. Reproduced online at the German Jules Verne Club's European Jules-Verne-Portal, accessed 25 November 2014.
21.Jump up ^ Vitu, Auguste (1885), "Voyage à travers l’impossible", Les milles et une nuits du théâtre 8, Paris: Ollendorff, pp. 498–504, retrieved 25 November 2014
22.Jump up ^ "Notes et impressions", Revue politique et littéraire 3 (23), 2 December 1882: 732, retrieved 25 November 2014
23.Jump up ^ "Chronique et bulletin bibliographique", Revue Britannique 6, December 1882: 559, retrieved 25 November 2014
24.Jump up ^ Fournel, Victor (25 December 1882), "Les Œuvres et les Hommes", Le Correspondant: 1183, retrieved 25 November 2014
25.Jump up ^ Heulhard, Arthur (7 December 1882), "Art dramatique", Chronique de l'Art (49): 581–582, retrieved 25 November 2014
26.^ Jump up to: a b Unwin, Timothy A. (2005), Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 98, retrieved 8 September 2014
27.^ Jump up to: a b Evans, Arthur B (November 2004), "Books in Review: Verne on Stage", Science Fiction Studies, 3 XXXI (94): 479–80, retrieved 10 February 2013
28.^ Jump up to: a b Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 6
Citations[edit]
Theodoropoulou, Athanasia (2009), Stories of initiation for the modern age: explorations of textual and theatrical fantasy in Jules Verne's Voyage à travers l'impossible and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Ph.D. thesis), University of Edinburgh, retrieved 8 September 2014
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For the Georges Méliès film, see The Impossible Voyage.

Journey Through the Impossible
Voyage à travers l'impossible L'Illustration cropped.jpg
An 1882 engraving from L'Illustration, showing scenes and characters from the play

Written by
Jules Verne
Adolphe d'Ennery

Date premiered
25 November 1882
Place premiered
Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
Original language
French
Genre
Féerie
Journey Through the Impossible (French: Voyage à travers l’impossible) is an 1882 fantasy play written by Jules Verne, with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery.[1] A stage spectacular in the féerie tradition, the play follows the adventures of a young man who, with the help of a magic potion and a varied assortment of friends and advisers, makes impossible voyages to the center of the earth, the bottom of the sea, and a distant planet. The play is deeply influenced by Verne's own Voyages Extraordinaires series and includes characters and themes from some of his most famous novels, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon.
The play opened in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 25 November 1882 to popular acclaim, and achieved a highly successful run of 97 performances. Contemporary critics gave the play mixed reviews; in general, the spectacular staging and the use of ideas from Verne's books were highly praised, while the symbolism and moral themes in the script were criticized and attributed to the collaboration of d'Ennery. The play was not published during Verne's lifetime and was presumed lost until 1978, when a single handwritten copy of the script was discovered; the text has since been published in both French and English. Recent scholars have spoken highly of the play's exploration of the fantasy genre and of initiation myths, its use of characters and concepts from Verne's novels, and of the ambiguous treatment of scientific ambition in the play, marking a transition from optimism to pessimism in Verne's treatment of scientific themes.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Themes
3 Production
4 Reception
5 Rediscovery
6 Notes 6.1 References
6.2 Citations
7 External links

Plot[edit]



 Five characters from Verne's books who appear in the play: T. Artelett (renamed Tartelet), Doctor Ox, Lidenbrock, Nemo, and Ardan. The sixth, Hatteras, is mentioned as the protagonist's father.
Some years before the play begins, the Arctic explorer Captain John Hatteras became the first man to reach the North Pole, but went mad in the attempt (as described in Verne's novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras). Upon his return to England, where he spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital, his young son Georges was confided to the care of the aristocrat Madame de Traventhal, of Castle Andernak in Denmark.
At the start of the play, Georges has been living for almost twenty years with Madame de Traventhal and her granddaughter Eva, to whom he is engaged. He has never learned the identity of his father, but he dreams obsessively of travel and adventure, and wishes to follow in the footsteps of great explorers: Otto Lidenbrock (from Journey to the Center of the Earth), Captain Nemo (from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), Michel Ardan (from From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon), and especially Captain Hatteras. Madame de Traventhal, in the hope of curing him of his obsession, sends for a physician newly arrived in the country, a certain Doctor Ox (from the short story "Dr. Ox's Experiment"). It quickly becomes apparent that Dr. Ox is a sinister Tempter figure representing knowledge and science, balancing the Guardian Angel figure of Master Volsius, a local church organist and friend of the de Traventhals.[2]
The doctor, catching Georges alone, reveals Georges's true parentage, and persuades him to drink a magic potion which allows him to go beyond the limits of the probable and journey through the impossible. Eva, realizing what has happened, takes the potion and drinks some as well, so as not to desert Georges. A family friend, the dancing master Tartelet (from The School for Robinsons), is seduced by the opportunity to travel and drinks his own share of the potion before anyone can stop him. Ox sets off with all three travelers, while Volsius makes secret plans to come along and protect Georges from Ox's influence. Along the way, another Dane, Axel Valdemar, also gets mixed up into the journey and becomes a friend of Tartelet.
During the voyages, Volsius reappears in the guise of Georges's heroes: Otto Lidenbrock at the center of the earth, Captain Nemo on a journey on the Nautilus to Atlantis, and Michel Ardan on a cannon-propelled trip to a distant planet, Altor. Ox and Volsius are in constant conflict throughout, with the former urging Georges toward hubris and the latter seeking to protect Georges from the influence. Ox appears to have won at the climax of the play, when Georges—attempting to work for the benefit of Altor, where overconsumption has deprived the planet of soil and other natural resources—leads a massive technological project to save the planet from burning by redirecting its water channels. The project backfires, and the planet explodes.
Through the magical intervention of Ox and Volsius, the travelers are brought back to Castle Andernak, where Georges is on the brink of death. Volsius persuades Ox to work together with him, resolving the tension between them by revealing that the world needs both symbolic figures—scientific knowledge and spiritual compassion—to work in harmony. Together, they bring Georges back to life and health. He renounces his obsessions and promises to live happily ever after with Eva.
Themes[edit]



 Cover of The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, one of the novels invoked in the play
The play's most prominent thematic inspiration is Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires series, which it freely invokes and refers to; in addition to plot elements taken from Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, and Around the Moon, the character of Doctor Ox reappears from the short story "Dr. Ox's Experiment," Mr. Tartelet is derived from a character in The School for Robinsons, and the hero Georges is described as the son of Captain Hatteras from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.[3] However, the plot of the play sets it distinctly apart from the rest of Verne's work: where his novels are based on meticulously researched facts and plausible conjectures, and often end with an ultimate goal remaining unattainable, the play explores the potential of letting a character go beyond all plausible limits and carry out adventures in a domain of pure fantasy.[2]
Like many of Verne's novels, the play is also deeply imbued with themes of initiation, echoing the traditional mythic pattern of a young hero coming of age and reaching maturity through a dangerous and transformative journey.[4] Thus, in Journey Through the Impossible, the young Georges, initially trapped by obsessions similar to those that drove his father mad, resolves his inner torments during a harrowing series of experiences in which Ox and Volsius compete as substitute father-figures.[5] Structurally, the play evokes the three-part design of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann,[6] in which the hero must choose between love and art.[2] In Journey Through the Impossible, however, the choice is between positive ideals—love, goodness, happiness—and the unbounded scientific ambitions of the sinister Doctor Ox.[2] Thus, the play features an ambiguous and multifaceted portrayal of scientific knowledge, celebrating it for its humanistic achievements and discoveries but also warning that it can do immense harm when in the hands of the unethical or overambitious.[7] Given these themes, the play can be considered Verne's most purely science-fictional work.[2]
These themes also mark the play's position at a major turning-point in Verne's ideology.[2] In Verne's earlier works, knowledgeable heroes aim to use their skills to change the world for the better; in his later novels, by contrast, scientists and engineers often apply their knowledge toward morally reprehensible projects. The play, by exploring science in both positive and negative lights, has thus been said to show Verne in transition between the two points of view.[7]
Production[edit]



Jules Verne
Jules Verne

Adolphe d'Ennery
Adolphe d'Ennery




 Verne and d'Ennery also dramatized Michael Strogoff (poster pictured) while writing Journey Through the Impossible
Since 1863, Verne had been under contract with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, who published each of his novels, beginning with Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and continuing through the rest of his books to form the novel sequence Hetzel called the Voyages Extraordinaires. The arrangement gave Verne prominence as a novelist and a certain amount of financial stability, but under the terms of the contract Verne's profits barely earned him a living.[2] Verne's stage adaptation of his novel Around the World in Eighty Days, however, was a smash hit in 1874, running for 415 performances in its original production and making Verne wealthy, as well as famous as a playwright, almost overnight. Adapted with the collaboration of the showman d'Ennery, the play invented and codified the pièce de grand spectacle, an extravagant theatrical genre that became intensely popular in Paris throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century.[2] Verne and d'Ennery went on to adapt two other Verne novels, The Children of Captain Grant and Michael Strogoff, as similarly spectacular plays.[2]
Verne began playing with the idea of bringing a mixed selection of Voyages Extraordinaires characters together on a new adventure in early 1875, when he considered writing a novel in which Samuel Fergusson from Five Weeks in a Balloon, Pierre Aronnax from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Phileas Fogg from Around the World in Eighty Days, Dr. Clawbonny from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, and other characters would go around the world together in a heavier-than-air flying machine. However, a novel featuring a similar trip around the world in a flying machine, Alphonse Brown's La Conquête de l'air, was published later that year, causing Verne to put the idea on hold.[8] The idea, in highly modified form, finally reemerged five years later as Journey Through the Impossible.[9]
Verne went to d'Ennery with the idea in February 1880, and they collaborated in Antibes for several weeks on two projects simultaneously: the dramatization of Michael Strogoff and the new play.[9] Of their collaborations, Journey Through the Impossible was the first, and would be the only one, not based directly on a pre-existing Verne novel.[10] Modern scholarship has not been successful in determining how much of the play each of the collaborators wrote, but the Verne scholar Robert Pourvoyeur has suggested that the play is clearly founded on Verne's ideas and therefore can be treated as being mostly the work of Verne.[11]
According to the féerie historian Paul Ginisty, there were rumors at the time that the collaborators came to difficulties over the treatment of science in the play, with d'Ennery wanting to condemn scientific research and Verne advocating a more science-friendly and hopeful approach; Verne reportedly cut some especially negative lines out of the script, and protested when d'Ennery had them reinserted for the production.[12] Journey Through the Impossible would be their last collaboration.[2] The play is also Verne's only contribution to the féerie genre.[13]
Joseph-François Dailly, the first actor to play the role of Passepartout in Around the World in Eighty Days, was cast as Valdemar; another cast member of Around the World, Augustin-Guillemet Alexandre, played opposite him as Tartelet. Paul-Félix Taillade, who had appeared in The Children of Captain Grant, was cast as Doctor Ox, and Marie Daubrun, a well-known féerie actress who was also the mistress and muse of Charles Baudelaire, played Eva. The production was directed by Paul Clèves (born Paul Collin), the director of the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin from 1879 to 1883.[14] The music was by Oscar de Lagoanère, a prolific composer and music director.[11]
Reception[edit]



 The destruction of Altor at the climax of the play, in an engraving from L'Illustration


 Scenes from the first production, in an engraving for Le Monde Illustré
The play, advertised as une pièce fantastique en trois actes,[3] premiered in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 25 November 1882.[2] As with the previous Verne–d'Ennery collaborations, Journey Through the Impossible had a gala opening night. Reviews for the play were mixed.[10] In the 1882 edition of Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, Édouard Noël and Edmond Stoullig criticized the play for including "Catholico-reactionary mysticism which seeks to elicit tears of holy water from the audience;" Noël and Stoullig suspected that d'Ennery was to blame for the mystical overtones.[10] In Le Temps, Francisque Sarcey panned the play with a brief notice, claiming that all the other plays running that week were "far more interesting and entertaining." He noted the innovative Verne-d'Ennery idea of using the human characters of Volsius and Ox to represent good and evil in the fantasy, rather than resorting to the typical "Good Fairy" and "Bad Fairy" characters in such plays, but added that he "didn't quite see what we've gained by the substitution."[10]
The Parisian critic Arnold Mortier, in a long review of the play, found it "very beautiful and very elegant" and highly praised Dailly's performance as Valdemar, but believed the staging lacked originality: "a great deal of money went into this production, but very few ideas." Like Sarcey, he commented with some asperity on the metaphorical use of Volsius and Ox as symbols of Good and Evil, rather than attractive young women playing Good and Bad Fairies: "Is it not time, perhaps, to return to that practice?"[15] An anonymous reviewer for The New York Times said of the play: "I have never seen anything more idiotically incoherent, or of which the dialogue is more pretentious," but predicted that it would be a success because of its spectacular production values.[16] Henri de Bornier gave the play a brief but highly positive notice in La Nouvelle revue, highlighting the elegance of the decor and commenting Verne and d'Ennery had done humankind a "true service" by exploring impossible domains on the stage.[17]
Charles Monselet, in Le Monde Illustré, praised Taillade and the "curious" nature of the voyages, but found the play as a whole tiresome.[18] On the other hand, two other major illustrated journals, L'Illustration and L'Univers Illustré, greeted the play with wholly positive reviews, particularly lauding the spectacular staging.[19][20] Auguste Vitu gave the play a largely positive review, praising the actors, the decor, and the use of Verne's ideas, but expressed doubts about the wisdom of combining so many disparate styles—dramatic realism, scientific fiction, and pure fantasy—in one production.[21] Anonymous reviewers in the Revue politique et littéraire and the Revue Britannique, as well as Victor Fournel in Le Correspondant and Arthur Heulhard in the Chronique de l'Art, all wrote similarly mixed reviews, speaking highly of the actors and of Verne's characters and concepts but saying that d'Ennery's dramatizations and revisions were clumsy.[22][23][24][25] In his 1910 history of the féerie, Paul Ginisty hailed Journey Through the Impossible for introducing a "scientific element" to the genre and for bringing characters from Verne's books to the stage, but sharply criticized d'Ennery for putting "furiously outdated" sentiments in the mouth of the character Volsius.[12]
The play was a great popular success,[11][26] and ran for 97 performances.[2] It made Verne and d'Ennery even more famous than they had been before.[11] In 1904, the pioneering director Georges Méliès freely adapted it into a film, The Impossible Voyage.[26]
Rediscovery[edit]
The play was not published in Verne's lifetime and was presumed lost until 1978, when a handwritten copy was discovered in the Archives of the Censorship Office of the Third Republic.[2] The text was published in France by Jean-Jacques Pauvert in 1981.[2] An English translation by Edward Baxter was commissioned by the North American Jules Verne Society and published in 2003 by Prometheus Books.[27] The first production of the play after its rediscovery occurred in 2005, in a small-scale performance at the Histrio Theatre in Washington, DC.[28]
Since its rediscovery, the play has been studied and analyzed by scholars interested in its place in Verne's oeuvre. However, it remains relatively little-known among his works.[28] The American Verne scholar Arthur B. Evans has called it "delightful," saying it "shows [Verne] at his most whimsically science-fictional."[27] The Swiss-American Verne scholar Jean-Michel Margot has described it as "one of the most intriguing, surprising, and important later works by Jules Verne."[2]
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Dehs, Volker; Jean-Michel Margot; Zvi Har'El, "The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography: V. Plays", Jules Verne Collection (Zvi Har'El), retrieved 10 February 2013
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Margot, Jean-Michel (March 2005), "Jules Verne, Playwright", Science Fiction Studies, 1, XXXII (95): 150–162, retrieved 11 February 2013
3.^ Jump up to: a b Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 20
4.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, pp. 41–42
5.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, pp. 92, 47
6.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 11
7.^ Jump up to: a b Margot, Jean-Michel (2003), "Introduction", in Verne, Jules, Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 11–19
8.Jump up ^ Verne, Jules; Hetzel, Pierre-Jules; Dumas, Olivier; Gondolo della Riva, Piero; Dehs, Volker (1999), Correspondance inédite de Jules Verne et de Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1863-1886) II, Geneva: Slatkine, p. 52
9.^ Jump up to: a b Butcher, William (2008), Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography (revised ed.), Hong Kong: Acadien, p. 289
10.^ Jump up to: a b c d Lottmann, Herbert R. (1996), Jules Verne: an exploratory biography, New York: St. Martin's Press, pp. 233–234
11.^ Jump up to: a b c d Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 5
12.^ Jump up to: a b Ginisty, Paul (1910), La Féerie, Paris: Louis-Michaud, pp. 214–215, retrieved 10 March 2014
13.Jump up ^ Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 9
14.Jump up ^ Margot, Jean-Michel (2003), "Notes", in Verne, Jules, Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 161–180
15.Jump up ^ Mortier, Arnold (2003), "Evenings in Paris in 1882: Journey Through the Impossible", in Verne, Jules, Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 147–153
16.Jump up ^ "A Jules Verne Piece", The New York Times, 19 December 1889, reprinted in Verne, Jules (2003), Journey Through the Impossible, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 155–160
17.Jump up ^ de Bornier, Henri (15 December 1882), "Revue du Théâtre: Drame et comédie", La Nouvelle revue 19 (4): 926, retrieved 25 November 2014
18.Jump up ^ Monselet, Charles (2 December 1882), "Théâtre", Le Monde Illustré (1340). Reproduced online at the German Jules Verne Club's European Jules-Verne-Portal, accessed 25 November 2014.
19.Jump up ^ Sayigny (2 December 1882), "Le Voyage à travers l’impossible", L'Illustration LXXX (2075). Reproduced online at the German Jules Verne Club's European Jules-Verne-Portal, accessed 25 November 2014.
20.Jump up ^ Damon (2 December 1882), "Voyage à travers l’impossible", L'Univers Illustré. Reproduced online at the German Jules Verne Club's European Jules-Verne-Portal, accessed 25 November 2014.
21.Jump up ^ Vitu, Auguste (1885), "Voyage à travers l’impossible", Les milles et une nuits du théâtre 8, Paris: Ollendorff, pp. 498–504, retrieved 25 November 2014
22.Jump up ^ "Notes et impressions", Revue politique et littéraire 3 (23), 2 December 1882: 732, retrieved 25 November 2014
23.Jump up ^ "Chronique et bulletin bibliographique", Revue Britannique 6, December 1882: 559, retrieved 25 November 2014
24.Jump up ^ Fournel, Victor (25 December 1882), "Les Œuvres et les Hommes", Le Correspondant: 1183, retrieved 25 November 2014
25.Jump up ^ Heulhard, Arthur (7 December 1882), "Art dramatique", Chronique de l'Art (49): 581–582, retrieved 25 November 2014
26.^ Jump up to: a b Unwin, Timothy A. (2005), Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 98, retrieved 8 September 2014
27.^ Jump up to: a b Evans, Arthur B (November 2004), "Books in Review: Verne on Stage", Science Fiction Studies, 3 XXXI (94): 479–80, retrieved 10 February 2013
28.^ Jump up to: a b Theodoropoulou 2009, p. 6
Citations[edit]
Theodoropoulou, Athanasia (2009), Stories of initiation for the modern age: explorations of textual and theatrical fantasy in Jules Verne's Voyage à travers l'impossible and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (Ph.D. thesis), University of Edinburgh, retrieved 8 September 2014
External links[edit]
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A scenic model from the original production at the Bibliothèque nationale de France


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The Secret of the Nautilus
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The Secret of the Nautilus
The Secret of the Nautilus
Box art for The Secret of the Nautilus
Developer(s) Cryo Interactive[1]
Publisher(s) NA DreamCatcher Interactive
EU Cryo Interactive
[1]
Platform(s) Windows PC
Release date(s) NA April 29, 2002
EU 2002
[1]
Genre(s) First-person fantasy adventure[1]
Mode(s) Single-player
The Secret of the Nautilus is a 2002 adventure video game, inspired by Jules Verne's science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was developed by Cryo Interactive and released for Microsoft Windows based PCs.
The game is set under the sea in the 21st century, where during a scientific assignment, a young oceanographer enters into a strange type of submarine hidden on an undersea rock shelf. The vessel turns out to be the famous Nautilus which was abandoned a great many years earlier by its Captain, Nemo. The game features many puzzles to solve.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d The Secret of the Nautilus release information at GameFAQs
External links[edit]
The Secret of the Nautilus at Microïds
at Metacritic


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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Films
Under the Seas (1907) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ·
 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Village Roadshow) (1997) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hallmark) (1997) ·
 Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) ·
 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
 

Television
Tales of Adventure (1952) ·
 The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) ·
 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) ·
 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
 

Other
Captain Nemo ·
 Nautilus ·
 The Mysterious Island ·
 Journey Through the Impossible (play) ·
 The Secret of the Nautilus (video game) ·
 Captain Nemo (manga) ·
 The Wreck of the Titan (audio) ·
 Legend of the Cybermen (audio) ·
 "Captain Nemo (song)"
 




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The Secret of the Nautilus
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The Secret of the Nautilus
The Secret of the Nautilus
Box art for The Secret of the Nautilus
Developer(s) Cryo Interactive[1]
Publisher(s) NA DreamCatcher Interactive
EU Cryo Interactive
[1]
Platform(s) Windows PC
Release date(s) NA April 29, 2002
EU 2002
[1]
Genre(s) First-person fantasy adventure[1]
Mode(s) Single-player
The Secret of the Nautilus is a 2002 adventure video game, inspired by Jules Verne's science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was developed by Cryo Interactive and released for Microsoft Windows based PCs.
The game is set under the sea in the 21st century, where during a scientific assignment, a young oceanographer enters into a strange type of submarine hidden on an undersea rock shelf. The vessel turns out to be the famous Nautilus which was abandoned a great many years earlier by its Captain, Nemo. The game features many puzzles to solve.
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d The Secret of the Nautilus release information at GameFAQs
External links[edit]
The Secret of the Nautilus at Microïds
at Metacritic


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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Films
Under the Seas (1907) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ·
 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Village Roadshow) (1997) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hallmark) (1997) ·
 Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) ·
 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
 

Television
Tales of Adventure (1952) ·
 The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) ·
 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) ·
 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
 

Other
Captain Nemo ·
 Nautilus ·
 The Mysterious Island ·
 Journey Through the Impossible (play) ·
 The Secret of the Nautilus (video game) ·
 Captain Nemo (manga) ·
 The Wreck of the Titan (audio) ·
 Legend of the Cybermen (audio) ·
 "Captain Nemo (song)"
 




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The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo
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The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo was a series of five-minute cartoons produced in Canada in the mid-1970s. They told the story of Captain Mark Nemo and his young assistants, Christine and Robbie, in their nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus.


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Voice Talent
3 Production
4 Episodes
5 Media availability
6 External links

Background[edit]
In the fall of 1975, children in the United States and Canada were introduced to the animated series The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo. In America, Captain Nemo was introduced as part of the long running children's program Captain Kangaroo on CBS. In Canada, one five-minute Captain Nemo cartoon was shown during each episode of Peanuts and Popcorn which ran on the CBC.
Created by Al Guest & Jean Mathieson who were also the producers and directors as well as writers, it was produced by their studio, Rainbow Animation of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo was a fanciful re-imagining of the original Jules Verne character Captain Nemo, from his book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
This time Nemo was depicted as an ocean researcher named Mark Nemo. Blonde and hunky, Mark traveled the world's oceans doing scientific research, providing assistance to both humans and animals and thwarting evil doers. Along for the ride came two kids Christine and Robbie who learned (along with the viewers) about life beneath the sea as they went.
These cartoons were quite short, exactly five minutes in length (30 seconds of which was the opening). Besides being educational, these cartoons are an insight into some of the philosophy around children's education of the mid 70's. Each episode would attempt to convey some information about oceanography or marine biology, and all of the plot lines would be resolved cleanly in five minutes without resorting to much violence.
At times, Captain Nemo reflects the influence of the 1970s environmental movement, but the sometimes serious attempts to convey environmentalist themes are softened by its lighthearted style.
Voice Talent[edit]
Len Carlson and Billie Mae Richards provided all of the character voices for the entire series.
Production[edit]
Al Guest was a legend in Canadian broadcasting circles since the 1960s. His partner, Jean Mathieson joined him in the seventies to found Rainbow Animation in Toronto which produced Nemo.
Episodes[edit]
Airdates are unknown, nor is this a confirmed airing order.
Rescue of a Killer
 Battle of the Giants
 Poachers of the Deep
 Jaws of Death
 Monsters on the Beach
 The Invisible Girl
 Deadly Ribbons
 The Floating Peril
 Guess What's Coming for Dinner
 Killer From the Past
 The Golden Trap
 The Floating Gold Mine
 The Tuna Trapper
 The Fish Bomber
 The Devil's Doorway
 The Coral Maze
 The Mine at the Bottom of the Sea
 Wild Water and Oil
 The Silver Age
 The Ice Menagerie
 Behind Bars
 Shark Patrol
 Dolphin Express
 Collision At Sea
 Eyes of the Deep
 The Bloodhound of the Sea
 The Arab Solution
 The Undersea Looters
 Shadow of Death
 The Pearl Snatchers
 Circle of Fire
 Rapture of the Deep
 Fish Farm
 Cool It, Captain
 The Little Island
 Mystery Island
 All That Glitters
 Queen of the Deep
 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
 The Big Prize
 Go Fetch, Killer
 Dangerous Welcome
 Mystery Triangle
 The Meteorite Shower
 Snake Charmer
 Haul Away Joe
 See Through Killer
 The Shark Catalog
Media availability[edit]
Digiview Entertainment have published some of the episodes of the animated series to DVD. Digiview Entertainment's releases are found in thin-cases and have been found for as low as a dollar a DVD.
DVD Episodes
Mystery Island (VOL. 3): Eyes of the Deep, The Bloodhound of the Sea, The Arab Solution, The Undersea Solution, Shadow of Death, The Pearl Snatchers, Circle of Fire, Rapture of the Deep, Fish Farm, Cool Lt. Captain, The Little Island, Mystery Island
Dangerouse Welcome (VOL. 4): All That Glitters, Queen of the Deep, Don't Raise the Bridge Lower the River, The Big Prize, Go Fetch Killer, Dangerous Welcome, Mystery Triangle, The Meteorite Shower, Snake Charmer, Haul Away Joe, See Through Killer, The Shark Catalog



External links[edit]
The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo fansite, retrieved from Archive.org on 2010-8-2


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Films
Under the Seas (1907) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ·
 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Village Roadshow) (1997) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hallmark) (1997) ·
 Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) ·
 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
 

Television
Tales of Adventure (1952) ·
 The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) ·
 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) ·
 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
 

Other
Captain Nemo ·
 Nautilus ·
 The Mysterious Island ·
 Journey Through the Impossible (play) ·
 The Secret of the Nautilus (video game) ·
 Captain Nemo (manga) ·
 The Wreck of the Titan (audio) ·
 Legend of the Cybermen (audio) ·
 "Captain Nemo (song)"
 

  


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The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo
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The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo was a series of five-minute cartoons produced in Canada in the mid-1970s. They told the story of Captain Mark Nemo and his young assistants, Christine and Robbie, in their nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus.


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Voice Talent
3 Production
4 Episodes
5 Media availability
6 External links

Background[edit]
In the fall of 1975, children in the United States and Canada were introduced to the animated series The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo. In America, Captain Nemo was introduced as part of the long running children's program Captain Kangaroo on CBS. In Canada, one five-minute Captain Nemo cartoon was shown during each episode of Peanuts and Popcorn which ran on the CBC.
Created by Al Guest & Jean Mathieson who were also the producers and directors as well as writers, it was produced by their studio, Rainbow Animation of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo was a fanciful re-imagining of the original Jules Verne character Captain Nemo, from his book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
This time Nemo was depicted as an ocean researcher named Mark Nemo. Blonde and hunky, Mark traveled the world's oceans doing scientific research, providing assistance to both humans and animals and thwarting evil doers. Along for the ride came two kids Christine and Robbie who learned (along with the viewers) about life beneath the sea as they went.
These cartoons were quite short, exactly five minutes in length (30 seconds of which was the opening). Besides being educational, these cartoons are an insight into some of the philosophy around children's education of the mid 70's. Each episode would attempt to convey some information about oceanography or marine biology, and all of the plot lines would be resolved cleanly in five minutes without resorting to much violence.
At times, Captain Nemo reflects the influence of the 1970s environmental movement, but the sometimes serious attempts to convey environmentalist themes are softened by its lighthearted style.
Voice Talent[edit]
Len Carlson and Billie Mae Richards provided all of the character voices for the entire series.
Production[edit]
Al Guest was a legend in Canadian broadcasting circles since the 1960s. His partner, Jean Mathieson joined him in the seventies to found Rainbow Animation in Toronto which produced Nemo.
Episodes[edit]
Airdates are unknown, nor is this a confirmed airing order.
Rescue of a Killer
 Battle of the Giants
 Poachers of the Deep
 Jaws of Death
 Monsters on the Beach
 The Invisible Girl
 Deadly Ribbons
 The Floating Peril
 Guess What's Coming for Dinner
 Killer From the Past
 The Golden Trap
 The Floating Gold Mine
 The Tuna Trapper
 The Fish Bomber
 The Devil's Doorway
 The Coral Maze
 The Mine at the Bottom of the Sea
 Wild Water and Oil
 The Silver Age
 The Ice Menagerie
 Behind Bars
 Shark Patrol
 Dolphin Express
 Collision At Sea
 Eyes of the Deep
 The Bloodhound of the Sea
 The Arab Solution
 The Undersea Looters
 Shadow of Death
 The Pearl Snatchers
 Circle of Fire
 Rapture of the Deep
 Fish Farm
 Cool It, Captain
 The Little Island
 Mystery Island
 All That Glitters
 Queen of the Deep
 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
 The Big Prize
 Go Fetch, Killer
 Dangerous Welcome
 Mystery Triangle
 The Meteorite Shower
 Snake Charmer
 Haul Away Joe
 See Through Killer
 The Shark Catalog
Media availability[edit]
Digiview Entertainment have published some of the episodes of the animated series to DVD. Digiview Entertainment's releases are found in thin-cases and have been found for as low as a dollar a DVD.
DVD Episodes
Mystery Island (VOL. 3): Eyes of the Deep, The Bloodhound of the Sea, The Arab Solution, The Undersea Solution, Shadow of Death, The Pearl Snatchers, Circle of Fire, Rapture of the Deep, Fish Farm, Cool Lt. Captain, The Little Island, Mystery Island
Dangerouse Welcome (VOL. 4): All That Glitters, Queen of the Deep, Don't Raise the Bridge Lower the River, The Big Prize, Go Fetch Killer, Dangerous Welcome, Mystery Triangle, The Meteorite Shower, Snake Charmer, Haul Away Joe, See Through Killer, The Shark Catalog



External links[edit]
The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo fansite, retrieved from Archive.org on 2010-8-2


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Films
Under the Seas (1907) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ·
 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Village Roadshow) (1997) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hallmark) (1997) ·
 Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) ·
 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
 

Television
Tales of Adventure (1952) ·
 The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) ·
 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) ·
 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
 

Other
Captain Nemo ·
 Nautilus ·
 The Mysterious Island ·
 Journey Through the Impossible (play) ·
 The Secret of the Nautilus (video game) ·
 Captain Nemo (manga) ·
 The Wreck of the Titan (audio) ·
 Legend of the Cybermen (audio) ·
 "Captain Nemo (song)"
 

  


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Tales of Adventure (TV series)
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Tales of Adventure

Genre
drama serial
Country of origin
Canada
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
Production

Running time
30 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
CBC Television
Original run
13 September 1952 – 6 March 1953
Tales of Adventure is a Canadian serial dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television from 1952 to 1953.


Contents  [hide]
1 Premise
2 Scheduling
3 References
4 External links

Premise[edit]
The first six episodes were a serial version of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, with adaptation by Ray Darby and production by Silvio Narizzano. This was followed by The Moonstone, a Wilkie Collins story adapted by Michael Jacot and produced by David Green.[1][2] The next serial was "Roger Sudden" by Thomas Raddall, produced by Lloyd Brydon; this ran from 5 December 1952 until the following month.[3] "The Mysterious Island" by Jules Verne ran from 30 January to 6 March 1953.[4]
Scheduling[edit]
This half-hour series was broadcast on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. from 13 September to 8 November 1952. Episodes then moved to a Friday 7:30 p.m. time slot from 14 November 1952 to 6 March 1953. After this, Space Command was introduced in the time slot.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967. University of Toronto Press. p. 374. ISBN 0-8020-5830-2.
2.Jump up ^ Corcelli, John (February 2005). "Tales of Adventure". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
3.Jump up ^ "Radio Television". The Globe and Mail. 5 December 1952-16 January 1953. Check date values in: |date= (help)
4.Jump up ^ "Radio Television". The Globe and Mail. 6 February – 13 March 1953.
External links[edit]
Allan, Blaine (1996). "Tales of Adventure". Queen's University. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
Tales of Adventure at the Internet Movie Database


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Films
Under the Seas (1907) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ·
 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Village Roadshow) (1997) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hallmark) (1997) ·
 Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) ·
 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
 

Television
Tales of Adventure (1952) ·
 The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) ·
 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) ·
 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
 

Other
Captain Nemo ·
 Nautilus ·
 The Mysterious Island ·
 Journey Through the Impossible (play) ·
 The Secret of the Nautilus (video game) ·
 Captain Nemo (manga) ·
 The Wreck of the Titan (audio) ·
 Legend of the Cybermen (audio) ·
 "Captain Nemo (song)"
 

  


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Tales of Adventure (TV series)
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Tales of Adventure

Genre
drama serial
Country of origin
Canada
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
1
Production

Running time
30 minutes
Broadcast

Original channel
CBC Television
Original run
13 September 1952 – 6 March 1953
Tales of Adventure is a Canadian serial dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television from 1952 to 1953.


Contents  [hide]
1 Premise
2 Scheduling
3 References
4 External links

Premise[edit]
The first six episodes were a serial version of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, with adaptation by Ray Darby and production by Silvio Narizzano. This was followed by The Moonstone, a Wilkie Collins story adapted by Michael Jacot and produced by David Green.[1][2] The next serial was "Roger Sudden" by Thomas Raddall, produced by Lloyd Brydon; this ran from 5 December 1952 until the following month.[3] "The Mysterious Island" by Jules Verne ran from 30 January to 6 March 1953.[4]
Scheduling[edit]
This half-hour series was broadcast on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. from 13 September to 8 November 1952. Episodes then moved to a Friday 7:30 p.m. time slot from 14 November 1952 to 6 March 1953. After this, Space Command was introduced in the time slot.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Rutherford, Paul (1990). When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967. University of Toronto Press. p. 374. ISBN 0-8020-5830-2.
2.Jump up ^ Corcelli, John (February 2005). "Tales of Adventure". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
3.Jump up ^ "Radio Television". The Globe and Mail. 5 December 1952-16 January 1953. Check date values in: |date= (help)
4.Jump up ^ "Radio Television". The Globe and Mail. 6 February – 13 March 1953.
External links[edit]
Allan, Blaine (1996). "Tales of Adventure". Queen's University. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
Tales of Adventure at the Internet Movie Database


[hide]
v ·
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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea


Films
Under the Seas (1907) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) ·
 Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Village Roadshow) (1997) ·
 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Hallmark) (1997) ·
 Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) ·
 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
 

Television
Tales of Adventure (1952) ·
 The Undersea Adventures of Captain Nemo (1975) ·
 The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) ·
 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990) ·
 The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
 

Other
Captain Nemo ·
 Nautilus ·
 The Mysterious Island ·
 Journey Through the Impossible (play) ·
 The Secret of the Nautilus (video game) ·
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea DVD cover.jpg
Film poster

Directed by
Gabriel Bologna
Produced by
David Michael Latt
David Rimawi
Paul Bales

Written by
Eric Forsberg
Starring
Lorenzo Lamas
 Natalie Stone
Sean Lawlor
 Kim Little
Kerry Washington
 Declan Joyce
Music by
David Raiklin
Cinematography
Mark Atkins
Edited by
Matthew Alson Thornbury
Distributed by
The Asylum

Release dates

September 9, 2007


Running time
 90 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$500,000
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 2007 film that is a modern update on the classic book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It stars Lorenzo Lamas as Lt. Aronnaux and Sean Lawlor as the misanthropic Captain Nemo. It also stars Natalie Stone, Kerry Washington, and Kim Little.
The film is the first by The Asylum to be based on a Jules Verne novel, with Journey to the Center of the Earth following in 2008.
Plot[edit]
In this modern retelling of the classic science-fiction tale, Captain Nemo uses his high-tech submarine to wreak vengeance on the surface world.
This version takes place in the present day. It begins with the USS Scotia following strange radar traces near the Mariana Trench. The sub runs into trouble and is lost, though not before getting off a rescue beacon. The USS Abraham Lincoln finds the beacon and calls in the Aquanaut to assist in this deep-sea rescue. The Aquanaut, captained by Lt. Arronaux, has been developing a water-to-air converter that is thought to be useful in this sort of mission.
Command of the mission is, unfortunately, taken from Arronaux and given to Lt. Cmdr. Conceil (his ex-wife) who is presented as a "ball-buster" in contrast to Arronaux's confident but laid-back temperament. She and her assistant Blackwell are both administrative theoretical-techie types and end up stripping the Aquanaut of equipment that leave the Aquanaut in trouble as they descend to the level the Scotia is wrecked at. The equipment loss leads to the crew passing out for lack of oxygen.
They come to on board the Nautilus and meet an apparently charming Captain Nemo. It soon becomes clear that the good captain is a bit unhinged and tending towards megalomania. The Aquanaut's crew is imprisoned and brought out to be attached to a brainwashing machine. Arronaux escaped his escort to the holding pens and is loose to try and pull everyone out. He finds nuclear missiles from the Scotia in the process. He is found and aided by Cooper, another abducted sailor. The crew is able to make it back to their ship in an escape attempt but one is lost to Nemo's gunmen.
They find and board the Scotia, finding that Nemo lied and much of the Scotia's crew is still alive. Having reprogrammed the remote device Nemo had planted on the Aquanaut, the ship is then sent back to the Nautilus where it intercepts the missiles attempting to fire. The backlash scuttles the larger ship and it crashes into the underwater city of Lemuria, presumably with total losses. The Scotia is able to contact the Abraham Lincoln and the remainder of the rescue gets underway. Conseil shows Arronaux stolen plans of Nemo's ship.
Cast[edit]
Lorenzo Lamas as Lieutenant Aronnaux
Natalie Stone as Lieutenant Commander Conseil
Sean Lawlor as Captain Nemo
Kim Little as Specialist Sustin
Kerry Washington as Medical Officer Marissa Brau
Declan Joyce as Cooper
Isabella Cascarano as Beautiful Woman
Dorothy Drury as First Officer Clarke
External links[edit]
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea at AllMovie
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Internet Movie Database


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2000s adventure films
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea films
American science fiction films
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search


30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea DVD cover.jpg
Film poster

Directed by
Gabriel Bologna
Produced by
David Michael Latt
David Rimawi
Paul Bales

Written by
Eric Forsberg
Starring
Lorenzo Lamas
 Natalie Stone
Sean Lawlor
 Kim Little
Kerry Washington
 Declan Joyce
Music by
David Raiklin
Cinematography
Mark Atkins
Edited by
Matthew Alson Thornbury
Distributed by
The Asylum

Release dates

September 9, 2007


Running time
 90 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$500,000
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 2007 film that is a modern update on the classic book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It stars Lorenzo Lamas as Lt. Aronnaux and Sean Lawlor as the misanthropic Captain Nemo. It also stars Natalie Stone, Kerry Washington, and Kim Little.
The film is the first by The Asylum to be based on a Jules Verne novel, with Journey to the Center of the Earth following in 2008.
Plot[edit]
In this modern retelling of the classic science-fiction tale, Captain Nemo uses his high-tech submarine to wreak vengeance on the surface world.
This version takes place in the present day. It begins with the USS Scotia following strange radar traces near the Mariana Trench. The sub runs into trouble and is lost, though not before getting off a rescue beacon. The USS Abraham Lincoln finds the beacon and calls in the Aquanaut to assist in this deep-sea rescue. The Aquanaut, captained by Lt. Arronaux, has been developing a water-to-air converter that is thought to be useful in this sort of mission.
Command of the mission is, unfortunately, taken from Arronaux and given to Lt. Cmdr. Conceil (his ex-wife) who is presented as a "ball-buster" in contrast to Arronaux's confident but laid-back temperament. She and her assistant Blackwell are both administrative theoretical-techie types and end up stripping the Aquanaut of equipment that leave the Aquanaut in trouble as they descend to the level the Scotia is wrecked at. The equipment loss leads to the crew passing out for lack of oxygen.
They come to on board the Nautilus and meet an apparently charming Captain Nemo. It soon becomes clear that the good captain is a bit unhinged and tending towards megalomania. The Aquanaut's crew is imprisoned and brought out to be attached to a brainwashing machine. Arronaux escaped his escort to the holding pens and is loose to try and pull everyone out. He finds nuclear missiles from the Scotia in the process. He is found and aided by Cooper, another abducted sailor. The crew is able to make it back to their ship in an escape attempt but one is lost to Nemo's gunmen.
They find and board the Scotia, finding that Nemo lied and much of the Scotia's crew is still alive. Having reprogrammed the remote device Nemo had planted on the Aquanaut, the ship is then sent back to the Nautilus where it intercepts the missiles attempting to fire. The backlash scuttles the larger ship and it crashes into the underwater city of Lemuria, presumably with total losses. The Scotia is able to contact the Abraham Lincoln and the remainder of the rescue gets underway. Conseil shows Arronaux stolen plans of Nemo's ship.
Cast[edit]
Lorenzo Lamas as Lieutenant Aronnaux
Natalie Stone as Lieutenant Commander Conseil
Sean Lawlor as Captain Nemo
Kim Little as Specialist Sustin
Kerry Washington as Medical Officer Marissa Brau
Declan Joyce as Cooper
Isabella Cascarano as Beautiful Woman
Dorothy Drury as First Officer Clarke
External links[edit]
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea at AllMovie
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Internet Movie Database


[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea







































[show]
v ·
 t ·
 e
 
The Asylum films



































































































































































  


Categories: 2007 films
English-language films
2000s adventure films
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea films
American science fiction films
The Asylum films
Films using computer-generated imagery
Films directed by Gabriel Bologna




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