Walt went to England and I stayed in Burbank and made a story-board of a live action version of the classic using McGinnity's footage as a sort of ballet episode where Nemo shows Aronax the wonders of the deep.
Walt liked the story-board well enough to have me give an 'A. They were enthusiastic and the rest is history.
In motion pictures, the text of a classic like this subject is sacrosanct like the Bible! The 'word' of Jules Verne is not to be made light of, so the duty of the production designer like myself is to take the sometimes arbitary discriptions of the Nautilus as recorded by 'J.
Jules Verne while foreseeing brilliantly the atomic submarine of today, did not at that time invent the periscope, the torpedo tube, or sonar.
He did not prophesy closed curcut television. According to Verne, if Nemo wanted to see what was going on the surface, he simply poked the glass ports of the conning tower out of the depths and took a direct look. He risked his vessel, himself, and his crew by ramming the enemy at frightening speed. If he wanted to study the marvels of life under the surface, he reclined in his elegent bay window lounge, and passed the hours studying the marine life outside the amazing pressure proof window of his luxurious salon.
These items dictated much of the direction of my production designs. Nemo is quoted by Verne as telling Aronax that "I need no coal for my bunkers. I have instead harnessed the very building blocks of the material universe to heat my boilers and drive this craft". No one can doubt Verne meant Atomic Power. It is not sound economics to study and design obviously unnesscessary parts of the Nautilus if it will not appear on screen.
The crews quarters were thus unaccounted for. In Verne's original text Nemo from time to time leaves the chart room and steps directly into other diversified areas of the submarine. Directors do not like to slow down the action and clutter up a dramatic moment by showing actors leave a room, lift a hatch, enter another room.
At the time Captain Nemo constructed Nautilus on Mysterious Island, the iron riveted ship was the last word in marine construction. I have always thought rivet patterns were beautiful. I wanted no slick shelled moonship to transport Nemo thru the emerald deep and so fought and somehow got my way. On Mysterious Island Nemo had the white hot heat of a volcano to help him build his dreamship, but I am sure that flat iron plates profusely riveted would have been his way. His stock pile of material was always the countless sunken ships uniquely available to him alone.
Even the Greek amphora and the works of art that graced his great salon was salvaged from wrecks. The free diving suits - self-contained were developed by myself with the assistance of Fred Zender, and exceptionally able underwater man.
The helmets were souped-up Japanese pearl diving helmets. We masked the scuba gear, let water into the the helmet, put a breathing tube in our mouth, the clamps on our nose and one night in Freddie and I walked slowly from the shallow end to the deep end of the Santa Monica pool. Lead around our middle and 16 lbs. Many had predicted failure. This formed the basis of the suits that appeared in the film.
We spent 9 hrs. Instead, the scene was shot a second time, as if it was a stormy night, with backstage workers on hand providing the needed lightning, rain, turbulent seas, and hurricane winds, and everything worked much better.
Stars James Mason Capt. Aronnax , Peter Lorre Conseil. Locations for the film included the Disney and 20 th Century-Fox lots in California, and various locales in the Bahamas and Jamaica. The Nautilus was designed by Harper Goff. Ned is attacked by a shark when he attempts to steal a treasure from a sunken ship, after which Nemo reminds him that gold and jewelry worth nothing on the Nautilus.
Aronnax hits during the trip more and more impressed with Nemo's skills. Nemo reminds Aronnax that the secret of the Nautilus should never leak out of the ship, as the technology is far ahead of his time and in the wrong hands is a dangerous weapon. On a day shows Nemo Aronnax a penal colony and reveals that he and his crew also once prisoners were. When the Nautilus leaves, recommends Nemo first to sink a ship full of weapons.
He defends his action with the statement that he has saved thousands of lives if possible. For Aronnax is a revenge motive clear. Ned is an escape plan. He sneaks Nemo's hut in and finds a map showing the location of a deserted island that Nemo as port used.
He writes the coordinates on a piece of paper, stops this in a bottle and throws the bottle overboard in the hope that someone finds him. When the Nautilus temporarily get stuck on a coral reef off the coast of New Guinea , trying to escape from Ned. He flees back to the Nautilus when he runs into a group of cannibals.
Nemo let Ned locking up because of his escape attempt. When the Nautilus is freed by the flood of the coral reef, a warship that shoots a big hole in the hull. By the incoming water sinks the Nautilus to great depth and attracts the attention of a giant squid there. The monster follows the Nautilus to the surface, where a fight breaks loose. In the fight is Nemo seized by one of the tentacles, but rescued by Ned.
When the Nautilus Nemo's Island is approaching, turns out to be this surrounded by warships. On the island itself see Nemo and his crew a large number of soldiers. Nemo decides to destroy rather than its port his inventions to drop into the wrong hands.
When he returns to the Nautilus , he is mortally wounded by a bullet. Drag itself back to the seriously injured Nautilus and Nemo to the seabed with the aim of the Nautilus there for good to rest. With his last words he announces that if he dies, the Nautilus also will die.
Its crew remains faithful to the end him. Aronnax, Conseil and Ned are against this massive suicide. Ned escapes to the crew and sends the Nautilus top. Along the way he Rams a reef and causes a big crack in the wall of the ship. Ned saves Aronnax and Conseil and the three escape in a lifeboat. The Nautilus sinks away. Ned, Aronnax and Conseil In the lifeboat see how the island explodes with a large mushroom cloud as a result.
In Jules Verne completed his novel twenty thousand leagues under the sea. The book was released in two parts and thus become a classic. Although there were appeared in Verne's time, all submarines that are not on the advanced submarine that plays the leading role in twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
As usual, Verne was ahead of its time. Thirty-five years the idea of Verne's novel to film popped up on in the United States. It was Designer Harper Goff who for the Disney Studios worked on the plans for a Disneyland amusement park, went on to play with that idea. He got inspiration when Walt Disney asked him to view recordings that could possibly be used underwater for a Disney nature documentary. Goff made sketches for a story board for the documentary and then got inspiration for making film about twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
He made a series of sketches based on a scene from the book where the seabed is explored. He discussed the idea with Disney which, however, said it was impossible to film the book of Verne because M-G-M possessed the rights. Still, the idea now also in Disneys spirit roaming around. He did ask and it turned out that M-G-M had the rights not at all, in fact, that they were on sale.
Disney acquired the rights and in started the preproduction of a cartoon around twenty thousand leagues under the sea. In the fall of began to change Disney's idea and he tended to the film not as a cartoon, but with real actors.
It was a tough decision, because the cost for such production were high. Disney already had experience with movies with real actors, such as Treasure Island and The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men , but those were at low cost included in England with British actors. Twenty thousand leagues under the sea would be a movie with a multimillion budget with big American stars and included in the Disney studio in the us.
Since that studio was equipped for making cartoons would there need to be invested in new equipment and personnel. At the same time, Disney was working on the plans for Disneyworld and here were the costs are high. Finally saw the Disney cartoon and decided to make a feature-length film around Verne's book.
There had to be a scenario and now a Director. For the latest feature in view of Disneys fell Richard Fleischer. Fleischer itself was surprised at the offer, after all, his father Max Fleischer was the largest competitor in the field of animated films.
He asked, therefore, Disney or that he knew that Max Fleischers son. Trivia Last film of Alan Hume. Goofs Most of the books lining the shelves in Captain Nemo's library are Readers Digest condensed book collections. This is particularly evident in closer shots; no attempt is made to disguise the distinctive Readers Digest binding. Quotes Sophie Arronax : Murderer! Connections Version of 20, Leagues Under the Sea User reviews 26 Review. Top review. A nice afternoon film. When I saw that this film was going to be shown on Channel 5 one afternoon, my first thought was why have I heard of this version before and where?
That is a reason to watch this film alone. It is not supposed to be believable but it was doing quite well until the giant seafish appeared and from then it went slightly downhill. Ben Cross as Captain Nemo is a wonderful baddie although you are left with the question is he that bad?
Ally May 26,
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