"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985 film) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1985 Australian made-for-television animated film from Burbank Films Australia. The film is based on Jules Verne's classic novel, ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", and was adapted by Stephen MacLean. It was produced by Tim Brooke-Hunt and featured original music by John Stuart. The copyright in this film is now owned by Pulse Distribution and Entertainment and administered by digital rights management firm NuTech Digital. In the year 1866, a mysterious sea-monster is hunting the depths of the oceans and rising only to attack and destroy"
"1869 and almost all the rebel leaders had submitted to Ottoman rule though some, notably the pro-Russian Hadjimichaelis, remained in exile in Greece. The Cretan revolt is referenced in Jules Verne's novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", written while the revolt was going on. Verne's Captain Nemo is mentioned as using his submarine ""Nautilus"" to provide ""4,000 lb. weight of gold"" to the rebels. This passage clearly indicates the sympathy of Verne to the rebels' cause. The revolt is mentioned in the novel ""Freedom and Death"" by Nikos Kazantzakis. In this work, the explosion of the monastery is attributed"
"the January Uprising; but Verne's editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel feared a book ban in the Russian market and offending a French ally, the Russian Empire, and had Verne obscure Nemo's motivation in the first book. In the second book of ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea"", Nemo comes close to revealing his Indian ancestry, though this is not obvious except in retrospect, where he saves a Ceylonese pearl-fisher in the Gulf of Mannar. ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" was written between 1869 and 1870 and records the voyages of the ""Nautilus"" between 1866 and 1868. ""The Mysterious Island"" was written"
"Lewis Page Mercier Reverend Lewis Page Mercier (9 January 1820 – 2 November 1875) is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" and ""From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It"". To avoid a conflict of interest with his position as chaplain, Mercier wrote under the pen names of Louis Mercier, MA (Oxon) and Mercier Lewis. In 1871, the publishers Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington acquired the English rights to several of Jules Verne's books. For their"
"Lewis Page Mercier Reverend Lewis Page Mercier (9 January 1820 – 2 November 1875) is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" and ""From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It"". To avoid a conflict of interest with his position as chaplain, Mercier wrote under the pen names of Louis Mercier, MA (Oxon) and Mercier Lewis. In 1871, the publishers Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington acquired the English rights to several of Jules Verne's books. For their"
"Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (; ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Jules Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ""Voyages extraordinaires"", a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including ""Journey to the Center of the Earth"" (1864), ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870), and ""Around the World"
"version of the story released in 1916 and later in both the graphic novel and the movie ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"". In Walt Disney's ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954), a live-action Technicolor film version of the novel, Captain Nemo is a European, bitter because his wife and son were tortured to death by those in power in the fictional prison camp of Rura Penthe, in an effort to get Nemo to reveal his scientific secrets. This is Nemo's motivation for sinking warships in the film. Also, Nemo's submarine is confined to a set circular section of the Pacific"
"such violent tidal surges: Three of the most notable literary references to the Lofoten Maelstrom date from the nineteenth century. The first is the Edgar Allan Poe short story ""A Descent into the Maelström"" (1841). The second is ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870), the famous novel by Jules Verne. At the end of this novel, Captain Nemo seems to commit suicide, sending his ""Nautilus"" submarine into the Maelstrom (although in Verne's sequel Nemo and the Nautilus were seen to have survived). The ""Norway maelstrom"" is also mentioned in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"". In the 'Life of St Columba', the author,"
"they edited before making a change. According to the new, full translation put out by the Naval Institute Press, nearly all errors can be attributed to the editors, with only a few being the fault of Jules Verne, who was otherwise meticulous. The inconsistency of the dates between ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" and ""The Mysterious Island"" is perhaps evidence in this argument, as it seems unlikely that Verne would make such an obvious gaffe. The ""Nautilus"" goes down in the Maelstrom on June 2, 1868, according to ""20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"", but may have survived. (""The Mysterious"
"Cultural influence of Jules Verne Jules Verne (1828–1905), the French writer best known for his ""Voyages extraordinaires"" series, has had a wide influence in both scientific and literary fields. The pioneering submarine designer Simon Lake credited his inspiration to ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", and his autobiography begins ""Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life."" William Beebe, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Ballard found similar early inspiration in the novel, and Jacques Cousteau called it his ""shipboard bible"". The aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont named Verne as his favorite author and the inspiration for his own"
"rigorous taxonomy; instead they are approximate ways of characterizing stories that reviewers and commentators have found useful. Stories revolving around scientific and technical consistency were written as early as the 1870s with the publication of Jules Verne's ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" in 1870 and ""Around the World in Eighty Days"" in 1873, among other stories. The attention to detail in Verne's work became an inspiration for many future scientists and explorers, although Verne himself denied writing as a scientist or seriously predicting machines and technology of the future. Hugo Gernsback believed from the beginning of his involvement with"
"title; the French title actually means ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas""). In the Argyle Press/Hurst and Company 1892 Arlington Edition, the translation and editing mistakes attributed to Mercier are missing. Scaphandre is correctly translated as ""diving apparatus"" and not as ""cork-jackets"". Although the book cover gives the title as ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", the title page titles the book ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; Or, The Marvelous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Arronax, Conseil His Servant, and Ned Land a Canadian Harpooner"". A modern translation was produced in 1966 by Walter James Miller and published by"
"Atlantis in popular culture The mythical island of Atlantis has often been depicted in books, television shows, films and other creative works of popular culture. Before 1900 there was an overlap between verse epics dealing with the fall of Atlantis and novels with a pretension to fine writing which are now regarded as pioneering genre fiction. Jules Verne’s ""20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"" (1869/71) includes a visit to sunken Atlantis aboard Captain Nemo's submarine ""Nautilus"". In Elizabeth Birkmaier's ""Poseidon's Paradise: the Romance of Atlantis"" (San Francisco 1892), the island sinks following an earthquake. C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne also depicted the"
"being the one behind the quakes. Floyd C. Gale wrote that the book was ""Frankly and honestly, a gee-whiz yarn, it reaches its target—youngsters—with plenty of mystery, action and suspense"". Undersea Trilogy The Undersea Trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by American writers Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson. The novels were first published by Gnome Press beginning in 1954. The novels were collected in a single omnibus volume published by Baen Books in 1992. The story takes place in and around the underwater dome city called Marinia. The hero of the stories is cadet Jim Eden of"
"divers from many countries, notably Japan. In 1978 an agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea determined the maritime border in the Torres Strait. Torres Strait is mentioned in Jules Verne's ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" as a dangerous strait where the submarine, the ""Nautilus"", is briefly stranded. The people of the Torres Strait have a unique indigenous culture which has drawn the interest of a range of anthropological, historical, archaeological and folklorist researchers (both professional and amateur). This includes an expedition from Cambridge University led by the early ethnographer Alfred Haddon in 1898 and the more contemporary regional"
"Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's novels, ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870) and ""The Mysterious Island"" (1874), and makes a cameo appearance in Verne's play ""Journey Through the Impossible"" (1882). Nemo is a mysterious figure. The son of an Indian Raja, he is a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the ""Nautilus"", which was built in pieces all over the world and shipped to the builder. Nemo tries"
"were to prove an essential component of Britain's wealth. The naval victory at Vigo, therefore, made an indirect but powerful contribution to Britain's 18th century prosperity. On 10 August 1990 after being surveyed by sonar side scan on behalf of '5º Centenario' (Spanish Government 500th anniversary of America's discovery) remains of the wreckage 'Santo Cristo de Maracaibo' were found off the Cíes Islands by R.O.V submarine at 79 metres depth, Contractor: Hidrografic S.A., Tarragona, Surveyor and R.O.V. Pilot: Olaf Hingst, Vessel: 'Potela Seis', Vigo. The battle is referred to in Jules Verne's novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"". The"
"the book from the initial concept is a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish national hero, leader of the uprising against Russia in 1794, with an inscription in Latin: ""Finis Poloniae!"" (""The end of Poland!""). Margaret Drabble argues that ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" anticipated the ecology movement and shaped the French avant-garde. Theodore L. Thomas in 1961 said that ""there is not a single bit of valid speculation"" in the novel and that ""none of its predictions has come true"". He described the depictions of the diving gear, scenes, and the ""Nautilus"" as ""pretty bad, behind the times"
"have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is Captain Nemo, though Verne's ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" is set in the second half of the nineteenth century. He is also comparable to a degree to Ragnar Danneskjold, a libertarian pirate in the Ayn Rand novel ""Atlas Shrugged"", which is spoofed in the chronicles as """"Telemachus Sneezed"""". Like Danneskjold, Hagbard participates in the black market, exploiting and resisting governments, and both characters have Norwegian roots. Hagbard is a notorious prankster and liar (telling one character not to trust anyone with the initials H.C.). This character trait is displayed throughout ""Illuminatus!"". Celine"
"place in the biblical period and dealing with biblical topics, Haskalah-era writers began to find it more and more difficult to write about contemporary topics. This was due mostly to the lack of a broad and modern vocabulary, meaning translating books about science and mathematics or European literature was difficult. Although an earlier, little known attempt at scientific writing was made when Israel Wolf Sperling translated Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1877 and 1878, this barrier was breached with more lasting effect in the 1880s by a writer named"
"first work Sampson Low & Co. chose ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" published in November, 1872, with the translator Rev. Lewis Page Mercier (1820–1875), B.A. Oxon., 1841, M.A. 1855. Born on 9 January 1820 (christened 7 February 1820, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London,) the only son of Francis Michael Jacob Mercier, Lewis Mercier came of French Huguenot stock; his grandfather was pastor of the French Protestant church in Threadneedle Street, London. He almost certainly spoke French at home as a child, and may have been one of the few native French speakers to translate Verne. The family was located"
"public-domain translation, which is available from a number of sources, notably a recent edition with the title ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" (). In 2010 Walter released a fully revised, newly researched translation with the title ""20,000 Leagues Under the Seas"" — part of an omnibus of five of his Verne translations titled ""Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics"" and published by State University of New York Press. In 1998 William Butcher issued a new, annotated translation from the French original, published by Oxford University Press, , with the title ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"". He includes detailed notes,"
"Jules' Undersea Lodge Jules' Undersea Lodge is an American hotel located in Key Largo, Florida and is the only underwater hotel in the United States. It is 30 feet (9 m) deep on the ocean floor and guests have to scuba dive to get to their rooms. The hotel is located at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon and was opened in 1986. The hotel’s name comes from the novelist Jules Verne, author of ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"". Scuba certification is required for entrance as the front door is located under water. Jules’ Undersea Lodge was formerly the La"
"Thousand Leagues Under the Sea""). In a late interview, Verne affirmed that Hetzel's ambitious commission had become the running literary theme of his novel sequence: However, Verne made clear that his own object was more literary than scientific, saying ""I do not in any way pose as a scientist"" and explaining in another interview: In the system developed by Hetzel for the ""Voyages Extraordinaires"", each of Verne's novels was published successively in several different formats. This resulted in as many as four distinct editions of each text (labeled here according to current practice for Verne bibliographies): Jules Verne remains to"
"the poem after reading Jules Verne's novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", which had recently been published in book form, and which is known to have been the source of many of the poem's allusions and images. Another Verne novel, ""The Adventures of Captain Hatteras"", was likely an additional source of inspiration. The poem is arranged in a series of 25 alexandrine quatrains with an ""a/b/a/b"" rhyme-scheme. It is woven around the delirious visions of the eponymous boat, swamped and lost at sea. It was considered revolutionary in its use of imagery and symbolism. One of the longest and"
"in the novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea"" by Jules Verne. On 13 April 1867 the ship is accidentally struck by the submarine : ""Two and a half metres below the water-line appeared a neat hole in the form of an isosceles triangle."" Thanks to its watertight compartments, ""Scotia"" makes it safely to Liverpool. In the second Sherlock Holmes: The Legend Begins book, the SS Scotia is the ship Sherlock and his accomplices travel on. RMS Scotia Scotia was a British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line that won the Blue Riband in 1863 for the fastest westbound"
"continued for a run of six novels in all: Regarding Riou's work for ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", Verne wrote in 1868: ""I have received the drawings from Riou. I have several suggestions to make which I’ll mention to him by return mail. I think he needs to make the people much smaller and the rooms much larger. And he needs to add much more detail... By the way, it was an excellent idea to use Colonel Charras as the model for Captain Nemo. I should’ve thought of that."" The illustrator and Verne scholar Ron Miller has said: ""I"
"USS H-2 (SS-29) USS ""H-2"" (SS-29) was a ""H""-class submarine. She was originally named ""Nautilus"", the third ship and first submarine of the United States Navy to bear the name, which was derived from a Greek word meaning ""sailor"" or ""ship."" The nautilus is also a tropical mollusk having a many-chambered, spiral shell with a pearly interior. It was also the name of the fictional submarine in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea which was prophetic of submarine technology. ""Nautilus"" was laid down by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California. She was renamed H-2 on"
"the time of ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea""'s publication, this was worth 4.6 billion francs, or $18.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2018. Nemo tells Professor Aronnax that his intention was to have his autobiography sealed in an unsinkable casket and thrown overboard by the last survivor of the ""Nautilus""'s crew, in the hope that it would be washed up somewhere. Accordingly an unsinkable casket does wash up in ""The Mysterious Island"" (wherein is revealed Nemo's background story), containing tools, guns, navigation instruments, an atlas, books, blank paper, and even clothing. The crate is lashed to empty barrels, and the"
"Undersea Trilogy The Undersea Trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by American writers Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson. The novels were first published by Gnome Press beginning in 1954. The novels were collected in a single omnibus volume published by Baen Books in 1992. The story takes place in and around the underwater dome city called Marinia. The hero of the stories is cadet Jim Eden of the Sub-Sea Academy. Undersea Quest is the first volume of the trilogy. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1954 in an edition of 5,000 copies. Intrigue surrounds the"
"Captain Nemo (miniseries) Captain Nemo () is a 1975 Soviet three-part television miniseries directed by Vasily Levin loosely based on the novels ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", its sequel ""The Mysterious Island"" and ""The Steam House"" by Jules Verne. The second half of the 19th century. An unknown sea monster has been destroying and damaging warships of different countries for the last two years; those of them who get to the port find giant triangular holes in the sides. Sailing under threat, the United States equips the Blue Star military frigate to find and destroy the monster. Famous for"
"men were killed by the local inhabitants, while the surviving sailors built a smaller vessel and left the island, but were never seen again. Those that remained on the island died before search parties arrived in 1826. Jules Verne dedicates a chapter of his novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" to this event. Author Naomi Williams' novel ""Landfalls"" explores the Lapérouse expedition in depth. Vanikoro Vanikoro (sometimes wrongly named ""Vanikolo"") is an island in the Santa Cruz group, located to the Southeast of the main Santa Cruz group. It is part of the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands."
"magazine. (The manuscript, believed lost for some time after Verne's death, was finally published in 1994.) The relationship between publisher and writer changed significantly around 1869, when Verne and Hetzel were brought into conflict over the manuscript for ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"". Verne had initially conceived of the submariner Captain Nemo as a Polish scientist whose acts of vengeance were directed against the Russians who had killed his family during the January uprising. Hetzel, not wanting to alienate the lucrative Russian market for Verne's books, demanded that Nemo be made an enemy of the slave trade, a situation"