julesverne &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:julesverne @settima@zirk.us Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:34:05 +0200 Le voyage dans la lune [A Trip to the Moon] (Georges Méliès, 1902) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1k7l <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le voyage dans la lune [A Trip to the Moon] (Georges Méliès, 1902)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" Apollo 17/div div class="img" Le voyage dans la lune (1902).gif)/div div class="caption" A gif from the hand-coloured edition that is now in the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Poor Mister Moon has the adventures' rocket stuck in his eye. DPs: Théophile Michault & Lucien Tainguy./div div class="txt" The Moon (any moon) to commemorate the end of the final man-manned moon landing. "Laugh, my friends. Laugh with me, laugh for me, because I dream for you." ### – Georges Méliès, 1937 In true Méliès style, a wild menagerie of showgirls and scientists meet on the Moon in this groundbreaking sci-fi spectacle. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #Apollo17 #Moon #moons #GeorgesMéliès #JulesVerne #HGWells #VictorAndré #BleuetteBernon #Brunnet #JehanneDAlcy #ThéophileMichault #LucienTainguy #SciFi #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #fantasy #adventure #BookAdaptation #France #1910s ★★★★½ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

Le voyage dans la lune [A Trip to the Moon] (Georges Méliès, 1902)

Dec

19

Apollo 17

Le voyage dans la lune (1902)

A gif from the hand-coloured edition that is now in the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Poor Mister Moon has the adventures' rocket stuck in his eye. DPs: Théophile Michault & Lucien Tainguy.

The Moon (any moon) to commemorate the end of the final man-manned moon landing.

“Laugh, my friends. Laugh with me, laugh for me, because I dream for you.”

– Georges Méliès, 1937

In true Méliès style, a wild menagerie of showgirls and scientists meet on the Moon in this groundbreaking sci-fi spectacle.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #Apollo17 #Moon #moons #GeorgesMéliès #JulesVerne #HGWells #VictorAndré #BleuetteBernon #Brunnet #JehanneDAlcy #ThéophileMichault #LucienTainguy #SciFi #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #fantasy #adventure #BookAdaptation #France #1910s ★★★★½ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-1k7l Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:20:00 +0100 Tajemství hradu v Karpatech [The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians] (Oldřich... https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tajemstvi-hradu-v-karpatech-1981 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Tajemství hradu v Karpatech [The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians] (Oldřich Lipský, 1981)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" 1897/div div class="img" Tajemství hradu v Karpatech (1981)/div div class="caption" A calendar – undeniably designed by the great Jan Švankmajer – with the date October 27, 1897, set on the day of – or referencing a saint – Sabina. Screenshot via DVDBeaver. DP: Viktor Růžička./div div class="txt" – You surely know that my financial support is unlimited. – Yes. Long live your false cheque factories! /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #October #OldřichLipský #MichalDočolomanský #EvelynaSteimarová #JanHartl #JanŠvankmajer #RudolfHrušínský #LubošFišer #ViktorRůžička #SciFi #fantasy #comedy #JulesVerne #Carpathians #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Tajemství hradu v Karpatech [The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians] (Oldřich Lipský, 1981)

Oct

27

1897

Tajemství hradu v Karpatech (1981)

A calendar – undeniably designed by the great Jan Švankmajer – with the date October 27, 1897, set on the day of – or referencing a saint – Sabina. Screenshot via DVDBeaver. DP: Viktor Růžička.

– You surely know that my financial support is unlimited.

– Yes. Long live your false cheque factories!

#FilmDuJour #October #OldřichLipský #MichalDočolomanský #EvelynaSteimarová #JanHartl #JanŠvankmajer #RudolfHrušínský #LubošFišer #ViktorRůžička #SciFi #fantasy #comedy #JulesVerne #Carpathians #BookAdaptation #Czechoslovakia #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tajemstvi-hradu-v-karpatech-1981 Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0100 Vynález zkázy (1958) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/vynalez-zkazy-1958 <![CDATA[Vynález zkázy (1958) Vynález zkázy (1958) ### April 11: ride a #submarine on #NationalSubmarineDav Vynález zkázy [A Deadly Invention] (Karel Zeman, 1958) “Jules Verne was a dreamer. He was a dedicated follower of technology, but he saw it through his own eyes, and the eyes of his time. But with his vast imagination, he created a whole world of magical things imbued with a delightful naiveté, which charms us even today.” —Karel Zeman Karel Zeman was a Czech film maker who seemingly magically combined live action with stop motion animation. In his Vynález zkázy, loosely based on Jules Verne's Face au Drapeau [Facing the Flag aka For the Flag] (1896), a fiendish count kidnaps a professor to get his hands on a terrible super-weapon. Underwater pursuits commence! Vynález zkázy (1958) Based on the engravings that accompany the Verne story, Zeman came up with fantastic, highly stylised in-camera effects that make the sets, actors and props resemble cross-hatched etchings. That's more than enough words for such a spectacle. Watch a href="https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ZLfe5xad4U"the trailer/a #Bales2023FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #JulesVerne #LuborTokos #StopMotion #animation #fantasy #adventure #SciFi #BookAdaptation #trailer #Czechoslovakia #1950s ★★★½ ToDo]]> Vynález zkázy (1958)

Vynález zkázy (1958)

April 11: ride a #submarine on #NationalSubmarineDav

Vynález zkázy [A Deadly Invention] (Karel Zeman, 1958)

“Jules Verne was a dreamer. He was a dedicated follower of technology, but he saw it through his own eyes, and the eyes of his time. But with his vast imagination, he created a whole world of magical things imbued with a delightful naiveté, which charms us even today.” —Karel Zeman

Karel Zeman was a Czech film maker who seemingly magically combined live action with stop motion animation. In his Vynález zkázy, loosely based on Jules Verne's Face au Drapeau [Facing the Flag aka For the Flag] (1896), a fiendish count kidnaps a professor to get his hands on a terrible super-weapon. Underwater pursuits commence!

Vynález zkázy (1958)

Based on the engravings that accompany the Verne story, Zeman came up with fantastic, highly stylised in-camera effects that make the sets, actors and props resemble cross-hatched etchings.

That's more than enough words for such a spectacle. Watch the trailer

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #KarelZeman #JulesVerne #LuborTokos #StopMotion #animation #fantasy #adventure #SciFi #BookAdaptation #trailer #Czechoslovakia #1950s ★★★½

#ToDo

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