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Topic: 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA RESTORED
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Laksmi Breathwaite
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Posts: 771
From: Las Vegas
Registered: Nov 2010
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posted April 16, 2012 08:09 PM
Live Appearance by Kirk Douglas Introducing a New Restoration of
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) I was on hand to see the event.On Friday, April 13, at 2:45 p.m., Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas presented at Grauman's
Chinese Theatre for the first public screening of the newly restored 1954 adventure film epic,
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the first live-action feature film shot at Walt Disney's Burbank
studios. Disney recruited an A-list cast including Kirk Douglas, James Mason and Paul Lukas,
and a set budget of $9 million, the largest in Hollywood history at that time.
Walt Disney had originally planned to turn Jules Verne's tale of Captain Nemo's battle to wipe
out warfare into an animated feature. But when he saw designer Harper Goff's preliminary
sketches, he decided to make the switch to live action. To film the massive production - the
studio's first in CinemaScope - Disney added a water tank and a third soundstage to his
studio, rented additional space from 20th Century-Fox and Universal, and sent cast and crew
to the Caribbean for underwater shooting. His technicians also had to develop new equipment
for the film's many underwater scenes and create a giant, two-ton squid for the film's most
impressive sequence.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea went on to earn two Oscars®, one for the eye-popping visual
effects and one for John Meehan and Emile Kuri's art direction and set decoration. The film earned a third nomination for Elmo Williams' editing.
video http://youtu.be/3h5F-t1g8OU SUPER 8mm 200 foot reel box cover   
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 17, 2012 12:47 PM
Now THIS is a film I wouldn't mind actually buying a copy of on Blu-ray! I have the two disc DVD version, (with the deleted footage, unused animation and such.
What i would love to see Disney (and such) com panies do, is do REALLY special releases. Give us the restored original film, then, if there is archival footage, "deleted scenes", restore that footage as well. With a film like this one, expanding it a little further certainly wouldn't displease the lover of the film!
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Hugh Thompson Scott
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Posts: 3063
From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted April 17, 2012 02:52 PM
I remember at one of Deranns' Blackpool Dinners,they had a rep
from the Disney Corp. as the guest speaker,because Derek had just clinched the deal with the Disney features.Many questions
were fired at this young lady from the audience and very few
answers given back,I myself wanted to know if a feature release
of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" would be a possibility on S/8, then I thought, this young lady can't give any
answers as she doesn't know.Luckily,the following year at Blackpool I nailed
an IB Tech copy on 16mm from John Morris Jones who used to
have some great titles on 16mm at reasonable prices,this wasn't one of them as it was expensive, but well worth it in the
end.There is also the full feature on S/8 and it's from Italy.
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