http://www.scienceplusfiction.org daily 3 2005-11-16T15:01:27Z http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/deux_cents_mille_lieues_sous_les_mers_en An humble fisherman falls asleep and dreams that the fairy of the ocean appears and escorts him to the port where a super-submarine awaits him. He is made captain of the vessel, and begins his voyage. Through the large windows he observes the wrecked hulks that litter the ocean floor, and the strange life around him. Suddenly the submarine crashes into a wreck, and the captain finds himself fighting gigantic crabs, seahorses, and a huge octopus. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:17Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/avventure_straordinarissime_saturnino_farandola_en Saturnino, consigned as Moses to the waves of the ocean by his parents, who die in the shipwreck of a sailing-ship, lands on Monkey Island. The Primates adopt him and teach him how to communicate and to behave like them. This is how the adventures of Saturnino Farandola start: they are almost a summa of the “most extraordinaire adventures” that all the children imagine to be the heroes of. A homage to the art of the master Méliès. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:17Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/voyage_a_travers_impossible_en Engineer Mabouloff proposes that the savants of the Institute of Incoherent Geography sponsor the greatest exploration expedition ever undertaken, for which he has designed a combination of railroad train, engine, automobile, airship and submarine, and soon the vehicles are under construction at a gigantic foundry. The itinerary is Paris-Righi-Sun, and the party consists of 12 professors and their wives. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:17Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/dirigeable_vole_en Five young boys take off in a lighter-than-air machine from the Centenary Exposition in Prague in 1891. As the adult world races to copy the invention for their own evil purposes, the boys land on an uncharted island. The five boys survive against pirates, Captain Nemo, and the elements of nature in this engaging adventure story from Jules Verne, liberally adapted from his well known novel Deux ans de vacances. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:17Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/deadly_invention At the end of the 19th century, the inventor Professor Roch and his assistant Hart develop an explosive strong enough to replace the energy to be had from oil and coal. The plot involves the rich villain Artigas, who seeks to acquire the substance, a Nautilus-type submarine, a deserted volcanic island harbouring a pirate city built in a crater, a hidden lake with a super sophisticated laboratory on the shore, a rocket-firing cannon. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:17Z Entry