Vynález zkázy (1958)
AKA: Weapons of Destruction
The Fabulous World Of Jules Verne
Director: Karel Zeman
Genre: Fantasy, Surrealist animation, Adventure
Runtime: 83 min
Country: Czechoslovakia
Language: Czech
Subs: Unavailable atm...
Color: Black and White
Keywords: weapons, aristocrat, conquest, daughter, inventor, kidnap, love, sabotage, scientist, shuttle, submarine, bad-guy, domination-of-earth, good-guy, good-vs-evil
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052374/
The gloriously larger-than-life Czech fantasy Vynalez Zkaky (Weapons of Destruction) was based on a novel by Jules Verne. Set during the 19th century Industrial Revolution, the film concerns the efforts of the villainous Count Artigas (Miloslav Holub) to conquer the world with the aid of futuristic inventions created by kidnapped scientist Professor Thomas (Arnost Navratil). Having fallen in love with the professor's virtuous, resourceful daughter Jeanne (Jana Zatloukalova), stalwart hero Simon (Lubor Tokos) does his best to sabotage Artigas' schemes. Props essential to the action include a fished-shaped submarine, bicycle-style undersea shuttlecraft, and an impossibly huge cannon, secreted on a volcanic island. Curiously, when Vynalez Zkaky was unveiled to the world at the 1958 Brussels Film Festival, reviewers downplayed its most striking visual aspect: throughout the film, the art direction and special effects are brilliantly rendered in the style of 19th century engravings and woodcuts. In 1961, an English-dubbed version of Vynalez Zkaky, with character names changed and a few minutes' footage excised, was released in the US as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne. — Hal Erickson
Czechoslovakian animator Karel Zeman has created a number of feature films noted for their creativity and for blending live-action with animation and wonderful special effects. Born and raised in Moravia, he started out dressing windows and painting posters. From there Zeman made a few advertising films. In the mid-'40s, he created Mr. Prokouk the Bureaucrat, a popular cartoon character. He also began making short films and experimenting with different types of animation using drawings and puppet figures. Zeman began making feature films such as The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1957) and Baron Munchausen (1962). — Sandra Brennan
Vynález zkázy is regarded as the best work of Karel Zeman, although I think that it is largely subjective, because his further movies are not too worse. However, here he for the first time used a special, willfully naive stylization that combines live actors and real landscape with animated models and painted background. This style was inspired by pictures of Rion and Bennet, two painters, who made illustrations for the first editions of Verne's books, and by mute movies of French director Georges Mélies from the beginning of the 20th century.
This film is a world of wonders, containing a plethora of fantastic air, undersea, and earthbound inventions, plus a giant laboratory in a volcanic crater and an epic slugfest with a giant squid. The ingenious inventor of a powerful explosive is abducted by a Captain Nemo-like count who carries him off to a mysterious island, where he plans to put his invention to evil use. But the inventor’s faithful assistant comes to the rescue, foiling the villain’s plans to conquer the world. This film—the first to feature Zeman’s unique combination of actors, puppets, and cartoons based on the original steel-engraved illustrations of Verne’s novels—earned him an Expo Award at the 1958 Brussels Expo, as well as several prizes at festivals in France.
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