As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
Direction
Zeman's cutout animation merged with live actors
Production
Every vehicle looks illustrated from Verne's own sketches
Cinematography
Black-and-white that somehow feels more colorful than color
Director
Karel Zeman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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