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been filmed two and a half years since through its medium, into the weird climax of a fantastic romance.
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The episode was to constitute the climax as told in the picture. The three little sea dwellers became legion in a few minutes, so the screen disclosed. They had a king, and a city. They had warlike maces and a huge battering ram recovered from a submerged Roman galley. They walked on the bottom of the ocean, and they swam, living gayly in their own happy sphere.
Those who remember their Jules Verne will realize by this time that "The Mysterious Island," as it is coming to the screen, will have very little to do with the original plot. Indeed, it is changed utterly from the narrative of the balloonists who were marooned, and of Captain Nemo, of "Twenty Thousand Leagues" fame, his mother-of-pearl sea cavern and his electric bullets. However, I do not believe the alteration of the story will prove a momentous tragedy, since in many respects "The Mysterious Island," as Verne wrote it, was a sort of "Swiss Family Robinson," lacking a love theme and other need
Lloyd Hughes is the young assistant of the inventor, whose sister he loves.
Because the picture is entirely fanciful, the scientific paraphernalia is extremely imaginative.
Color photography will make the undersea episodes extraordinarily beautiful.
ful and dependable material for the film theater.
The plot that has been contrived for the picture is different, even, from the one planned two and a half years ago, when camera work was first started. An effort is to be made in the new version to achieve that rarest of all screen creations, a semiscientific romance. Practically the only precedent in recent years for this sort of thing has been the very popular "Lost World" — though ' ' Mysterious Island" is more fantastic than that — with its prehistoric animals discovered, on a remote South American plateau.
"The Mysterious Island" will have no prehistoric animals, but it will have plenty of fish. Enough, in fact, to make an aquarian jealous ! It will also introduce several new maritime beasts, including a supertype of octopus, and a sea dinosaur that will, so I am told, look like a mammoth lobster or crab, and inspire all the nightmares ordinarily associated with the normal size, plus a few more. Incidentally, this sea dinosaur will be blown to smithereens by a torpedo from a submarine.
The story of the picture concerns a scientist and inventor, Count Andre Dakkar, who lives in the mythical kingdom of Hetvia in the Balkans. His dwelling place is a castle on a "mysterious island," which serves to justify the picture's title.
In connection with some sort of political imbroglio, he has built two submarines — not the modern type, for the story is laid in 1845 — but craft purely imaginary in design, though embodying in various forms certain modern contrivances, like a