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Re: "The Extraaordinary Voyage of Jules Verne"

From: Tim Unwin <T.A.Unwin~at~bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:55:05 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

The recent BBC 2 production of 'The Extraordinary Voyage of Jules Verne'
broadcast on 20 March was not a re-run of the Graystone Productions title,
but a complete remake. While some of the original footage was used, the
script was extensively rewritten, and additional interview material was
included.

Tim Unwin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Taves" <btav~at~loc.gov>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: "The Estraaordinary Voyage of Jules Verne"


> I assume this is the 1995 production of the same title, produced by Martin
> Kent for Graystone Productions, which has played here widely on A&E on the
> series BIOGRAPHY.
>
> See my article
>
> "Les Récentes émissions documentaires sur Jules Verne à la
> télévision." Tr. Jean-Michel Margot. Bulletin de la Société Jules
> Verne. No. 125 (1998): 44-52.
>
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Norm Wolcott wrote:
>
> > The video of the above name showed on BBC2 a few weeks ago,
> > recommended to me by my informant (not a Verne scholar) as "very good,
> > displacing Saturday evening football, etc." The description follows:
> >
> > "The author of classics such as "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"
> > foresaw space missions, movie-making, and electronic communications.
> > Privately, howeer, the modest Frenchman was tormented by his
> > portentous powers. This one-off documentary reveals that the
> > significance of his work lies not only in his "inventions", but also
> > in his prophesies of the way society would develop -- and potentially
> > end. "
> >
> > If anyone has taped this program, it would be nice if we could show it
> > some way at the North American Jules Verne Society meeting in May in
> > Washington DC. Email me privately and maybe we can make arrangements
> > etc. Conversion from Pal, to DVD, VHS, playability, are all questions
> > to be resolved.
> >
> >
> > nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey, Sherwood
Forrest
>
>
>
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