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Re: Russian Mysterious Island Movie

From: <crmoser~at~shaw.ca>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:04:45 -0700
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

There may be a video - but all I have is a Quick Time clip which I downloaded a few years ago . Sorry but I forget which site the clip came from

Chris
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  From: Marie-Helene Huet (mhhuet~at~Princeton.EDU)
  To: Jules Verne Forum
  Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:51 AM
  Subject: Re: Russian Mysterious Island Movie


  Is there a video one can buy? I would love to see it.

  MH Huet

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Steve <steveseg~at~aol.com>
  Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:43 am
  Subject: Re: Russian Mysterious Island Movie
  To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il

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> have you seen the Russian version of " The Mysterious Island " ?
> It seems to be by far the most faithful to the book
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> I have seen it and I concur. I believe it was filmed while WW II
> raged. Amazing!
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> Steve S.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: crmoser <crmoser~at~shaw.ca>
> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 30, 2011 8:33 am
> Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows
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> Drake - have you seen the Russian version of " The Mysterious
> Island " ? It seems to be by far the most faithful to the book
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> Chris
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Drake Lolley
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows
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> Alex,
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> Thanks for the correction! I should have looked closer at the
> dates... I have already listed to the 1938 recording, and I
> enjoyed the parts that they lift in, and lamented the parts that
> they left out. Obviously, it was impossible to fit the entire book
> into one radio program, and so many portions were very briefly
> summarized "journal entry" style. It sounds like the 1946
> recording might be more interesting from a comedic point of view;
> I'm glad that I listened to the earlier version!
> By the way, I have found a radio adaption of "The Mysterious
> Island", which is my favorite Jules Verne book. I have just
> started listening to it, so let's hope that the plot is not badly
> mangled. Unfortunately, I have had some very bad experiences with
> Mysterious Island adaptions in the past, particularly in movies.
> Thanks again!
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> Drake
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> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:47 -0700 (PDT), Alex Kirstukas wrote:
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> Hi Drake,
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> Just a quick note -- Welles's 1938 recording isn't the same as his
> 1946 one. The former is a straightforward adaptation of 80D (the
> Stephen W. White translation); the latter is a condensed version
> of, and long commercial for, Welles's Broadway musical Around the
> World (songs by Cole Porter, adaptation again from the White
> translation). Both are interesting, but rather strange; the 1938
> Aouda sounds like Natasha Fatale from The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show,
> and the 1946 Cole Porter songs are extremely silly. ("Phileas" is
> made to rhyme with "Piccadilly-ous," and the big romantic number
> is built around the line "Should I tell you that I love you, or
> wait till you tell me?"!)
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> Alex
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> From: Drake Lolley
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows
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> Mr. Keeline,
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> Thank you for your reply! The only "vintage" recording of a Jules
> Verne radio drama that I could find on Archive.org was here:
> http://www.archive.org/details/1946MercurySummerTheatre
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> This was, of course, the same recording that was kindly brought to
> light earlier by Mr. Kytasaari.
> I have done some more research into the matter since my last post,
> and I have unearthed a few more available vintage recordings. I
> don't know if this is a topic that interests anyone else here on
> the forum, but I will try to post my findings. It would be great
> to see all of these recordings in one place! This may be one of my
> future projects.
> I have looked into librivox and other similar services in the
> past, but unfortunately I have not had much luck with them. Being
> a speed reader, I found that the slow reading pace of many of the
> recordings was very trying to the nerves! This, of course, was my
> fault and not theirs, and I greatly admire the spirit of these
> projects... I have just found that reading the actual book is
> easier for me. I greatly appreciate that you took the time to look
> up these sources, though. Thank you!
>
> Drake
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> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:26:39 -0700 (PDT), James Keeline wrote:
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> Not quite in the classic radio drama class but more like "books on
> tape" are the readings offered free on http://www.LibriVox.org
> which are performed by amateurs. Some are better than others, of
> course. The Verne titles may be found on this search:
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> https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?author=Jules+Verne
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> Archive.org has many radio dramas but I don't notice any of the
> vintage ones on this Jules Verne search. There may be other items
> of interest though:
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> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22Jules%20Verne%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio
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> At the very least you could fill up your iPod or other MP3 player
> with these readings available in several languages.
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> James D. Keeline
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> http://www.Keeline.com
> http://Stratemeyer.org
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> From: Brian Taves
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows
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> Years ago I traced the English-language radio-audio adaptations of
> JV. My definition included from an dramatized version, to a
> condensation read by a single reader, but excluded straightforward
> readings of by a single individual of an entire novel, ie book-on-
> tape or audio book.
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> The total was around fifty, from the early days of radio in the
> 1930s, thru the present. I know that there are at least that many
> and more broadcast in such countries as France, Germany, and the
> former Czechoslovakia.
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