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Re: Russian Mysterious Island Movie

From: dumitrescu <emil34~at~earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Hi Marie. Two years ago when I brought up to JVR  the discussion about  the Russian Mysterious Island Movie I made it available to any  members free of charge. So whoever wanted to watch it  I sent a copy (DVD).Although It was made in the first months of the german invasion they really tried very hard to reproduce all the pictures of the book  which is  almost unheard of.The movie is not  100% accurate( but is very close).Anyway  since then no other movie even got closer to that standard( I have seen almost all of them, east and west) it makes it a  real  exception .There are some over optimistic views due the the Stalinist era  which goes unnoticed by people unfamiliar with the communist period.It took me 10 years to find it, but it came from Siberia after frustrated after so many years I made an offer on ebay at international level(for a while it was as a VSH tape  on some east -german  web sites after the collapse of East  Germany which like the other members of Eastern Europe were exposed volens nolens to russian movies and culture.In terms of JV we  were lucky, very interesting and less known by JVR members in all the translations in the communist world  all the religious parts were erased, The Mysterious Island made no exception ).If  you want it just contact me.Emil. Winchester Mass.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Marie-Helene Huet (mhhuet~at~Princeton.EDU)"
Sent: Aug 30, 2011 8:51 AM
To: Jules Verne Forum
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@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@shaw.ca>
> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf@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
>
> 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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