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Re: Russian Mysterious Island Movie

From: Dennis Kytasaari <djk~at~epguides.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:27:22 -0500
To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

I see when doing that search and then flipping over to images, I found the film is available for purchase on RussianDVD.com. It is a region 2 disc and it does not contain subtitles of any kind, so unless you have some command of that language, all you can really do it watch the images and if you know the story (as most of us here do) you can follow along.

Dennis


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On Behalf Of Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:00 AM
To: Jules Verne Forum
Subject: Re: Russian Mysterious Island Movie

Do a search for "таинственный остров 1941", which yields a bunch of
results, including online versions of the film:

http://io.ua/ve8440b880a972a18e218b4cfef18fc4c
http://teramult.org.ua/mult/1941_su_film_tainstvennyj.ostrov

and a torrent for a DVD rip:
http://nnm-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=320969

It's amazing how faithful and watchable some of these really old films
are. The 1936 Deti kapitana Granta is another great example. It's a
shame that these are so difficult to get hold of over here in Western
Europe. I had some success browsing posylka.de in the past, but when I
revisited that site just now, I didn't see any Verne films.

Cheers,
Garmt.

On 30 August 2011 14:51, Marie-Helene Huet (mhhuet~at~Princeton.EDU)
<mhhuet~at~princeton.edu> wrote:
> 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!
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> Drake - have you seen the Russian version of " The Mysterious
>> Island " ? It seems to be by far the most faithful to the book
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Drake Lolley
>> To: Jules Verne Forum
>> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 1:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: Jules Verne Radio Shows
>>
>>
>> Alex,
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Drake
>>
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>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:47 -0700 (PDT), Alex Kirstukas wrote:
>>
>> Hi Drake,
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> Mr. Keeline,
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:26:39 -0700 (PDT), James Keeline wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>> https://catalog.librivox.org/search.php?author=Jules+Verne
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%22Jules%20Verne%22%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio
>>
>>
>> At the very least you could fill up your iPod or other MP3 player
>> with these readings available in several languages.
>>
>>
>> James D. Keeline
>> _____
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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>> Brian
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