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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Directed by Stuart Paton
Starring Allen Holubar, Jane Gail, Howard Crampton
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was not known in the silent era as premier producer of motion pictures. Yet, in 1916 they produced a film that could not be made effectively without expensive special effects and special photography. The novel had previously been made as short films in 1907 by Georges Méliès and in 1913 by French company ÃÂclair.) Marshalling the expertise underwater ex
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