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Invention for Destruction ()

Vynález zkázy (original title)
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An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
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Simon Hart
Arnost Navrátil ...
Prof. Roch
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Artigas (as Miloslav Holub)
Frantisek Slégr ...
Kapitán pirátu
Václav Kyzlink ...
Ing. Serke
Jana Zatloukalová ...
Jana
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Self - Announcer (voice)
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Capt. Spade (uncredited)
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Muz ve vlaku (uncredited)
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Directed by

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Karel Zeman

Written by

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Frantisek Hrubín ... (scenario)
 
Jules Verne ... (novel "Face au Drapeau/A Deadly Invention")
 
Milan Vácha ... (dialogue)
 
Karel Zeman ... (freely adapted for the screen)
 
Karel Zeman ... (scenario)

Produced by

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Jeffrey C. Hogue ... producer
Zdenek Novák ... managing producer

Music by

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Zdenek Liska

Cinematography by

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Antonín Horák
Bohuslav Pikhart
Jirí Tarantík

Editing by

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Zdenek Stehlík

Editorial Department

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Diana Hönigová ... assistant editor
Olivier Veinat ... color timer

Production Design by

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Karel Zeman

Set Decoration by

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Zdenek Rozkopal

Costume Design by

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Karel Postrehovsky

Makeup Department

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Frantisek Havlicek ... makeup artist
Oldrich Mach ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Zdenek Novák ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Zdenek Rozkopal ... assistant director
Milan Vácha ... assistant director

Sound Department

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Benjamin McCulloch ... Audio Restoration
Hanus Silvera ... sound
Frantisek Strangmüller ... sound

Special Effects by

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Jan Cep ... special effects assistant
Zdenek Ostrcil ... special effects artist
Vlasta Slamenova ... special effects assistant
Josef Zeman ... special effects artist
Karel Zeman ... special effects

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Frantisek Krcmár ... special effects animator
Arnost Kupcik ... special effects animator
Jindrich Liska ... special effects animator

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Arne Parduba ... assistant camera
Frantisek Vlcek ... assistant camera

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Frantisek Belfín ... conductor
Filmový Symfonický Orchestr ... orchestra

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Joseph E. Levine ... presenter: US dubbed release
James T. Mockoski ... restoration supervisor: 2015

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Taglines Never before seen! Like nothing on this planet! Like no other screen adventure ever seen in America! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Vynález Zkázy (Czechoslovakia, Czech title)
  • Vynález Zkázy (Czechoslovakia, Slovak title)
  • The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (Canada, English title)
  • The Deadly Invention (Europe, English title)
  • Invention for Destruction (United States)
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  • 84 min
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Trivia The animation and production design are intended to evoke the woodcut illustrations of the original Jules Verne novels. See more »
Goofs There are a few single frames in the original release that have Karel Zeman posing his work. Several are during the small sub rescue in the underwater cave. The original American release still has these mistakes. The remastered versions have these taken out. These can still be seen in the bonus featurette that is included with the remastered Blu-ray Disc release. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Catalogue of Ships (2008). See more »
Crazy Credits "In the new motion picture technique Mysti-Mation" [US dubbed release] See more »
Quotes Himself - Announcer: [This first part is live and only in the original English release version that is sometimes cut out of television viewings] Hello! I'm Hugh Downs! This is a model of one of our newest submarines! A submarine similar to this recently sailed around the world without refueling and without once coming to the surface! Amazing isn't it! And this... a new jet passenger plane! Los Angeles to New York in less than five hours! Flies from New York to Paris in seven! It took Lindberg thirty-three hours to make that same trip! In the last hundred years the world has come astounding! The miracles of yesterday are now common everyday occurrences, and our frontiers, underwater, outer space are limitless! But of all the genius that walked this earth in the last hundred years, none is more remarkable then one man, with a magic pen! Of the many story tellers who have thrilled young and old a special ora will always surround the name Jules Verne! Verne's imagination has captured the minds and hearts of all of us! With him we have adventured to the center of the Earth! We have traveled twenty-thousand leagues under the sea! And we have soured in a balloon around the world in eighty days!
[from this point the following is Hugh Downs voice only, translating what was said in the original version]
Himself - Announcer: A hundred years ago in the confines of this small room, the unconfined imagination of Jules Verne created the fabulous shape of things to come! In these century old books lies the prophecy of our own era of atomic energy of the guided missile! The fantastic accuracy of Verne's predictions is demonstrated in the story you will now see on this screen! A story Verne wrote when the newest creations of science were the steamship and the primitive balloon! Our story is told in the words of his hero, Simon Hart! Just as Verne wrote it! Simon Hart was a man of the nineteen century! But these illustrations from the original book indicate that he saw the twentieth century sharp and clear! Now the droll delightful fabulous world of Jules Verne! Brought to life from these hundred year old illustrations by the miracle of "Misti-Mation"!
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