The Impossible Voyage
The Impossible Voyage French Voyage travers limpossible , advertised as an Invraisemblable quipe dun groupe de savants de la Socit de Gographie incohrente pice fantastique nouvelle entableaux, originally released in the US as An Impossible Voyage and in the UK as Whirling the Worlds, is a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Mlis. It was released by Mliss Star Film Company and is numbered 641659 in its catalogues, with an optional supplementary section numbered 660661. Based in part on Jules Vernes play Journey Through the Impossible and modeled in style and format on Mliss earlier, highly successful A Trip to the Moon, the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographers attempt a journey into the interior of the sun.
A geographic society, the Institute of Incoherent Geography, plans to make a world tour in such a way as to surpass in conception and invention all previous expeditions undertaken by the learned world. At a meeting headed by President Polehunter, assisted by Secretary Rattlebrain, by the Archivist Mole, by the Vicepresident Humbug, the members of the office, Easilyfooled, Daredevil, Schemer, etc., etc., the members listen to Professor Daredevils plan for the world tour, but reject it for being outofdate. The president then welcomes the eccentric engineer Crazyloff in French, Mabouloff maboul is French for crazy or crackpot, who explains his project for a new impossible voyage, using all the known means locomotionrailroads, automobiles, dirigible balloons, submarine boats The unusual plan is accepted enthusiastically, and preparations begin.When work is complete, the machines and travelers are loaded onto a train, and are sent to the Swiss Alps, where the travelers will begin their journey. They first board an automobile, the AutoCrazyloff, and journey through the mountains. In an attempt to run over the summit of the Rigi, the travelers crash at the bottom of a precipice. They are saved by mountaineers and rushed to a Swiss hospital. ........
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