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Thirty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Also released as Thirty Leagues Under the Sea

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Cast and crew

Director
Carl Louis Gregory
Cast
George M. Williamson
Writer
Carl Louis Gregory
Photographed by
Carl Louis Gregory

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More about this film

Filmed in
Nassau Harbor, Nassau, Bahama Islands
Bowers’ notes
  1. As was the case with Terrors of the Deep, this feature was made from footage cut from the 20,000 feet of film taken by Carl Louis Gregory in the Bahamas in a two-month period ending June 10, 1914. 2. The initial showing of this film was at the public opening of The Broadway Rose Gardens, New York City, on September 14, 1914. See Terrors of the Deep, listed in the present filmography under August 7, 1914, for further information. The feature continued to be shown through October 1914. 3. The film was designated as Thirty Leagues Under the Sea in early publicity. The title finally used was inspired by Jules Verne’s 19th century tale of Captain Nemo and his submarine, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 4. In January 1915, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company made an arrangement to take control of the Williamson Submarine Motion Pictures Co., owned by the Williamson brothers. A related film, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, made with the Williamson apparatus, was released by Universal in September 1916.
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From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1914 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Thirty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”. thanhouser.org/films/thirty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea/

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