Python (Monty) Pictures ended at the end of 1980 (a unique arrangement at the time). As revealed in "The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen" (included on the bonus DVD of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Python member Terry Gilliam's 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"), Python Pictures was to originally bring in part of the funding for "Munchausen" but eventually the deal didn't come to fruition. Python (Monty) Pictures Python (Monty) Pictures Limited is composed of the five surviving members of the main Monty Python team, who now serve as the directors. Python (Monty) Pictures which was incorporated in 1973 and now
Baron Munchausen Reading Teacher" noted that Ustinov's portrayal highlighted "the braggadocio personality of the Baron", with "self-adulation ... plainly discernible in the intonational innuendo". The early French filmmaker Georges Méliès, who greatly admired the Baron Munchausen stories, filmed "Baron Munchausen's Dream" in 1911. Méliès's short silent film, which has little in common with the Raspe text, follows a sleeping Baron through a surrealistic succession of intoxication-induced dreams. Méliès may also have used the Baron's journey to the moon as an inspiration for his well-known 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon". In the late 1930s, he planned to collaborate with the Dada