Landscape with the Fall of Icarus using feathers secured with bees wax. Ignoring his father's warnings, Icarus chose to fly too close to the sun, melting the wax, and fell into the sea and drowned. His legs can be seen in the water just below the ship. The sun, already half-set on the horizon, is a long way away; the flight did not reach anywhere near it. Daedalus does not appear in this version of the painting, though he does, still flying, in the van Buuren one (see below). The ploughman, shepherd and angler are mentioned in Ovid's account of the legend; they are: "astonished and
Mystery of the Wax Museum se, the Technicolor version of the film is available as an extra on the Warner Bros DVD and Blu-ray for "House of Wax". Even on the Blu-ray, the 1933 film remains in standard definition. The film was remade as "House of Wax" (1953), directed by Andre De Toth and starring Vincent Price. Whereas the original was more of a mystery film, the remake focused more on the horror elements. However, both films did have one unusual tendency in common: "Mystery" was filmed in the early two-color Technicolor process, and "House of Wax" showcased two other then-novel film technologies, 3-D and