20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film) Francisco International Film Festival. In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for its National Film Registry. A strange giant "sea creature" has been rampaging the seas. The American naval ship "Abraham Lincoln" is sent to investigate, but is rammed by "the creature" which turns out to be "The Nautilus", the fantastic submarine of the enigmatic Captain Nemo, and "Rudderless, the 'Abraham Lincoln' drifts on". Then, in "A strange rescue" he guides the sub to surface under those pitched overboard and his crew take them, including Professor Aronnax,
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City of two of Jules Verne’s stories. Though that movie never passed the planning stage, MGM producer Steven Pallos managed to re-create the project having read a series of inspirational articles about Jacques Cousteau’s experiments with deep sea habitats, and the 'floating' was changed to 'underwater'. The film drew heavily on the supposed charm of the Victorian era, following agreement between director and scriptwriters to produce a popular escapist atmosphere, more the essence of Michael Todd’s "Around the World in Eighty Days" than of Disney‘s "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". Captain Nemo and the Underwater City Captain Nemo and the Underwater