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 sacred Author of all things! ... Nothing more is now wanting to our island". His emblem, as given in a description of the flag he raised when claiming Antarctica, is a large golden N on a black field. The motto of the "Nautilus" was "Mobilis in mobili", which may be roughly translated from Latin as, "moving amidst mobility", "moving within the moving element", or "changing in the changes". In the initial draft of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Nemo was a Polish noble, a member of the szlachta, resenting the murder of his family during the Russian repression of