20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage of realism. Eight submarines painted in grey took guests through the attraction, which took place in a lagoon visible from Tomorrowland and a large show building hidden behind two waterfalls. It became extremely popular with guests, and Walt Disney Imagineering consequently planned for more elaborate version for the forthcoming Florida Project concept, which would become Walt Disney World. One of the signature pieces of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was the fleet of passenger vehicles, adapted for theme park use from Harper Goff's Nautilus design for the 1954 Disney live-action version by Disney Imagineer George McGinnis. The basic hulls were
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne Diabolic Tenant" (1909). Zeman freely used details from Méliès's style as inspiration; for example, the piston-powered steam engine and submarine in "Vynález zkázy" are creatively adapted variants of those in "The Impossible Voyage". Other possible cinematic sources include Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis", Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film "Battleship Potemkin", and possibly even Stuart Paton's 1916 version of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". The film has long been noted for its unique visual style, which faithfully recreates that of the Victorian line engravings (by Édouard Riou, Léon Benett, and others) featured in the original editions of Verne's novels. According to Karel