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Invention for Destruction
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Czech
- Subjects (All):
- Action and adventure films.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1958
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- This eye-popping escapade revolves around a scientist and his doomsday machine-and the pirates who will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. Freely adapting the fiction of Jules Verne, and inspired by Victorian line engravings, Karel Zeman surrounds his actors with animated scenery of breathtaking intricacy and complexity, constructing an impossibly vivid proto-steampunk world. Released abroad at the turn of the 1960s, INVENTION FOR DESTRUCTION went on to become one of the most internationally successful Czechoslovak films of all time
- Participant:
- Arnošt Navrátil, František Šlégr, Lubor Tokoš, Miloslav Holub
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1958
- OCLC:
- 1303728985
- Publisher Number:
- 12814075 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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