Talk:20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:06, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I have found the cast listing for this film from www.imdb.com (i'm not sure how to male this into a link but the cast listing as has follows:

Lois Alexander	 ... Prince Daaker's daughter as a child Curtis Benton	 ... Ned Land Wallace Clarke	 ... Pencroft Howard Crampton	 ... Cyrus Harding Jane Gail	 ... A Child of Nature Joseph W. Girard	 ... Maj. Cameron Dan Hanlon	 ... Prof. Aronnax Allen Holubar	 ... Capt. Nemo Ole Jansen Noble Johnson Leviticus Jones	 ... Neb Matt Moore	 ... Lt. Bond Martin Murphy	 ... Herbert Brown Edna Pendleton	 ... Aronnax's daughter William Welsh	 ... Charles Denver (as William Welch)

I hope that this helps, please let me know if I done this correctly. Candice Perini —Preceding unsigned comment added by Candice M. Perini (talk • contribs) 05:00, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Underwater production technique
There's reference here to the use of mirrors in shooting the underwater scenes - "Actual underwater cameras were not used, but a system of watertight tubes and mirrors allowed the camera to shoot reflected images of underwater scenes staged in shallow sunlit waters." I've seen this stated elsewhere but suspect it's not true. The LOC reference cited actually contradicts this - saying "In search of authenticity, Williamson always took his camera to the ocean floor, never settling for the ease of shooting in a tank…" Another article, also from a pretty authoritative source, an American maritime museum, https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2019/12/a-portable-hole-in-the-sea/ describes an extensible tube with an iron bell at the bottom (the 'photosphere') in which the camera operator sat with camera. I haven't edited the entry since I'm not 100% sure I'm right about this but I think this is more likely to be true. bowbrick (talk) 14:12, 6 September 2023 (UTC)