In 1872, an English gentleman Phileas Fogg claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.īroadcast journalist Edward R. The film's six-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, was created by award-winning designer Saul Bass.
The music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography (shot in Technicolor) was by Lionel Lindon. The screenplay, based on the classic 1873 novel of the same name by Jules Verne, was written by James Poe, John Farrow, and S.J. The picture was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd, with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure- comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.
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