BigList
Login / Sign up
The Stolen Airship (1967)

The Stolen Airship (1967)

Science Fiction Adventure Animation
Release Date: 1967, April 28
Directors: Karel Zeman
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Filmové studio Barrandov, Filmové studio Gottwaldov
Cast: Karel Effa, Jan Tříska, Hanuš Bor, František Hanus, Jan Teplý, Čestmír Řanda, Václav Babka, Jaroslav Moučka, Josef Větrovec, Michal Pospíšil, Miroslav Homola, Jitka Zelenohorská

Overview:

Five young people take off in a lighter-than-air machine at the Prague Centennial Exhibition. A live-action/animated film based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau style consists of live-action scenes, generally shot in black and white, as well as hand-drawn, stop-motion, and cutout animation. Various live-action and animated elements are often composited into the same scene.