The Impossible Voyage (1904) on Netflix
The Institute of Incoherent Geography rejects Professor Daredevil's tour as out of date. Engineer Mabouloff proposes a voyage using every means of locomotion. The travelers head for the Alps.
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Plot summary
A society of geography enthusiasts, the Institute of Incoherent Geography, resolves to attempt a journey that will surpass every earlier expedition of the learned world. At a meeting led by President Polehunter, with Secretary Rattlebrain, the Archivist Mole and Vice-president Humbug in attendance, Professor Daredevil presents a world tour, and the members reject it as out of date. The engineer Mabouloff then unveils a scheme of his own: an impossible voyage that would use every known means of locomotion, among them railroads, automobiles, dirigible balloons and submarine boats. The members welcome the plan, and once the vehicles are ready, the travelers take a train to the Alps, where the journey is to begin, and there they board the touring automobile Auto-Crazyloff and set off through the mountains.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Impossible Voyage (1904)
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- The Swiss Alps scenes were not filmed in Switzerland: while most of The Impossible Voyage was shot inside Georges Méliès's glass studio, the scene at the foot of the Jungfrau was filmed outdoors, in the garden of his property in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis.
- Georges Méliès's special effects for the film used stage machinery with scenery that rolled both horizontally and vertically, along with pyrotechnics, miniature effects, substitution splices and dissolves.
- At 374 meters, roughly 20 minutes at silent-film projection speeds, it was Georges Méliès's longest film to date, and it cost about 37,500 (7,500) to make.
