has taken the powers of science to its excessive extremes.
Popular as literary works, VerneΓÇÖs classics rapidly became film classics when his writings came out of copyright in the 1950ΓÇÖs. Between 1954 and 1962, 20,000 Leagues, Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Mysterious Island, Master of the World, and Five Weeks in a Balloon were each put on celluloid.
