20000 Leagues Under the Sea

The film a parody of the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne follows a fisherman Yves who dreams of traveling by submarine to the bottom of the ocean where he encounters both realistic and fanciful sea creatures including a chorus of naiads played by dancers from the Théâtre du Châtelet Mélièss design for the film includes cutout sea animals patterned after Alphonse de Neuvilles illustrations for Vernes novel