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David Austin-grey ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ at The Yard

Courtesy of Joshua French | Posted on March 26, 2021

Where

The Yard
11 Bent Street
Manchester
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David Austin-grey ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ at The Yard

When

Sun, August 15, 2021
18:30

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UK-based pianist and composer David Austin-Grey continues NQ Jazz’s series of ‘seminal sci-fi’ film nights at The Yard with an improvised score to the 1916 American silent film, ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’.

The film is based upon Jules Verne’s 1870 novel of the same name, also incorporating elements of his 1875 novel, ‘The Mysterious Island’. Described as being the ‘first motion picture filmed underwater’, it follows a US naval ship sent to investigate a ‘sea monster’, and the fate of its crew after the vessel is damaged by the monster. The film has been archived by the United States Library of Congress, who deem it to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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