20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 American silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. It also incorporates elements from Verne's 1875 novel The Mysterious Island.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Newspaper advertisement for the film.
Directed byStuart Paton
Screenplay byStuart Paton
Based onTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne
Produced byCarl Laemmle
Starring
CinematographyEugene Gaudio
Distributed byUniversal
Release date
  • December 24, 1916 (1916-12-24)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent film
English intertitles
Budget$500,000 (equivalent to $11,747,706 in 2019)
Box office$8 million

On May 4, 2010, a new print of the film was shown accompanied by a live performance of an original score by Stephin Merritt at the Castro Theatre, as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.

In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for its National Film Registry.

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