Facing the Flag  ( Face au drapeau ) is one of Jules Verne's lesser known works yet one of those in the late stages of his career that ...

If anyone can truly be said to have captured the spirit of Georges Méliès, it is Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. It is one thing to use the me...

Few Disney live-action films have enjoyed the enduring legacy of  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . Just as Jules Verne's works entered th...

Of the photography studios of Paris during   La Belle Époque , perhaps none were more famous than Reutlinger. Started in 1850 by Charles Re...

Since it was written in 1837, Hans Christian Andersen's  The Little Mermaid  has baffled and frustrated analysts. On first glance, it s...

Beginning with an innovative Sega Saturn video game in 1996, the Sakura Taisen  franchise grew rapidly to become a Japanese mega-hit ...

A lone worker at the top of the Eiffel Tower awakens one morning to find that everyone else has not. By some strange machination, the world...

In the decades prior to the creation of film, the unveiling of large-scale paintings took the place of mass entertainment media events. Lan...

Today's special post appears as part of the Outer Space On Film Blogathon  hosted by Moon in Gemini. Click on the banner above to se...

The romance of the Gay Nineties has its automatic signifiers. Ladies with bustles and feathered hats, men in dapper suits and handlebar mou...

Much like Georges Méliès, the conjurer-turned-filmmaker from across the Chanel, Walter R. Booth began his cinema career on the theatrical s...

Today's special post is part of the Time Travel Blogathon  hosted by Wide Screen World and Silver Screenings. Click on the banner ...

Paul Grimault's Le Roi et l'Oiseau took nearly 30 years to complete, a labour of love and story of artistic passion that typifie...

It was the last of its kind, the last of the true "universal" expositions and the final in string of international expositions he...

It's that time of year, eh? Today's special feature is part of the  O Canada! Blogathon  hosted by Speakeasy and Silver Screen...

A group of explorers - all men - venture into the trackless expanse of jungle in search of a hidden mystery. Testing brawn and brain, they ...

Tiki culture - the fantasy world of thatch-roofed bars, Hawaiian shirts, and whimsical ceramic mugs - was largely a product of post-World...

A film as important as Disney's  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea  meant that it has always had a presence at Disney's theme parks, in...

Over a century of film adaptations and countless parodies, including no less than The Simpsons , have inured many to the truly chilling eff...

The following illustration by E.B. Bird comes from an issue of St. Nicholas Magazine published in 1907 and is entitled Santa in 2007 . So ...