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Item Description
This is for Star Classics VHS release of the 1970
film, On the Comet. The VHS was originally released in 1987 and is long
out of print and not available on DVD! This Czechoslovakian film was a
mix of live action and animation, adapting Jules Verne's original
story. Packaged in the original box - back of box has some wrinkles to
it and there is some relatively minor edgewear. I did play some of
this in our VCR - it initially displayed some bending along the very top
edge for a few minutes, along with a few roll lines, then seemed to
clear up. Pictures are of actual item (not stock photos). Ships boxed
(not in an envelope). Any questions, feel free to ask!
Synopsis:
Master of his own ingenious and extravagant brand of fantastical
animated filmmaking, Czechoslovakian Karel Zeman culminates all of his
past films and inspirations in presenting the absurd and compelling ON
THE COMET. Based on the story "Hector Servadec" by Jules Verne, the film
follows the misadventures of a group of 19th century warring parties (a
colonial army stationed in Africa battling the native forces) whose
ridiculous and never ending strategizing and petty battles are
interrupted by the arrival of a planet-sized comet on the horizon. As
the comet flies past the earth in a storm of color flashes and
lightening, it rips the small chunk of Africa away from the earth and
carries it off into space. Faced with seemingly perpetual separation
from the earth and all of its divisions and strife, the Africans and the
Imperialists make peace and attempt to forge a utopian community.
Mixing the look of antique photographic postcards with Victorian
etchings, Zeman's inimitable style creates a fluid and whimsical mixture
of live action and animation as well as comedy and drama, rendering the
philosophical questions in Verne's text simultaneously striking and
fabulously entertaining.
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