20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 American  Technicolor  adventure film and the first  science fiction film shot in  CinemaScope. The film was personally produced by  Walt Disney through  Walt Disney Productions, directed by  Richard Fleischer, and stars  Kirk Douglas,  James Mason,  Paul Lukas and  Peter Lorre. [2]  It was also the first feature-length Disney film to be distributed by  Buena Vista Distribution. The film is adapted from  Jules Verne's 19th-century novel  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;">. It is considered an early precursor of the  steampunk<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"HelveticaNeue",Helvetica,"NimbusSansL",Arial,"LiberationSans",sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> genre.