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Atlantis, the Lost Continent is a 1961 American science fiction film in Metrocolor produced and directed by George Pal and starring Sal Ponti (under the screen name of Anthony Hall), Joyce Taylor, and John Dall. The film was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Atlantis: The Lost Continent: Directed by George Pal. With Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, John Dall, William Smith. Welcome to Atlantis, where royal guardsmen wear uniforms that could easily be from the wardrobe of Ming the Merciless and some unfortunate slaves are turned into bovine-headed beasts.
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- Adventure, Sci-Fi
- George Pal
- 1961-05-03
As continental drift became widely accepted during the 1960s, and the increased understanding of plate tectonics demonstrated the impossibility of a lost continent in the geologically recent past, most "Lost Continent" theories of Atlantis began to wane in popularity.
- Sarah Pruitt
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- Atlantis was a mid-Atlantic continent that suddenly sunk into the ocean. The idea that Atlantis was an actual historical place, and not just a legend invented by Plato, didn’t surface until the late 19th century.
- Atlantis was swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle. Inspired by Donnelly, many later writers expanded on his theories and added their own speculations as to where Atlantis may have been.
- Atlantis was Antarctica. Another theory—that Atlantis was actually a much more temperate version of what is now Antarctica—is based on the work of Charles Hapgood, whose 1958 book Earth’s Shifting Crust featured a foreword by Albert Einstein.
- The story of Atlantis was a mythical retelling of the Black Sea Flood. This theory presumes Atlantis itself was fictional, but the story of its demise was inspired by an actual historical event: the breaching of the Bosporus by the Mediterranean Sea and subsequent flooding of the Black Sea, around 5600 B.C.
Apr 30, 2024 · First described by Plato in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias in 360 B.C.E., the Lost City of Atlantis was a purported civilization near the Strait of Gibraltar that sank into the Atlantic.
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Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961) -- (Movie Clip) A Series Of Mysteries The ubiquitous Paul Frees narrates, producer-director George Pal with a characteristic history-bending opening, from the 1961 MGM fantasy Atlantis, The Lost Continent, starring Anthony Hall, Joyce Taylor and John Dall.
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