Around the World in 80 Days

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A short time later, the misunderstanding is cleared up – the actual robber had been caught three days earlier in Edinburgh. The technological innovations of the 19th century had opened the possibility of rapid circumnavigation, and the prospect fascinated Verne and his readership. When he reads an article by Abigail Fix Fortescue about how a new railroad in India now allows the world to be traveled around in 80 days, he is reminded of a postcard he received only reading "coward". The periodical Le Tour du monde (3 October 1869) contained a short piece titled "Around the World in Eighty Days", which refers to 230 km (140 mi) of the railway not yet completed between Allahabad and Bombay, a central point in Verne's work. Today, Cunard's Queen Mary 2 ocean liner runs NYC– Southampton in seven days, with trains onward running twice-hourly to London.

That spectacular girder bridge with its turreted entrance, though, is hundreds of miles to the east. Phileas Fogg is a man of routine, spending his every day at the Reform Club reading his newspaper and eating the same meal. The square, with its photogenic wooden loggias, was dressed up for a fiesta and 6,500 locals were togged up in period gear. He wrote a book in 1699 that was translated into French: Voyage around the World or Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris).With a bit of ingenuity from the art department, the same boat reappears throughout the movie, as the SS Rangoon from 'Calcutta' to 'Hong Kong', the SS General Grant to 'San Francisco' and finally the ill-fated Henrietta from 'New York' to 'Liverpool'.

There are echoes of silent classic The General when Buster Keaton puts in an appearance as the (talking! Because the party had travelled eastward, their days were shortened by four minutes for every degree of longitude they crossed; thus, although they had experienced the same amount of time abroad as people had experienced in London, they had seen 80 sunrises and sunsets while London had seen only 79.He and Passepartout also rescue a young Parsi woman named Aouda from suttee (suicide on her husband's funeral pyre) and bring her along on their journey. At a time when round-the-world travel was becoming far more accessible due to commercial flights, it sparked massive interest in travel and tourism. His only hope of winning the bet is to report back to the Reform Club within 80 days of departure and, at this point, he no longer has any time to spare. White Cobra is back on the road this summer with this fast-paced family adaptation of Jules Verne's adventure.

In 1928, 15-year-old Danish Boy Scout Palle Huld travelled around the world by train and ship in the opposite direction to the one in the book.With the ICA positioned in central London and SLG situated in the south of the city, this exhibition examines how location can define and influence both artistic programming and its reception. The days of passports claiming "An Australian (or Canadian, or whichever realm) citizen is a British subject" and that claim being largely respected throughout a vast Britannic Empire are long gone; every country applies its own arbitrary restrictions to the global traveller. The exterior of the club seen in the film is that of the Institute of Directors Club, 116 Pall Mall. When dashing entrepreneur Phileas Fogg is challenged to a high-stakes bet by members of his Victorian gentleman's club, he must rise to the challenge; he must circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less on a 20,000 bet(roughly 1. Initially happy to be back home in London, the team is almost immediately inspired to set out on another adventure, and set out to investigate a newspaper's story about a mysterious sea monster attacking ships at sea, a possible allusion to events depicted in Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.