4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 784

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #784 Universal
Grade: 9.2
Page Quality: CREAM TO OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0080030010
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 4/23/2012
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Around the World in 80 Days. 2/57 David Niven photo Cover. Story back.

This copy is tied with one other as third best in the database to date. A single 9.4 yops the chart. (4/12)

Interesting background:

Filming took place in late 1955, from August 9 to December 20.[citation needed] The crew worked fast (75 actual days of filming), producing 680,000 feet (210,000 m) of film, which was edited down to 25,734 feet (7,844 m) of finished film. The picture cost just under $6 million to make,[citation needed] employing 112 locations in 13 countries and 140 sets.[1] Todd said he and the crew visited every country portrayed in the picture, including England, France, India, Spain, Thailand and Japan.[citation needed] According to the Time magazine review of the film,[1] the cast including extras totaled 68,894 people; it also featured 7,959 animals, "including four ostriches, six skunks, 15 elephants, 17 fighting bulls, 512 rhesus monkeys, 800 horses, 950 burros, 2,448 American buffalo, 3,800 Rocky Mountain sheep and a sacred cow that eats flowers on cue." There is also a cat, at the Reform Club. The wardrobe department spent $410,000 to provide 74,685 costumes and 36,092 trinkets.

One of the most famous sequences in the film, the flight by hot air balloon, is not in the original Jules Verne novel. Because the film was made in Todd AO, the sequence was expressly created to show off the locations seen on the flight, as projected on the giant curved screen used for the process. A similar balloon flight can be found in an earlier Jules Verne novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, in which the protagonists explore Africa from a hot air balloon. [6]

In his memoirs, Niven related that Todd completed filming whilst in considerable debt. The post-production work on the film was an exercise in holding off Todd's creditors long enough to produce a saleable movie, and the footage was worked upon under the supervision of Todd's creditors and returned to a secure vault each night, to be held, as it were in escrow.

The film's release and subsequent success vindicated Todd's considerable abilities.

Academy Awards

The movie was nominated for eight Oscars,[8] of which it was awarded five, beating out critically and publicly praised films Friendly Persuasion, The Ten Commandments, Giant, and The King and I:
Won: Best Picture - Michael Todd, producer
Won: Best Cinematography, Color - Lionel Lindon
Won: Best Film Editing - Gene Ruggiero and Paul Weatherwax
Won: Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Victor Young
Won: Best Writing, Best Screenplay, Adapted - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, and James Poe
Nominee: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - Ken Adam, Ross Dowd, and James W. Sullivan
Nominee: Best Costume Design, Color - Miles White
Nominee: Best Director - Michael Anderson

Although not nominated for best original song, the film's theme song "Around the World" (music by Victor Young, words by Harold Adamson), became very popular. It was a hit for Bing Crosby in 1957, and was a staple of the easy-listening genre for many years: "Around the world I searched for you / I traveled on when hope was gone to keep a rendezvous ... No more will I go all around the world / For I have found my world in you."
  
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