Atlantis: The Lost Empire is the first science fiction film in Disney's animated features canon and the 41st overall. Set in 1914, the film tells the story of a young man who gains possession of a sacred book, which he believes will guide him and a crew of adventurers to the lost city of Atlantis. Linguist Marc Okrand created an Atlantean language for the film (letter "A" pictured). Atlantis made greater use of computer- generated imagery than any of Disney's previous animated features; it remains one of the few to have been shot in anamorphic format. Atlantis, which adopted the distinctive visual style of comic book creator Mike Mignola, is one of the few Disney animated features not to have songs. The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, on June 3, 2001, and went into general release on June 15. Due to the film's poorer-than-expected box-office performance, Disney quietly canceled both a spin-off television series and an underwater attraction at its Disneyland theme park. Some critics praised it as a unique departure from typical Disney animated features, while others disliked it due to the unclear target audience and absence of songs.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1215:

King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

1878:

Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs (animation pictured); the study became the basis of motion pictures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop

1919:

After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight_of_Alcock_and_Brown

1978:

King Hussein of Jordan married American Lisa Halaby, who became known as Queen Noor of Jordan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Noor_of_Jordan

2001:

Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

encapsulate: 1. To cover something as if in a capsule. 2. To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encapsulate

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.   --Erik Erikson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Erikson