The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello is a 2005 Academy Award-nominated animated short film. The first episode is labeled Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship.
The short films are set in a world styled after mid-Victorian England with Steampunk style, iron dirigibles and steam powered computers, where giant mechanical airships are the main mode of transport. The characters are animated in the style of Wayang (Indonesian shadow puppets) best described as silhouettes. The visual style of the characters is similar to that used by the 1926 film The Adventures of Prince Achmed (one of the oldest-surviving animated feature films)
The First Voyage - Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship
The film opens in the city of Gothia, a smoky industrial metropolis where steam-powered dirigibles are the primary mode of transportation, and where a terrible flesh-eating plague is decimating the population. The protagonist, royal navigator Jasper Morello, is deployed by the government at the outset to distribute mobile weather beacons along the route of his next voyage. He has difficulty concentrating on the task, however, as he is still stricken with guilt over the recent death of one of his crewmembers which was caused by a mistake in his calculations. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the leader of Jasper's newest expedition, Captain Griswald, still holds a grudge against Jasper for this error, and relations between the two of them are strained. Their dirigible, the Resolution, is crewed by Kemp, a technician; Kovacs, a linesman; and Emile LeBrun, the ship's cook. They are also joined by another passenger, the eccentric Dr. Belgon, a Royal Academy physician searching for a cure for the plague.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM
http://www.jaspermorello.com/gazette/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Geographic_Explorations_of_Jasper_Morello
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