Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from ''A Trip to the Moon'' (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book ''From the Earth to the Moon'' by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.
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Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
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