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 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 b...
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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 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...
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