Movie Director Richard Fleischer, in diving suit during filming of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”

These distinctive suits, as the original captions noted, were a technical problem because they “had to be invented to clothe the fabled Nautilus crew— Victorian-looking yet practical and self-contained… the way Jules Verne imagined it for his mythical hero, Captain Nemo.”

FL, US, February 1954, Peter Stackpole