This is a big effect-- I'm sure it accounts for Master of the World, the 1962 Five Weeks in a Balloon with Barbara Eden and Fabian, and the 1967 Blast Off!/Rocket to the Moon with Burl Ives-- but not the only effect.

Nineteen of Verne's works were adapted for the screen before 1923. Clearly the guy was recognized as a major-league storyteller.