#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 12: An only child (no, make that two!) on #NationalOnlyChildDay

An amazing adventure in the unusual!

Young Jill – played by the tragically doomed Lora Lee Michel – grows up on a ranch in an undisclosed African country (aka “Africa”) with her father. One day, two porters pass her house carrying an orphaned baby #gorilla. Smitten, she wants and gets the ape, names it Joe, and raises it until the simian reaches exceptional size. That's when a couple of showman collecting exotic menagerie for a Hollywood nightclub come across the odd couple. After long consideration and desperate for money, Jill decides to take Joe to the States where the two become an overnight cabaret sensation. But like Kong before him, Joe is not made for the concrete jungle.

One decade and a Hays Code later, the people who brought the world King Kong (1933) present Mighty Joe Young (1949): more drama, more spectacle, and superior special effects by Marcel Delgado, Ray #Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien et al. A box-office dud ánd Academy Award for Special Effects winner, Mighty Joe Young is now recognised as an #animation classic. In particular the nightclub scenes (keep your eyes peeled for Phil “The Swedish Angel” Olafsson!) are a wonderful display of the magic of #StopMotion.

#film #cinema #MightyJoeYoung #ErnestBSchoedsack #RuthRose #MerianCCooper #JohnFord #MarcelDelgado #RayHarryhausen #WillisHOBrien #WillisOBrien #TerryMoore #LoraLeeMichel #PhilOlafsson #animation #StopMotionAnimation#FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

I've seen Clash of the Titans a billion times, and never noticed that when Perseus emerges from Medusa's lair and holds her head aloft, it opens its eyes. Fast forward to 12:00 and behold:
#greekmythology #fantasy #harryhausen #medusa #releasethekraken
https://youtu.be/WiRHAmTSPqQ

Marine iguanas look like something from a Ray Harryhausen film https://allthatsinteresting.com/marine-iguana #nature #wildlife #harryhausen

🦖NEUE FOLGE❄
Wir starten 2023 mit dem #ICECUBEMONTH und besprechen als erstes die filmische Kerninspiration für Godzilla: "THE BEAST FROM 20.000 FATHOMS" aka "Dinosaurier in New York". Ein Monsterfilmklassiker von 1953 mit Stop-Motion Effekten von Ray Harryhausen.

#Harryhausen #Stopmotion #Rhedosaurus #Podcast #Monsterfilm @kaijutoku

https://anchor.fm/dinosdaemonendoktoren/episodes/DDD073---The-Beast-from-20-000-Fathoms-Dinosaurier-in-New-York-1953-e1sc5fe

Another Ray Harryhausen adventure on tap. Will I understand it if I haven't seen 1 through 6?

#7thVoyageOfSinbad

#NowPlaying
#Harryhausen
#ClassicMovies

Time for some Ray #Harryhausen magic: Jason And The Argonauts

#NowPlaying

#Dragons represent greed.
🐉 typically guards heaps of gold
& virgins hidden in caves.
Can’t make use of either of them.
It just guards.
There’s no vitality of experience,
either of the value of the gold
or of the girl he’s guarding there.
#josephcampbell
7th Voyage of #Sinbad👳🏾⛵️
23 Dec 1958📽
#Harryhausen #fantasy #movies

#Dragons represent greed.
🐉 typically guards heaps of gold
& virgins hidden in caves.
Can’t make use of either of them.
It just guards.
There’s no vitality of experience,
either of the value of the gold
or of the girl he’s guarding there.
#josephcampbell
7th Voyage of #Sinbad👳🏾⛵️
23 Dec 1958📽
#Harryhausen #fantasy #movies

#ChristmasMovie
#ClashOfTheTitans
#Harryhausen
#SundayOff

Clash of the Titans BBC2 right now

#Harryhausen

Clash of the Titans BBC2 right now

#Harryhausen

Watching #JasonAndTheArgonauts for the n'ty n'th time. Ray #Harryhausen is one of my all time heroes.

You see, when I watch those Ray #Harryhausen movies I often wonder how those two- three-headed creatures get along.

I mean is one head the dominant head while the other is just for snapping at potential lunch? How does it decide which direction it wants to go? If it wants to go in two different directions does its body split the difference and take a middle route?

Maybe that's why those creatures are only found in far off lands in the middle of ruins. They can't move very far.

#mythology