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Double Feature: The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)/The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Cowboys vs. dinosaurs! The idea was kicking around in stop-motion animator Willis O’Brien’s head for a while in the years following his seminal work on The Lost World (1925) and King Kong (1933). It was an appealing and original notion to … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Fantastique, Theater Leone
Tagged cowboys, dinosaurs, Fantasy, Guy Madison, James Franciscus, prehistoric, Ray Harryhausen, Stop Motion, Western, Willis O'Brien
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Fantasia (1940)
Fantasia (1940) is not an animated film, not by its own description. The film’s narrator, Deems Taylor – an announcer for broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera – describes what you are about to experience as “a new form of entertainment.” … Continue reading
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Tagged 40's, Animation, ballet, classical music, dinosaurs, fairies, Fantasy, Greek Mythology, lovable animals, Magician, Mickey Mouse, Pegasus, prehistoric, Walt Disney
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The Lost World (1925)
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The Lost World in Strand Magazine in 1912, he was allowing his name to be associated not just with his creation Sherlock Holmes, but with the likes of speculative fiction authors H. Rider Haggard … Continue reading
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Tagged 20's, Action, dinosaurs, lovable animals, prehistoric, Silent, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stop Motion, Wallace Beery, Willis O'Brien
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