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It doesn't sound like Jim Danforth's voice to me.

I saw this sea monster puppet at Wah Changs house in 1970.

I assume the infrared was for some kind of travelling matte test but as far as I know the puppets were shot using miniature rear projection.

The only part of the Kong armature they use...

If only Harryhausen or Pete Peterson could have done this film.

Even so I like it better than any of the CGI I have seen. CGI is so lifeless

and same-looking all the time. Thousands of people have done CGI effects but only a handful of artists have ever even attempted stop-motion for feature fil...

The armature I saw in 1971 unquestionably had the typical universal friction joints used in the King Kong armatures. I was told it was the Beast of Hollow Mountain armature but it might have been the War Eagles Tyrannosaurus or even the Kong Tyrannosaurus because of it's size. If it was used in...

In 1968 most movie fans were not familiar with Thus Spake Zarathustra and it sounded like it had been written for the film. When I saw the film in Cinerama

it sure impressed the hell out of me and I did not know it was a hundred plus year old work. It became the world wide theme music for out...

I have a letter from George Pal turning down my offer to buy both the Time Machine

and the Atlantis submarine in 1961. Exactly 10 years later

I bid on the Time Machine the Atlantis submarine model and the C-57-D saucer from Forbidden planet at the MGM auction in 1971. I lost of course but it wa...