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flames as they engulf trees and vegetation near Arroyo Seco river. Firefighters from
throughout the nation are fighting the 10-day-old blaze in Los Padres and Ventana
wilderness with thousands of acres consumed by the blaze. (AP)
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Ray Harryhausen: very special effects
By Dick Kleiner
HOLLYWOOD - (NEA) -
With “Star Wars" and “King
Kong” and the coming “Close
Encounters of the Third
Kind,” the American movie
going public is becoming more
aware of special effects than
ever before.
One of the best special
effects men around is an
American who moved to
England 20 years ago, and has
since become the star of
English fantasy film making.
His name is Ray Harryhausen
and he was inspired by the
first “King Kong."
“I was a kid in Los Angeles
when that came out,”
Harryhausen says, “and I was
very interested in both
science fiction and in sculp
ture. So 'King Kong’ really ex
cited me. I was still just a
teenager, but I began sculp
ting models of prehistoric
animals and making them
move and taking pictures of
them."
That's the technique Willis
O'Brien developed for the
first “King Kong." a techni
que known then and still
known as stop motion anima
tion. When Harryhausen had
shot some of his own film in
this backyard, he showed it to
O’Brien, who hired him. And
Harryhausen began working
on the "King Kong" sequel,
“Mighty Joe Young.”
Later, Harryhausen
married an English girl, and
THE MINATON, one of the awesome creatures en
countered in “Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger,” a Charles
H. Schneer Production.
New Books
The following new books have
been added to the collection of
the Flint River Regional
Library:
HEALTH: “You Can Fight
Cancer and Win” by Jane E.
Brody—An open and intelligent
approach to the subject of
cancer, showing that in many
cases cancer can be prevented
or cured and its effects
significantly modified; “Know
Your Genes” by Dr. Aubrey
Milunsky—Dr. Milunsky
provides important information
about the hereditary aspects of
common problems including
cancer, heart disease and
mental illness; “Hypnosis in the
Relief of Pain” by Ernest R.
Hilgard—A psychologist and a
psychatrist present a con
sidered assessment of the role
of hypnosis in relation to pain,
based on both experimental and
clinical studies.
BIOGRAPHY: “Vivian
Leigh” by Anne Edwards—The
extraordinary star of “Gone
With the Wind” is brought
vividly to life; “American
Hunger" by Richard Wright—A
continuation of “Black Boy,”
Wright’s acclaimed
autobiography, calls attention
went to England, and began
working there. His association
with producer Charles
Schneer began in 1952, and
Harryhausen has worked on
all Schneer's films since then
— from “It Came From
Beneath the Sea” to their
current release, “Sinbad and
the Eye of the Tiger.”
Harryhausen says the stop
motion animation technique
which Willis O’Brien
pioneered has changed little
over the years. When he builds
and animates and photographs
his creatures for the films he
does, he’s still doing it the
same basic way O’Brien did —
making a model, posing it,
photographing it, moving it a
fraction of an inch,
photographing it again.
“It's a slow, painstaking
process,” Harryhausen says.
“Our models are generally
about a foot or so long. They
must be moved by
millimeters for each shot.
There are 24 frames to a
second of projected movie
film. And, in some of our
films, especially those with
shots involving groups of
creatures, we can only do 13
frames a day — less than a se
cond of projected film."
And there may be complex
problems. The Schneer films
are generally fantasies — as
opposed to horror or science
fiction — and Harryhausen is
asked to design and animate
some strange creatures.
In "Jason and the
Argonauts," he had a seven
headed hydra to contend with.
He says the big problem with
that was to rememember
which of the seven heads was
moving at the time. He once
got called to the phone, came
back and forgot which head he
was supposed to move next.
In the current one. "Sinbad
and the Eye of the Tiger," the
Space telescope
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
space telescope, which can see
100 times better than those
presently in use and which may
be able to solve some of the
secrets of the universe, will be
placed into orbit in the early
1980 s, the National Geographic
Society reports.
The large telescope, placed
far above the earth’s hazy and
turbulent atmosphere with ma
chinery to beam its images to
earth, may be the instrument
which shows conclusively
whether life exists outside
earth, some scientists think.
Dr. Harland J. Smith, an as
tronomer at the University of
Texas, calls it the prince of in
struments. “Very roughly, it
will let us see a hundred times
as much information in each
element of sky as we can see
now,” he said.
to his first years in the North,
his struggle to become a writer,
and his brief association with
the Communist Party.
FICTION: “Orchids for
Mother” by Aaron Latham—
When Ernest O’Hara, chief of
covert operations, is chosen by
President Nixon as CIA
director, O’Hara chief rival,
Xavier Kimball, code named
Mother, is forced to resign and
plots to bring down both O’Hara
and Henry Kissinger; “Sarton
Kell” by Kate Mallory—Young
bride Olivia Sarton is awed and
frightened by the splendid
estate to which she is brought,
and finds that she must uncover
a secret that threatens her life
and that of her unborn child;
“White Poppy” by Helena
Osborne—Seeking to save her
traveling companion from a
drug-possession charge,
freelance photographer Sara
Norton agrees to help Iranian
authorities crack an in
ternational opium-smuggling
operation; “330 Park” by
Stanley Cohen—Gun waving
maniacs take 500 workers
hostage inside an office building
and policeman Harry Ziller
leads the force to liberate them.
star, Patrick Wayne, has a
scene where he fences with
three ghouls. Not only did
Harryhausen have to design
and build three ghouls — and
there aren’t pictures of ghouls
in the encyclopedia to copy —
but he had to bring them to
life.
Harryhausen says "Star
Wars” had some fantastic
effects — “but, after all, they
had a 70-man special effects
crew." He works with only a
few men, and it took them 14
months to do the stop motion
animation for “Sinbad."
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MOSCOW — Child specialist Dr. Benjamin Spock waves as he takes turn at the oars in
Keylatsky, USSR, where the 1980 Olympics will be held. Dr. Spock stopped over at
Krylatsky on his return trip from the International Children’s Festival at Artek, The
Crimea. Dr. Spock was Olympic champion in rowing in 1924. (AP)
ABC-Ettes
have picnic
ABC-Ettes and their family
members enjoyed a picnic
lunch at the paviUion in Patrick
Park during their August
meeting.
Bingo games were conducted
by Mrs. Robert Weeks. Mrs.
Abner Caldwell, hostess
chairman, was in charge of
arrangements for the meeting.
Tractor production
BUENOS AIRES (AP) -
Tractor production in this coun
try reached an all-time high in
1976 of 23,923 units, according
to the Association of Argentine
Tractor Manufacturers.
Some 88 per cent of these
tractors were sold domes
tically, 7.4 percent were export
ed, and the remainder were in
corporated into stock.
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