| PRE-HISTORIC CLASSICS |
| WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11th - 7:30pm |
| Tickets: $10 general / $9 students or seniors |
Summon back to the age of the dinosaur with One Million Years B.C. (1966), Don Chaffey's primal creation featuring Ray Harryhausen's motion stop animation, starring Rachel Welch in her iconic role as Loana and John Richardson as Tumak, followed by its precceding film version, One Million B.C. (1940), a production of the father and son team, Hal Roach and Hal Roach Jr, with vehicle roles for Victor Mature and Carole Landis, and a supporting one for Lon Chaney Jr. as Akhoba. Did we mention the breathtaking special effects...?
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| One Million BC (1940) |
| Directed by Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach |
| Film Excerpt |
Popular Mechanics (1940)
When Hal Roach studios decided to film "One million B.C." the associate director Hal Roach Jr., was told: "We want some woolly mammoths, a musk ox, a couple of dinosaurs, and any other pre-historic animals you can get." It's impossible to round up a group of pre-historic beats, so Roach's job was to supply substitutes. The musk ox and woolly mammoths were comparatively easy. For the mammoths he rented two elephants. Black goat hair by the square yard was glued to their hides, long strands of hair were draped from their ears and trunks, and long curving metal tusks were fitted over their short ones. The musk ox was created by attaching a shaggy overcoat to a Brahma steer an providing it with a pair of metal horns. Read full article here or click image below:
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