{"id":833,"date":"2008-02-17T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T06:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2013-04-18T20:15:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T03:15:43","slug":"ray-harryhausen-live-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/ray-harryhausen-live-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Harryhausen Live Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The American Cinematheque had a screening of Ray Harryhausen’s The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Across the street Ray did a book signing of his book “The Art of…” It was nice to meet him and I picked up two books, one for me and one for Liza. He signed them both and I got a few photographs before heading across the street to get in line for the movie.<\/p>\n

As I was waiting in line I saw Ken Ralston<\/a> and said hello. He’s good friends with Ray and was there just to watch his favorite film. Or so he thought. I went in and found a seat and Ken walked up to the front and joined the rest of the group! Dennis Muren<\/a> had gotten sick so Ken stepped up and did some of the commentary.<\/p>\n

The live commentary was by Ray Harryhausen<\/a>, Ken Ralston<\/a>, Randy Cook<\/a> (3 times Oscar winner for visual effects, LORD OF THE RINGS), Phil Tippett<\/a> (Oscar winning effects designer, STAR WARS, STARSHIP TROOPERS, SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES), Steven C. Smith<\/a> (Bernard Herrmann biographer), Kathryn Crosby<\/a> (Actress in 7th Voyage), and moderator\/film historian Arnold Kunert during the screening. It was pretty fun as they turned down the sound a bit and just talked over the film as it played. If you had a question you just yelled it out. The audience had a lot of good questions except for one person who asked if they could turn the sound up on the film because she couldn’t hear it. Um, hello!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Cinematheque had a screening of Ray Harryhausen’s The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica. Across the street Ray did a book signing of his book “The Art of…” It was nice to meet him and I picked up two books, one for me and one for Liza. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t