Tune in TOMORROW NIGHT (May 28, 2024) when Yours Truly will return to host the #TCMParty for the first time in almost FIVE YEARS!! We’ll be watching, & posting about, JASON & THE ARGONAUTS (1963) – the classic stop motion film from the skilled hands & mind of the immortal…
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Happy Anniversary to THE LOST WORLD (1925)
Today is a very special anniversary in the world of Imagi-Movies. It can be said that it was the day the Monster Movie was born. Not ‘Horror Movie’, as that was (technically) created by none other than Thomas Edison with his production of J. Searle Dawley’s FRANKENSTEIN (1910), and refined…
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Sirki’s Summons – November 10: Father of Kong, Farewell*
Forty-nine years ago, Prince Sirki called to the man who made King Kong move into movie history – Willis O’Brien. O’Brien was a master of stop-motion animation, who was the first to bring dinosaurs and other large creatures to ‘life’ on-screen. O’Brien first came to prominence with the silent film…
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Prince Sirki Summons the Master of Stop-Motion
Greetings my friends. It is with a very heavy heart that I write today’s column. No doubt, many of you have heard by now of the passing of the wizard of stop-motion – or as he dubbed it, DYNAMATION – Ray Harryhausen. I had the privilege of briefly making his…
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Happy Birthday, KONG!
This is the anniversary of a very special film. It was 79 years ago today, that the world of cinema was forever changed with the release of a film that would influence many generations of film makers to come – KING KONG (1933). The tale of Merian C. Cooper’s giant…