Classic movie, animation and stop-motion fans in the San Francisco Bay Area note: Bay Area Film Events and Cinema SF present a three-night tribute to the one, the only Ray Harryhausen, starting Friday at the Balboa Theatre. This promises to be quite the weekend of big fun on the silver screen.
On the bill: 11 films featuring epic and still larger-than-life special effects by Ray Harryhausen. Inspired by the brilliant, trailblazing work of Willis "King Kong" O' Brien, Mr. Harryhausen would push the stop-motion envelope in four decades of feature films.
Along with Ladislaw Starewicz, Charley Bowers, George Pal and Joop Geesink, Ray Harryhausen tops the short list of stop-motion innovators.
On Friday, at 5:00 p.m. Meet and Greet benefiting the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation shall kick off a Dynamation-packed three days of great movies.
Guests of honor at the Dynamation Celebration will be Vanessa Harryhausen and Connor Heaney.
The many Ray Harryhausen action-adventure-science fiction-fantasy epics - all populated by his remarkably otherworldly creatures - spark that THIS IS SO COOL sense of wonder and astonishment, not just on the first viewing, but every time.
The Historic Balboa Theatre is in the San Francisco's outer Richmond District at 3630 Balboa Street, between 37th and 38th Avenues.
Here are the Balboa Theatre showtimes and the schedule.
For more info, the phone number of the Balboa Theatre is (415) 221-8184, and more details can be found on the Bay Area Film Events website.
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