Post #196868 by King Kukulele on Mon, Nov 7, 2005 1:15 PM

For those of you The Los Angeles area, you might want to check out tonights Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences documentary film program. They do this every Monday night and its amazing. Tonight they are showing the documentary about the Kon Tiki voyage! Here's the Link:

http://www.oscars.org/events/oscars_docs/index.html

Here's the linup:
Benjy (1951) - 20 min. - Henry Fonda narrated this dramatization about a crippled boy, written by Stewart Stern and directed by Fred Zinnemann, which was made as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital.

Kon-Tiki (1951) - 75 min. - This feature covers the 4,000-mile sea voyage from Peru to Polynesia led by explorer/archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl in a home-made raft.

Neighbours (1952) - 7 min. - Groundbreaking filmmaker Norman McLaren used “pixilation” - animation using living people - to create this allegory about war.

The Sea around Us (1952) 61 min. - Blockbuster filmmaker Irwin Allen wrote, produced and directed this adaptation of famed environmentalist Rachel Carson's book about the world's oceans.

Where:
The Lynwood Dunn Theatre
1313 North Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028

When: Tonight, Nov. 7, at 7:30pm

Cost: $5

SEE YOU THERE!

KING KUKULELE

[ Edited by: KING KUKULELE 2005-11-07 13:16 ]

[ Edited by: KING KUKULELE 2005-11-07 13:17 ]