That Harryhausen Poster At ILM Explained
I recently got a chance to get a tour of the ILM facility at the Presidio in San Francisco. The place is just dripping with VFX history. Sure you’ve got the obvious awesomeness like Han Solo in Carbonite but there are lots of hidden gems too like the original door to Kerner Optical and the Optical Printer used on the original Star Wars film. One thing that caught my eye was a poster from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad that was signed multiple times by Ray Harryhausen himself. I asked my tour guide what the deal was with the poster and he was clueless. It just so happens the San Francisco Chronicle did a little piece about the poster last week. Here’s a snippet
But there’s one piece of art on the wall that few in the building take for granted: A giant print of the Cyclops from “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad,” with a signature scrawled on it once for every visit by the monster’s creator. It was displayed prominently in the lobby of the old ILM offices in San Rafael, and now gets a place of honor near the cast photos from each of the company’s productions.
“Every time I walk by that and see those signatures, I think, ‘This has got to be the coolest place in the world,’ ” says Tim Harrington, an animator in his mid-30s who is working on the new Indiana Jones movie. “Ray Harryhausen has been here five times.”
LINK to the full story on SF Gate (via VFXblog)
March 12th, 2008 at 3:29 am
Every time he hears that there’s someone in the Presidio who doesn’t have a signed copy of his book, he has to come on back