Cornelius And Zira: November 2018

Saturday, 24 November 2018

CORNELIUS AND ZIRA Part 3

Once inside the cave, Milo proceeds to show Cornelius one of his precious artifacts - the bones of a hitherto undiscovered animal species. Meanwhile, Zira is doing some excavating of her own - and stumbles across a fossil so unusual and significant it could shake the foundations of Ape society's whole belief system...

The skull of a human - wearing spectacles! This proves that humans, presently mute, imbecile beasts, once possessed a technology far in advance of that of the apes.

"Come on, Zira. We'll go and pick up my dating equipment,

then we'll be able to find out how old that skull is."

Saturday, 17 November 2018

CORNELIUS AND ZIRA Part 2

Milo greets his friends, then stables his horse and leads them into the forest to the site of his most recent discoveries, a secluded cave in the forest.

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THE SIXTH OF THE "APES" FILMS - AND THE BEST! In 1977, a group of teenage friends from North London recreated the world of the Planet Of The Apes in a short 8mm film, made on a shoestring budget over the course of the year and featuring home-made makeup, costumes, props and scenery, Helmed by lifelong puppeteer David Barclay, who went on to bigger and better things as a world-famous animation, motion-capture and puppetry professional in such epics as The Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Little Shop Of Horrors and Cats And Dogs among many others, CORNELIUS AND ZIRA forms a bridge between the sci-fi classics BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES and ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES and reveals the untold story of how Cornelius, Dr Zira and Dr Milo fled the imminent destruction of Planet Earth. The main cast comprises David Barclay as curious chimpanzee archaeologist Cornelius and Jackie Lawrence as his wife, animal psychologist Zira, with Gary Cook (your host) as Dr Milo, Ernest Morris as the devious Dr Zaius and Frank Seymour as gorilla soldier Aboro. Produced and directed by David Barclay, who also created the prosthetic makeup in the style of the legendary John Chambers. This blog contains a collection of photos and animated screenshots, some of which you might have seen on my main Apes blog, Archives Of The Apes. Bear in mind that the original movie is on 8mm film, and much of the material presented here is third- or fourth-generation copies, so the quality may sometimes be a bit ropy.

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