The Valley (1976 film)

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The Valley
Directed by Peter Jackson
Starring
  • Ken Hammon
  • Peter Jackson
  • Andrew Neal
Edited byPeter Jackson
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish

The Valley is a 1976 New Zealand adventure fantasy [1] short amateur film made by a then fifteen-year-old Peter Jackson with his friends. [2] [3] Combining live action and stop motion animation, [4] it was strongly influenced by the films of Ray Harryhausen. It was filmed silent on a Super 8 camera and was shown on the children's television show Spot On .

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Plot

Four prospectors walk into a valley and unwittingly enter a rift in the time/space continuum. As they journey down the valley, one of the prospectors (Ian Middleton) gets taken away by a harpy. Another prospector (Peter Jackson) falls off a cliff. The two remaining (Ken Hammon and Andrew Neal) have to fight and destroy a cyclops. They build a raft, float across a lake, and see a building in ruins. This ruin, unbeknownst to them, is the Beehive building of Wellington city – they have not travelled back in time but ahead into a post-apocalyptic world taken over by mythical beasts.

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Reception

The short has been described as "a tribute to special effects master Ray Harryhausen". [5]

References

  1. ↑ "10 great films by really young directors". British Film Institute. 12 April 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  2. ↑ The Valley (Short 1976) – IMDb , retrieved 10 April 2023
  3. ↑ The Valley (1976) , retrieved 10 April 2023
  4. ↑ Vossen, Ursula (2004). Von Neuseeland nach Mittelerde: die Welt des Peter Jackson (in German). Schüren. ISBN   978-3-89472-349-1.
  5. ↑ Woods, Paul A. (2005). Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor. Plexus. ISBN   978-0-85965-356-5.

Bibliography

Secondary filmography


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