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May 2008 

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Entertainment In Brief

The oldest animated movie screens in Vancouver. Once a Trekkie, always a Trekkie. Seriously. Always.

Long before WALL•E... (pictured above)

Vancouverites with a passion for cartoons can catch a screening of the oldest animated feature, The Adventures of Prince Achmed,  at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s “KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art” (May 17 to September 7). The 1926 cartoon by German artist Lotte Reiniger is based on stories from 1001 Arabian Nights, and was created by manipulating cardboard cut-outs and shooting each adjustment frame by frame (250,000 frames in all, 100,000 of which made it into the final film). The black-and-white images were then colour-tinted. Although two other animated features claim to have been created before Prince Achmed, prints no longer exist. —Marni Weisz

Live long and...oops

Trekkies will soon be able to transport to their final resting places in style inside a Star Trek  “Photon Torpedo” coffin, just like the one used to jettison the lifeless Spock (sniff) into space in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The coffin, manufactured by the American company Eternal Image — which also offers MLB-themed coffins and urns — has been officially approved by the Star Trek powers that be and should be available to purchase late next year. Look for a price tag somewhere between $4,000 and $5,000 (U.S.). If you’re thinking cremation, no worries, you can also choose an elegantly futuristic Star Trek urn ($800 U.S.) to hold your earthly remains. —Ingrid Randoja


Artifact

This month’s objet de film - The Golden Idol

She’s the artifact that started it all, the very first artifact Indiana Jones lusts after in 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 

The Golden Idol, protected by an elaborate system of obstacles including a giant, rolling ball of rock, is based on an actual Aztec statue of the Goddess of Obstetrics (the branch of medicine that deals with pregnancy). Note the baby poking out from between her legs. Why base the prop on a pregnant woman in the throes of giving birth? Director Steven Spielberg wanted Indy’s object of desire to have a horrific, fearsome look, which seemed “to be watching, cursing his every step.” That’d do it.
—Marni Weisz

Famous Articles - May 2008

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  4. Escape Wth Us!

    As the largest motion picture exhibitor in Canada, Cineplex Entertainment operates 130 theatres with 1,347 screens serving more than 70 million guests annually. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Cineplex Entertainment operates theatres from British Columbia to Quebec and is the largest exhibitor of digital, 3D and IMAX projection technologies in the country.