Review of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) by Alan — 24 Aug 2008

Another landmark film for Ray with a remarkable set of animated characters. This was also Ray's first foray into using color film with his front and rear projection technique. He was reluctant to use color film due to the projected backrounds changing color when they were rephotographed for animation. He finally came up with a technique in exposing the film to cure the problem after many experiments.

The smaller cyclops which fights the dragon used the armature from the Ymir from his previous film. The steel ball and socket armatures were expensive to machine so Ray would reuse older puppet armatures to cut costs. The skeleton that Sinbad fights in the film was also reused as one of the seven skeletons in Jason. The film was a hit and was rereleased a number of times up through the 70's at theatres.