{"id":4466,"date":"2009-10-01T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2009-10-02T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:54:00","slug":"visions-of-war-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/01\/visions-of-war-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions of War Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the excitement of finding the eBay site from a while back when Willis O’Brien’s materials<\/a> relating to his aborted project War Eagles<\/em> were put up for sale, it’s even more exciting to have been sent another group of production images via one of Undead Backbrain’s correspondents — my official War Eagles Undercover Agent, nicknamed Richfrog.<\/p>\n

The following are conceptual drawings by the great animator himself:<\/p>\n

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\"war-eagle-02\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"war-eagle-03\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"war-eagle-04\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is an endoskeleton for the articulated model of a War Eagle, built by Marcel Delgado:<\/p>\n

\"war-eagle-modelo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is another endoskeleton, this time of a Viking warrior (for animation when riding the Eagles, no doubt):<\/p>\n

\"war-eagles-esquleto-viking\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Three Allosaurus models constructed for the proposed film:<\/p>\n

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Below are two images from the animated sequence that O’Brien and his crew put together before the production was abandoned: an Allosaurs fighting a giant eagle, and an Allosaurus in its (miniature) environment. We’ve seen them before<\/a>, but these versions are clearer.<\/p>\n

\"war-eagles-secuencia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"war-eagles-secuencia-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Spanish site<\/a> where these images come from gives a somewhat longer description of the plot of War Eagles. Here is my rough translation:<\/p>\n

It begins in 1938 when a historian called Hiran Cobb comes to believe that Vikings are still alive in a remote, and temperate, region of the north pole — a sort of the blind spot. In company with the stunt pilot Jimmy Mathews, Cobb begins a journey toward the pole to seek out the lost tribe, but his plane is forced to land in that unknown town after an attack by a giant white eagle controlled by the inhabitants. In “The Ancient Pass[?]”, as the area is called, Cobb will face a triceratops, a brontosaurus, a pterodactyl and a number of allosauri. Things get complicated when the German military comes on the scene, attacking New York from the air with a ray gun that neutralises all electric power installed in its giant Zeppelins. The Vikings and their giant eagles agree to stop the fleet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sources\/References<\/strong>:<\/p>\n