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A Film Series Only We Could Host
B-Movies and Bad Science is back at La Brea Tar Pits!
Bring your picnic blanket and cozy up to watch a movie in Hancock Park at the Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits. Come join us for thrills, chills, and, yes, all the goofiness of those vintage sci-fi and horror flicks, and get here early for a light-hearted discussion with our own science experts, as we introduce the day's featured movie to see if there's any common ground between science fact and science fiction.
Check out a spotlighted specimen from the collection or the colorful B-movie memorabilia, including lobby cards, posters, and even actual movie props. See it all, and you'll agree that real science can be just as wild and out of this world as reel science!
This summer will be all about dinosaurs and their sci-fi counterparts, ironically taking place at the Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits, a dinosaur-free environment.
Schedule
Saturday, July 23
Jurassic Park (1993)
Movie begins at 8:30 pm
An unusual theme park suffers a major power breakdown that causes its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run loose. The most fascinating subject for our curators? Extracting DNA from prehistoric insects from amber! Before the film, Entomology Curator Brian Brown will reveal the possibilities of this fantastical experiment.
Saturday, July 30
Dinosaurus! (1960)
Movie begins at 8:30 pm
Prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the the residents of an island after a few undersea explosions. Also freed from the apocalyptic events is a Neanderthal man who faces off with an angry dinosaur!
Saturday, August 6
The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
A fame- hungry cowboy captures a dinosaur living in the Forbidden Valley and puts it in a Mexican circus, which ends in a bloody battle! Another film featuring the stop-action special effects talent of Ray Harryhausen.
Saturday, August 20
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Movie begins at 8:30 pm
In this third edition of the Ice Age trilogy, Sid the Sloth’s attempt to snatch three dinosaur eggs gets him taken by the real dino mother to an underground world.
Saturday, August 27
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Movie begins at 8:30 pm
A caveman is banished from his home and finds temporary shelter among a group of oceanside cave dwelling people. After a second banishment, he sets forth with a beautiful cavewoman played by Raquel Welch! Adventures begin to take shape as they face the harsh prehistoric world as a couple.