Nathan Juran released his fantasy adventure extravaganza, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, in 1958. The movie provided Ray Harryhausen an opportunity to showcase the stop motion skills he had honed in so many previous films beginning back in 1947. My appreciation of the film and of the cyclops scene is partially due to the timing of my exposure. I was most likely 9 or 10 years old when I first saw the film. In New York City channel 11, WPIX was my source for old movies. On weekends it was a child’s dream destination with kung fu films, Kaiju films, adventure films, and a lot of Abbot and Costello for some reason.
