Show I Ra film set Wednesday at Towne Theater The Ra Expeditions winning award-winning film account of Thor Heyerdahl's epic voyages In a paper boat from Africa Alrica to the Americas will be shown at the Towne Theater In Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- raim on Wednesday Feb The book version of TheRa The TheRa TheRa Ra Expeditions Is currently high on the seller best lists Heyerdahl famous for his Kon- Kon Kon Tiki Tiki and Aku-Aku Aku adventures adventures tures made the voyages with eight other other brave men a monkey monkey mon mon- key and a duck to prove that thata a boat made only of papyrus reeds and rope a copy of those used thousands of years ago could ago could have carried Egyptians Egyptians Egyptians across the Atlantic to South America many centuries before Columbus His first attempt through howling storms and deadly calms failed only miles mUes short of landfall when the boats boat's stern section broke up and sank His second attempt succeeded dramatically Ra H n sailed miles In 57 days from Safi Safi Morocco to Barbados in the West Indies Movie cameraman for the voyage was Kei Kel Ohara of Japan who shot from every conceivable conceivable conceivable able angle aboard the tho craft as aswell aswell well weIl as from a rubber dinghy He managed to have his camera focused on every exciting detail de detail de- de tail tau on the voyage raging ragin g storms the crisis of a broken broke n steering oar shipboard shenanigans shenanigans shenanigans igans sharks cruising hungrily around the tiny craft near disaster disaster disaster dis dis- dis- dis aster then final triumph The Ra Expeditions has been called the most table adventure film of al all 1 time It received warm ac acclaim acclaim acclaim ac- ac claim at the 1971 In International International International In- In Film Festival In Milan Italy where It was a winner in the documentary cate cate- gory Rated G The Ra Expeditions Expeditions Expeditions is the most exciting g family entertainment to come this way In a long time The min te film was produced produced pro pro- and directed by Lennart LeMart Ehrenborg and distributed by Inter Interwest west Film Corp |