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Show "Ra Expedition" Plays at Grove Theatre on Feb. 14 "The Ra Expeditions," award winning film account of Thor Heyerdahl's epic voyages in a paper boat from Africa to the Americas opens soon (Feb. 14) in this area for a one-day exclusive ex-clusive run. The book version of "The Ra Expeditions" is currently high on the best-seller lists. Heyerdahl, famous for his Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku adventures, adven-tures, made the voyage with 8 other brave men, a monkey and a duck to prove that a boat made only of papyrues reeds and rope a copy of those used us-ed thousands of years ago could have carried Egyptians across the Atlantic to South America many centuries before Columbus. His first attempt, through howling storms and deadly calms, failed only 500 miles short of landfall when the boat's stern section broke up and sank His second attempt succeeded dramatically. Ra H sailed 3,270 miles in 57 days from Safi, Morocco to Barbados in the West Indies. Movie cameraman for the voyage was Kei Ohara of Japan, Jap-an, who shot from every conceivable con-ceivable angle aboard the craft as well as from a rubber dinghy. din-ghy. He managed to have his camera focused on every exciting excit-ing detail of the voyage from raging storms to the sharks cruising hungrily around the tiny craft. 'Rated G, "The Ra Expeditions" Expedi-tions" is the most exciting family fam-ily entertainment to come this way in a long time. |