The Valley is a 1976 stop motion live action[1] adventure/fantasy[2] post-apocalyptic short film made by a then fifteen-year-old Peter Jackson with his friends.
It was filmed silent on a Super 8 camera and was shown on the children's television show Spot On.
Four prospectors walk into a valley and unwittingly enter a rift in the time/space continuum.
The two remaining (Ken Hammon and Andrew Neal) have to fight and destroy a cyclops.
This ruin, unbeknownst to them, is the Beehive building of Wellington city – they have not travelled back in time but ahead into a post-apocalyptic world taken over by mythical beasts.