Stop Motion Legend Ray Harryhausen

The video reminds me how this was cutting edge stuff as a kid.

Ray Harryhausen is an American producer and, most notably, a special effects creator. Before the advent of computers for camera motion control and CGI, movies used a variety of approaches to achieve animated special effects in movies. One approach was one of the many kinds of stop-motion animation which used realistic miniature models used famously in King Kong.

After having seen King Kong for the first of many times in 1933, Harryhausen spent his early years experimenting in the production of short animated bits, inspired by the burgeoning science fiction literary genre of the time period.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4

 

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