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Jun 28, 2020 · Celebrating Ray Harryhausen’s centenary: 10 essential films from the stop-motion genius. A hundred years after he was born, we pay tribute to the stop-motion special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen and his fabulous creature creations.
Aug 27, 2021 · Special effects legend Ray Harryhausen pioneered an entire way of making movies, and his influence is still felt today.
Perhaps the best stop-motion animator of all time, Ray Harryhausen—born on June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles—made a name for himself in an industry whose visual effects artists are too often ...
Bronze replica of the Rhedosaurus from ‘The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms’ (1953), sculpted by Ray Harryhausen. This was the first of Ray's solo features, and is yet another example of a character which proved to be exceedingly influential in the years to follow.
The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation is a charitable Trust set up by Ray on the 10th April 1986. It is the primary aim of the Foundation to protect Ray’s name and body of work as well as archiving, preserving and restoring Ray’s extensive collection.
We celebrate the centennial of stop motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen whose fantasy films ushered in a new era of special effects. From his early days on Mighty...
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Jun 17, 2019 · Although the sources for Harryhausen’s monsters often came from existing material – from myths and legends (Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans and his trilogy of Sinbad films), the fantastic literature of H.G. Wells (First Men in the Moon), Jules Verne (Mysterious Island) and Jonathan Swift (Three Worlds of Gulliver), they always contain something of his own genius.
