The Dynamation of Ray Harryhausen
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 เม.ย. 2021
- To coincide with our exhibition Ray Harryhausen | Titan of Cinema we asked horror movie podcaster and Ray Harryhausen fan Becky Darke to share her thoughts on growing up with Harryhausen's films on wet bank holiday weekends.
Described as one of the most influential people in cinema, Ray Harryhausen's films have inspired generations of filmmakers, animators, writers, and artists, to push the boundaries of their own creations.
Written and narrated by Becky Darke.
Edited and produced by Mike Muncer.
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I met Ray Harryhausen a couple of times. He was not only a genius but a really nice person.
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I 100% agree with every bit of this essay: The 'real but not-real' (which somehow, to me, seems more 'real' than a lot of CGI), the thrill of watching RH's films when a kid (and never being too sure which Sinbad film is which) and the connection between watching things like Clash of The Titans and a later love of horror (I KNEW there must be a good reason why I own all of the Basket Case films on BluRay...!)
Thank you for your great celebratory video.All the things you love and put into your video is a great summary of all the things I also have long loved from Ray Harryhausen. In the late fifties, every Saturday, we neighborhood kids lined up for the all day matinee of 17 cartoons and 2 fantasy features. I think I saw every one of the amazing Ray Harryhausen films you mentioned - right there in that little theatre in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Today I'm still watching them and still being awed by them in visual effects courses.
He invented the use of skeletons to articulate the figures. He made metal skeletons which he inserted into the hand-modelled figures in sickly detail. I had the chance to see an exhibition of his where they included some of the fugures he used in the films. The level of detail is amazing. The pegasus had real feathers. A real genius.
You could say he invented rigging.
BEST memories. This is why I do what I do for work today!
Imagine what would’ve happened if Harryhausen and Eiji Tsuburaya ever had the chance to collaborate! Peace.
Wow, Becky Darke just summed up my entire life in relationship to Ray Harryhausen. Thank you so much for your Eloquent words.
I couldn't agree more with the narrator. Same experience in the States. These movies and their sfx have a charm about them that make me watch them with fascination and awe. Modern sfx is also great, just different, with its own merits. Still it's hard to beat sword-fighting skeletons and mechanical owls. Thank you.
Agreed!
I often wish he and Gerrry Anderson had collaborated. Dynamation and Supermarionation working side by side.
Great show. Was there today. amazing to come face to face with the Medusa. Probably one of the scariest characters from childhood memories. Obviously the fighting skeletons are so brill.
I agree about Medusa...it's the way she moved and turned her head and slithered on her belly.....eeeeeyi
Nice video. I actually have no interest in horror movies. But Harryhausen etched some impression my childhood brain, so I picked the dvds up as an adult. I rarely watch them, but I don't regret getting them. Golden Voyage is definitely my favourite. As a child, I think the one that made the biggest impression of me was either the gorilla one (Mickey Joe Young?: can't remember the name) or the one with the alien ('it came from outer space' was it called?) who gets hunted down but is an innocent. I always got suckered and bowled over by sob stories like that as a child. Part of who I am.
THIS ESSAY is the best !!!!!
YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!
Wow just great!
Love and peace. Tim
Ray was such a sweet guy.
Great video! Wasn't Pegasus animated by Jim Danforth?
I wouldn't say the casting was problematic. 300 had Gerard Butler and other's playing Greeks. It's acting!
I like his stuff better than cgi, I can’t put my finger on it, but it’s more entertaining to watch than cgi.
The sword fighting skeletons are the best!
I ❤ Gwangi.
Ray Harryhausen. German Genius!
“And some of the casting choices are certainly problematic....” (image of Tom Baker is on screen). Why? What's wrong with the Fourth Doctor?
Well it’s a white actor being brown faced as an Arab
@@cheetahluv210 it was 1974, so bore off with that crap. It is a film of its time and you're supposed to be mature enough to get it...
@@matthewh.9544 it’s int the past yes it shouldn’t have happened but we should all try to just enjoy the film for what it is
Am I a fan? Look at my avatar.
CGI doesn't even come close
“And some of the casting choices are CERTAINLY problematic....” 🙄 Can’t we just enjoy celebrating these great movies without injecting woke/cancel culture finger wagging?
Of course we can. At home, when enjoying the movie with a bowl of popcorn on a rainy bank holiday 🙂
But this is a piece of work, for a museum exhibition. If this isn't the right place to at least acknowledge the changing attitudes to 'blacking up' a white actor, then what is?
Guess what - there are blue eyed desert people in the Sahara - from times long ago when the northern Vandals invaded