Clash of the Titans. But I've watched all his movies from the 50s, 60s, and 70s over and over again as a child/teen when they were on TV in the late 80s and early 90s.
Stop-motion animation was truly magical animation, almost as magical as 2D hand-drawn animation. It sure would be nice to have that kind of animation again. In fact, it would be nice to have both stop-motion and 2D back again.
Was fortunate enough to grow up in the 70's and mesmerized watching all of Harry's amazing Sinbad work in the movie theatres. I went on to have a long and wonderful career in animation myself and met Harry on a few special occasions. Truly a legend in movie making history.
I enjoy all his films, but in my opinion his work alongside Willis O’Brien and Pete Peterson for “Mighty Joe Young” is one of the best examples of stop motion character animation.
The complexity of the work when he smashes up the theatre is astonishing. All the wreckage falling is so meticulously done but to have Joe stumbling around a bit drunk while he does it was such a brilliant bit of character detail.
Without The Lost World there would be no King Kong, TBf20kF, Godzilla or Gwangi. The world doesn't works like this. Movies and creators influence other creators and their movies but those - a version of them - could still exists. Just maybe not exactly the way we know it.
I'm a big fan of Ray's work and movies. I watched them all as a child and adult. I even dabbled in stop motion through out the 80s and made a short film called the Cyclops vs the Ymir.
Yes, Ray and Charles Schneer would have clashes with Columbia Pictures studio heads over financing, and, thanks to this video, it just dawned on me that after "First Men in the Moon", it would be almost a decade when they would again release another movie at Columbia, "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad".
this video is great! I remember almost all of those movies from my childhood, but never realised how much hard work and love needed to be for making them. Never realised who was the artist behind all of it. I must wach them all again. You should be proud of your tribute
I knew Harryhausen. He stopped working on his final fairly tale film cuz he got busy on "Beast" for Warners and then his interest stayed with only feature length movies until his retirement. All four of Harryhausen's 1960s movies Columbia didn't do as well at the box office as everybody hoped (until decades later on video). That, along with too many other box office failures at Columbia (most of Columbia's Three Stooges movies didn't do as good as hoped, for example) brought in the new management who didn't renew Harryhausen's contract. In general, a nice tribute!
Definitely one of the masters of all time always making awesome fight scenes with other monsters not because it was easy, but because it was hard. Expanded the imaginations of millions of children.
Films and animated creatures: Mighty Joe Young (1949) - Mighty Joe Young The Beast from 20,000 Fanthoms (1953): - Rhedosaurus It Came from Beneath The Sea (1955): -It (Giant Octopus) The Animal World (1956): - Brontosaurus (Mother and one of her hatchlings) - Allosaurus - Stegosaurus - Ceratosaurus (two of them) - Triceratops - Tyrannosaurus Rex Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956): - Flying Saucers 20 Million Miles to Earth (1958): - Spacecraft - Ymir - Elephant The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958): - Cyclops - Serpent Woman (Naga or Lamia) - Roc (Parent and Hatchling) - Skeleton - European Dragon The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960): - Squirrel - Crocodile Mysterious Island (1961): - Crab - Phororhacos - Cephalopod - Bee Jason and thr Argonauts (1963): - Talos - Harpies - Hydra - Skeletons First Men in the Moon (1964): - Moonship - Space Sphere - Moon Cow - Kate Calender's Skeleton - Selenite - Grand Lunar One Million Years B.C. (1966): - Brontosaurus - Archelon - Allosaurus - Triceratops - Ceratosaurus - Pteranodon - Rhamphorhynchus - Pteranodon Hatchlings The Valley of Gwangi (1969): - Horse - Eohippus - Ornithomimus - Pteranodon - Styracosaurus - Gwangi/Allosaurus/Tyrannosaurus Rex The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973): - Homonicus - Figurehead - Kali - Centaur - Griffin Sinbad and The Eye of The Tiger (1977): - Ghouls - Baboon - Minoton/Minotaur - Hornet - Walrus - Troglodyte - Guardian of the Shrine Clash of the Titans (1981): - Vulture - Pegasus - Calibos - Bubo (Mechanical Horned Owl) - Dioskilos - Medusa - Scorpions - Kraken
Thank you for this, find stop-motion monsters to be in their way just as good and maybe a little better than CGI. King Kong has never been as real as the stop action Kong. And Harryhausen's work with "Mighty Joe Young" can be called excellent. Today we have fantastic CGI but no one seems to bother with the script/story. All the films Harryhausen put stop-motion monsters in had stories that put today's CGI heavy monster films to shame.
One thing I do find funny about Harryhausen's career: despite how dismissive he was of suitmation (one of my few genuine quibbles with him, since I like and appreciate that as well as stop-motion), not only did he play a major part in inventing the kaiju genre with The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (inspiration for Godzilla), his very last monster, the Kraken from Clash of the Titans, is essentially a kaiju (massive size, coming from the sea, capable of destroying an entire city at a time, stated as being able to withstand an army and immune to conventional weapons that ultimately requires the use of an oddball, outlandish means to defeat it, etc.)
It's kind of funny, Tomoyuki Tanaka & Ishiro Honda were inspired by "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (& King Kong) as inspiration for Godzilla although Honda was thinking of using a giant octopus as the main creature, after Godzilla was released I read that Harryhausen felt like Toho had ripped off his idea of the Rhedosaurus for Godzilla & the next year he released a movie about a giant octopus that attacked a city.
I wish he still made stop motion movies after clash of the titans so he could do stop motion for beetle juice and ghost busters and more RIP rayharryhausen
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="160">2:40</a> "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers"! The movie's storyline was suggested by the bestselling 1953 non-fiction book by Maj. Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space. Keyhoe's descriptions of UFO reports and Air Force investigations were used to give a realistic background to a fictional story. Keyhoe's recounts of descriptions of UFOs with a stationary central cabin and rotating slotted outer disk inspired the design of the saucers in the movie.
Maybe it's a consequence of the increased film clarity, but does anybody feel like the compositing is less hidden in Clash of the Titans and Voyage of Sinbad? The earlier movies look amazing in the way they combine stop motion and live action. I seriously have a hard time telling where the foreground ends and background begins. The stuff in the 70s and 80s has a little bit more obvious greenscreen going on.
Fun Fact about Ray’s The War of the Worlds Test Footage: The Scene that he made was his version of the chapter from the book “The Cylinder Opens” I say this because the footage was taken from some auto-biography on Harryhausen himself, the narrator said that it was “The climax where the Martian invaders succumb to bacteria”, even though it’s mirroring the dialogue from when the narrator first meets the Martians, the Martian falls out of the cylinder, it topples over the brim.
"Where did it all begin?" Well it actually started with the release of King Kong in 1933 a young and impressionable Ray Harryhausen saw it and was smitten by stop motion photography. NOT in 1940 Ray had already been dabbling in stop motion before the Evolution of the world.
Времена СССР мы смотрели много фильмы сказки,Кашея,бабы Ягу, Руслан и Людмила создатель Александра Роу замечательный талантливый человек был .Но помню 80год в кинотеатре шёл фильм Золотое путешествие Цындбада и 7ое очередь был огромный а билеты стоили 25копеек иногда 10к. Я был в шоке от увиденного это было нечто пичетляюший зрелище,спасибо Рею и создателям фильма шедевра ❤❤❤❤🧚🎉
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="190">3:10</a> something about this scene... I just can explain. Its almost like a i have dreamed the whole thing... so strange.
pas facile comme question je les aiment toussent passionnément mais puisqu' il faut en choisir un Jason et les argonnautes. un chef d oeuvre absolut de sont oeuvre.
Beat him hes amazing the way he makes created this monsters thy look a lote better than cenputeriest and cool 😎 and amazing the way micheal Jackson lookit when he wos body popping he lookit the same amazing cool looking stop motion
Why got to admire his work and the legacy that he left during the golden age of Hollywood, I would say that a lot of the stop motion did not age well for a live action movie, IMO it looks too cartoony now and when looking at movies like the classic Star Wars trilogy those uses of puppets and stop motion look far more smooth and clear why here the stop motion is clearly obvious and ruins the scene a bit and in some modern movies CGI looks a lot more realistic when done right like say Avatar and Jurassic Park. Again not bashing his work as it was ahead of its time for the time period but nowadays it's something a person could easily do with a camera at home and there is movies now that have more realistic looking creatures that put some of these to shame.
Clash of the Titans was the absolute worst Harryhausen film by far. Not only did Harryhausen break most of his own rules, but every special effect in the film was of the lowest quality. I was embarrassed for Ray while watching it as a kid. I watched it again recently and it was even worse than I remembered. The difference in quality between this and 7th Voyage is remarkable.
