I've never seen Tim Burton so ecstatic and talkative and animated! It's wonderful how much he admires Ray and how he's eating up every moment being there with his idol :)
You can tell Tim Burton really respects and admires Ray Harry like I do. His work is amazing and you can tell that Tim has the upmost respect for him. So Fucking HUMBLE!!!! 🥺😭
I am so glad that Burton expressed so well his admiration and appreciation of the work of this incredibly talented and wonderful man. Harryhausen has touched so many of us. He has fired up the imagination of so many of us, growing up in the 60's and 70's.
I'm just going to echo a few other comments and say that I don't think I have ever seen Tim Burton so animated in discussing....anything! I realise he's not exactly known for being verbally articulate, but I personally think it was an interview with real flow as Burton so obviously adores Harryhausen's work and Harryhausen seems pleased to talk to someone who is so genuinely enthusiastic.
Ray is genius! He has added so much personality in his animation. It was him and Willis O'Brian that have greatly inspired me. His animation is fantastic even in his B pictures. Thanks Ray!!!!!!!
I've never seen Tim so excited, he was like a little kid during this interview. Thanks so much for uploading. I've always been a huge fan of stop motion and I love this. RIP Ray Harryhausen.
Thank You Ray making me so happy growing up in my younger years and my mom and dad used to take me to Drive Ins to watch your movies in the 70's and today movies dont close !!..Ray God bless you and we miss you!!
I never did get to meet Mr Harryhausen, but his skeleton army is the the reason I now make little steel knights and many other tiny mechanical marvels. I have my fingers-crossed but I hope to work with the charming imagineer Tim Burton some time soon (I have already been VERY close to once)... I can feel it in my bones (pun intended)! 🏆🎬
When I was a kid, these movies came on on Saturday and Sunday, my brothers always wanted to watch sports, I always wanted to watch this stuff. I was the youngest, so never got to see much. One TV back then.
As a kid, I remember when I would see Ray Harryhausen's name in the opening credits, I knew I was about to taken away to wondrous worlds full of adventure! Medusa was my favorite and I find her as terribly frightening now as I did as a child. Thank you Ray for all your hard work and imagination!
Fantastic ..memories and great to see Tim so fascinated (and knowledgeable). RIP Ray..you brought fun n excitement to a young boy who had TV as his best childhood friend.
As a kid, One Million Years B.C. changed my life. Interestingly, the next most impactful film for me may be Burton's Batman. I never knew Tim was such a fan of Rays. It's awesome to see the 2 together.
Ray Harryhausen great animator. Jack Cardiff great photographer. Two Legends who kept early to mid cinema thrilling and beautiful to watch. And you knew instinctively any film they were involved .
I was so very lucky to have met Ray at a science fiction convention in the late 80's; out in the hall where he was waiting for his handlers to take him to dinner. We spent almost twenty minutes chatting about illustration; just two artists sharing their passion for the craft. It didn't matter to him where you were at that moment in time, just that you were doing something interesting with your own talent.
OMGossshhh! How awesome! I never knew abt this. Love R. Harryhousen's creations! I hav most of his movies on DVD. I SO respect them both! Thx 4 this one 🙂🙂💕💕 * Also own many of Tim Burton's films, as well.. 2 geniuses..hands dn!!
I have some of the X figures in cold cast resin. The skeletons have such power to their expressions and posture. The Hydra heads are perfectly detailed. I would wish if anything to see Ray sculpt a head on video. At the scale he worked at.
Mr Harryhausen was the best known man of special effects and movies. Clash of the Titans is my favorite. My favorite monster is Pegasus. Sometimes I would like to have an animal like that as a pet
This is such a charming video. Tim Burton - clearly a successful and visionary director showing respect to Mr. Harryhausen. There are many documentaries which show some of the greatest Sci-Fi & fantasy filmmakers talk about Ray with such enthusiasm. His special FX creations were the fantastic adventures of our childhoods, brought to life in a way that CGI could never accomplish.
Ray showed me my first monsters and special fx. I spent untold hours in front of a b/w television in the middle of the night devouring old movies as a kid. He sparked my interest in creating images that can not exist in the real world, that are birthed in my mind and demand a release so that I can enlighten, beautify, or torture those around me. Tim Burton has a unique dark and twisted vision I also enjoy. He is a great talent to be reckoned with in our age of pablum entertainment, money chasing and BS celebrity worship.
4:20 It’s the Ymir from 20 Million Miles To Earth. 15:46 I’m picking up what they’re saying. 15:49 Ray Harryhausen took down the Monument in Earth Vs The Flying Saucers, Tim Burton took down the Monument in Mars Attacks.
Their discussion about what young viewers could handle struck a chord with me. As a kid I was scared of nearly everything that wasn't Disney, Bluth, or Henson. And yet while watching all of the old movies Harryhausen worked on, I wasn't scared either but rather thrilled. The Medusa scene from Clash of the Titans was especially tense but in a fun way.
Back in the '70s I had never heard of The Valley of Gwangi until I saw a friend's coloring book about it. When the movie came on the CBS Late Show, I flipped out I was so excited. Interestingly, the coloring book's drawings captured the movie images in a startling way.
Just a note that for all the crap CG takes (and it deserves some of it) when it's done right there's nothing better. And before motion capture some 3D characters were animated by hand using a stop motion style model that sent signals into the computer for the animator then they were touched up. I'm a huge fan of stop motion. Played around with it in the 80s. Some of Ray's films are my favs...
Friendly reminder that if you ever come around to interview a legend stop brambling and let the person talk goddammit. Only discovered this interview now and sadly Harryhausen has passed away since sadly. What a missed opportunity!!!!
I wasn't going to bother signing in until I read mxylpx's comment, I had to agree, with more than a thumbs up,...maybe that is why Tim needs to express himself with animation,...not exactly eloquent or spontaneously articulate, Bob Costas could have pulled this off without any research, I don't watch any sports on TV at all,...that's how good Bob is, but this is not about Bob. Even before I knew who Ray Harryhausen was, or what stop action was, in my memory banks, were stored my favorite parts of all of the movies that I had seen, I later learned that one man was responsible, I learned what stop action was and how animation worked long before I knew about Ray, and he was, and is great, still.
Tim has never been good at expressing himself. He is a little socially awkward but this interview truly made him happy so I'm not gonna rate his skills as an interviewer.
St John 3:16! 💓 JESUS is RETURNING SOON! ALLELUIA! 🙏🙌 My nephew was genius ALSO! He made sculptures, and puppets and other artwork. He just became ill with kidney problems so he never went into professional art. I'm here to see medusa. So scary in my youth. THANK GOD for this talent! 👏👏
The realism caused people to believe dinosaurs were from millions of years ago. But the LORD made everything only a few thousand years ago. I'm in LOVE with JESUS! "All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:3! HALLELUJAH! 🙏🙌
