Retired since the original Clash of the Titans (1981), he is still recognized as the master of the technique, more recently used in Corpse Bride and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (both 2005).
After the war, he was contacted by his idol, O’Brien (who had told him to study more anatomy when they met in 1939), and ended up doing most of the animation on Mighty Joe Young as his assistant. This was shown to Frank Capra, who had him transferred to his Special Service Division, where Harryhausen worked in various capacities. After working on George Pal’s Puppetoon shorts, Harryhausen joined the armed forces in the Signal Corps unit as an assistant cameraman and, on his own, produced the animated short How to Bridge a Gorge. His first attempts at stop-motion animation, in which a detailed armature is moved incrementally and photographed frame by frame, then composited with live-action footage, were made in his garage. ” Fittingly, Harryhausen’s first solo effort, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), was based on Bradbury’s story (aka “The Fog Horn”).īorn on June 29, 1920, in Los Angeles, Harryhausen supplemented his lifelong interest in dinosaurs and gorillas by studying sculpture and anatomy in high school and night film classes at USC.
Harryhausen got work with Willis O’Brien, Kong’s animator, on Mighty Joe Young. Because of its fabulous monsters razoring the air with their electric cries, I stayed in touch with ancient beasts and wound up writing the screenplay of Moby Dick for John Huston. Kong changed our lives, only for the good, forever. Borst’s Graven Images, “he killed two kids with one slam, me and my pal Ray Harryhausen. “When King Kong fell from the Empire State,” Ray Bradbury recalled in Ronald V. On the occasion of his 90th birthday, we revisit this profile written for the late, lamented original Scifipedia website.
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