An Animated Life

Inspired by the film "King Kong", at the age of 13 Ray Harryhausen knew hisuture lay in special effects. Following on from his mentor Willis O'Brien,reator of Kong, Ray took the art and skill of stop-motion animation one stepurther, weaving his magic on dinosaurs, aliens and mythological creatureslike.;From humble beginnings working in his father's garage animating aelection of Fairy Tales, to blockbuster movies on location in the Yemen,taly, Malta and Spain, Ray has seen and done it all. The last great animatorefore the introduction of CGI, he takes us through the pleasures anditfalls of 60 years' bringing inanimate objects to life.;Learn how Raquelelch was picked up by a flying dinosaur in "One Million Years BC", why thectopus in "Mysterious Island" was only a sixtopus, and what Medusa's bloodas made from in "Clash of the Titans". From the flying harpies in "Jason andhe Argonauts" to battling skeletons in the "7th Voyage of Sinbad", Rayxplains the films' journeys, from original concept through to the critics'eviews.;Anecdotal, insightful and honest, "An Animated Life" features