Tag Archives: Stop Motion
24 Hours of Stop Motion Creatures
The recent arrival of Indicator’s Sinbad Trilogy box set, collecting the three Sinbad films with special effects by Ray Harryhausen, and Indicator’s subsequent announcement of the forthcoming The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen Volume 1 (It Came from Beneath the … Continue reading
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
As fantasy films go, they don’t get much better than this. The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was also the seventh big-screen voyage of Ray Harryhausen, whose magical stop motion creatures populated Mighty Joe Young (1949, alongside mentor Willis O’Brien), … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Arabian Nights, Bernard Herrmann, cyclops, Dragon, Fantasy, genie, Kathryn Grant, Kerwin Mathews, Nathan Juran, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Eyer, Roc, Sirens, Skeleton, Stop Motion, Torin Thatcher
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), shot on location in the Canary Islands, is the most notable of Hammer’s attempts to recreate the global success of One Million Years B.C. (1966). It didn’t have Raquel Welch, and it didn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, cheesecake, dinosaurs, Fantasy, Hammer, Jim Danforth, prehistoric, Stop Motion, Val Guest, Victoria Vetri
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