Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton, Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life, Aurum Press Ltd, London, 2003 Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton, A Century of Model Animation: From Méliès to Aardman, Aurum Press Ltd., London, 2008 Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton, The Art of Ray Harryhausen, Aurum Press Ltd, London, 2005 Tony Dalton, Ray Harryhausen: A Life in Pictures, The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, Edinburgh, 2014 If you would like to learn more about Harryhausen or some of the themes raised in the exhibition, the following is a select list for further reading: Ray Harryhausen Please note that some of the films explored in the exhibition reflected outdated cultural stereotypes and themes. This exhibition was a collaboration with the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation to celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday year. We also examined just how Dynamation works - the illusion of layering backgrounds and footage of real actors to show them interacting with models on film - which Harryhausen developed and used to incredible effect.Īlongside this exhibition we also created Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema Virtual Exhibition Experience, a carefully curated package which includes a series of films, never-seen-before interviews, exhibition footage, film clips and specially created animation sequences which demonstrate Harryhausen’s innovative processes. The exbitionion also featured Harryhausen’s sketches and storyboards as well as original movie posters.
It included memorable characters like Medusa, the Kraken, and Bubo the owl, as well as his iconic skeleton army from Jason and the Argonauts. Titan of Cinema showed his creative processes: from embryonic preparatory sketches, through to model making and bringing characters to life who went onto terrorise and delight audiences in equal measure on the cinema screen.Īt the heart of this incredible display were Harryhausen’s creatures. Titan of Cinema traced Harryhausen’s career as a special effects guru, whose only limits was his boundless imagination. He inspired a generation of filmmakers such as Peter Jackson, Aardman Animations, Tim Burton, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg, and his influence on blockbuster cinema can be felt to this day. Ray Harryhausen's work included the films Jason and the Argonauts, the Sinbad films of the 1950s and 1970s, One Million Years B.C. His innovative and inspiring films, from the 1950s onwards, changed the face of modern movie making forever. This largest and widest-ranging exhibition of Ray Harryhausen’s work ever seen contained newly restored and previously unseen material from his incredible archive.
Film special effects superstar Ray Harryhausen helped elevate stop motion animation to an art.
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