Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

2012 · 90 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 1,380 VOTES · DIR. Gilles Penso

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Overview

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.

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Dialogue Timeline — 1,402 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:23 - Ray Harryhausen. - Ray Harryhausen.
00:04:14 (man) We were both 18 and we both loVed King Kong
00:07:54 I mean. I know that there was Willis O'Brien as the great-grandfather.
00:11:40 (man) He'd shoot the liVe action first
00:15:14 And that was the only way to do it at that time.
00:18:58 Another one that would be sadness.
00:22:37 from different cameramen who had made pictures
00:26:58 'Tlne 7tln Voyage Of Sinbad is the eighth wonder of the screen! '
00:30:26 Suddenly it's in colour and it comes out on the beach
00:34:45 And the Rank laboratory had a traVelling matte system
00:38:43 to add to the final screenplay that you saw on the screen.
00:43:13 And he said. "I looked up to the sky. There was the monster."
00:46:58 so that the human being is the same size as the skeleton.
00:50:56 (dramatic string music)
00:54:24 And they would ensure that the actor's performance
00:58:13 and droVe in front of us
01:02:01 But. Boy. His elements. When he made clay liVe.
01:06:19 "Look at the eye! Look at the eye!" And this was Ray's eye-line for the actors.
01:10:18 I don't think it was always this way.
01:14:06 You always leaVe an allowance
01:17:46 and I had a great chance when clasln Of Tlne Titans came about.
01:21:32 (Ray) When clasln Of Tlne Titans came about.
01:25:45 (Tony) The Ray and diana Harryhausen Foundation.
20:00:00 being the first monster rampage moVie

Cast & Characters

Ray Harryhausen Self - Filmmaker Peter Jackson Self - Director of The Hobbit Terry Gilliam Self - Director of Brazil Guillermo del Toro Self - Director of Hellboy James Cameron Self - Director of Terminator & Avata Tim Burton Self - Director of Mars Attacks John Landis Self - Director of Blues Brothers Henry Selick Self - Director of The Nightmare Before Christmas Ray Bradbury Self - Author of The Martian Chronicles & Fahrenheit 451 Tony Dalton Self - Film Historian

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,402
Dialogue density15.6 lines / min
First line00:00:23
Final line20:00:00

Production Record

DirectorGilles Penso
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,380