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A final stop for the master of stop-motion animation

posted by [personal profile] revdorothyl at 04:31pm on 07/05/2013 under
I just heard on the news that Ray Harryhausen died today, and so I had to pause to reflect on the end of an era -- an epoch, even -- in sci-fi and fantasy film-making.

Though I only saw one of his films in a first-run theater (the Harry Hamlin version of "Clash of the Titans", long before the actor cut his hair and buttoned up for "L.A. Law"), I grew up on his "Sinbad" and other fantastic/monster movies in TV reruns.

At the risk of sounding (and being) trite, there is one less Titan among us here on earth.
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posted by [identity profile] texanfan.livejournal.com at 12:19am on 08/05/2013
I couldn't agree with you more. He was a giant in the industry. A wizard who created, through painstaking labor and patience, effects that stand up today.
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posted by [identity profile] redeem147.livejournal.com at 11:01pm on 08/05/2013
There were once four friends, giants in science fiction. Julius Schwartz, Forry Ackerman, Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen. Now they're all gone. The world is a dimmer place for it.
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