The Stop Button
blogging by Andrew Wickliffe
Category: Directed by Ray Harryhausen
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The Storybook Review consists of four nursery rhymes told in stop motion animation. Director and animator Ray Harryhausen has a varying degree of success with the four, usually due to storytelling. For example, the Mother Hubbard entry goes on way too long even though it’s shortened from the original. Some of the problem is the…
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How to Bridge a Gorge isn’t just an instructional video about how to, you know, bridge a gorge… it’s Ray Harryhausen showing off the possibilities for what the short calls “three dimensional animation.” In a lot of ways, the possibilities he suggests in this short–made to showcase stop motion to the Army during World War…
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