Another film innovator bites the dust.

[general eclect]

Ray Harryhausen, special effects pioneer, dies at 92
Ray Harryhausen, whose dazzling and innovative visual effects work on fantasy adventure films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963) augured the explosion of effects-driven cinema over the last 30 years, died in London on May 7 at the age of 92, according to his Facebook page.

Born in Los Angeles in 1920, Harryhausen began his love affair with stop-motion animation early after watching the seminal effects movie King Kong (1933). He started making his own stop-motion films in his family

 

[davoid]

Those skeletons were the best. Jason and the Argonauts is one of my favourite ever movies.

When the statue of Talos comes alive... that was scary when I was a kid.