The four and a half minute compliation of every Ray Harryhausen animated creature in feature films, presented in chronological order.
The song is "Mon Ti," from the incomparable Tito Puente's album "Top Percussion."
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The epic dinosaur attack sequence from 1956's The Beast From Hollow Mountain.
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The collected stop-motion animation sequences from Sam Newfield's 1951 feature "Lost Continent".
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This well-executed special effects sequence by Boss Films looks a lot like the images that NASA JPL's Cassini Saturn probe is sending us today.
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A compilation of the best stop-motion effects from the 1970 film Equinox, created by today's leaders in the special effects industry.
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Stop-motion master David Allen perfectly animated King Kong for this 1972 Volkswagen commercial.
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The extraordinary dream sequence from Ray Dennis Steckler's masterpiece, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964).
The marvelous miniature effects from the early talkie Lost Zeppelin, set to James Horner's "The Zeppelin".
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A fantastic stop-motion dinosaur attack from 1978's Planet of Dinosaurs.
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Pete Peterson's rediscovered test reel for The Las Vegas Monster.
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From the 1951 Lesley Selander film Flight To Mars. An intrepid female astronaut braves hardships on a perilous rocket journey to the red planet. On Mars, she finds a woman's paradise, complete with mechanical dishwashers.
Jim Aupperle animates a convincing monster on episode six of Jason of Star Command, "Planet of the Lost."
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Super 8 pixillation. I shot this with the tireless help of my close friend Evan Gage around 1990.
Pixillation is the technique of using actors with traditional animation techniques. Animator Norman McLaren may have created the term in the late 1940's or early 1950's, and his Neighbours (1952) remains one of the best examples.
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