Product Information
In An Animated Life (Aurum, 2003) Ray Harryhausen told the story of his career as the acknowledged grandmaster of special effects in the pre-computer era, the creator of classics such as One Million Years BC, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of Titans. In this new book the focus is not on the movies themselves, but on the vast hoard of artwork which Harryhausen has carefully preserved in his London home. These include preliminary sketches, elaborate drawings of key scenes and carefully plotted storyboards, all produced as he sought backing for his next venture and prepared to undertake the laborious task of animating the prehistoric creatures, aliens and mythical monsters which stole scene after scene from the human actors. There are also the tiny, elaborately articulated models which Harryhausen created to play these roles and the bronzes which he cast to preserve their forms in perpetuity. This stunning array of images is a tribute to the scope of Harryhausen's imagination and his artistic skills which no student of special effects or cinema history will want to be without.Product Identifiers
PublisherAurum Press
ISBN-139781845131142
eBay Product ID (ePID)91706988
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Art of Ray Harryhausen
AuthorTony Dalton, Ray Harryhausen
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height287mm
Item Width245mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRay Harryhausen, Tony Dalton
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom