вЂњI felt he deserved it,вЂќ Schneer told Starlog magazine (#152) in March 1990. Harryhausen even received co-producer credit on The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, a title he would also officially obtain on his and SchneerвЂ™s next and last two pictures, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) and Clash of the Titans. He didnвЂ™t just animate the monsters he was involved in the conceptual and story development, production design, and many other aspects, acting as a co-producer with Schneer and sometimes as a co-director - an agreement that any director of a Harryhausen film had to abide by. Unlike many visual effects artists even to this day, Harryhausen had an unusually high degree of creative control over his projects. the Flying Saucers (1956), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), The 7 th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), One Million Years B.C.(1966), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) and many others. Their run of pictures included fantasy and sci-fi classics such as Earth vs. Inspired by the groundbreaking stop-motion animation work in that film by Willis OвЂ™Brien, Harryhausen began experimenting with his own short films employing the same process.

Born in Los Angeles on June 29, 1920, a 13-year-old HarryhausenвЂ™s life was changed when he saw King Kong for the first time in 1933. Harryhausen was already a filmmaking legend by the time he began work on Clash of the Titans. вЂњIf some of the adventures were combined with 20 th century storytelling, a timeless narrative could be constructed that would appeal to both young and old.вЂќ вЂњGreek and Roman myths contained characters and fantastic creatures that were ideal for cinematic adventures,вЂќ wrote Harryhausen in his memoir, Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life. Starring a then-unknown Harry Hamlin, along with veteran stars like Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Burgess Meredith, and Ursula Andress, the film was loosely based on the Greek myth of Perseus (Hamlin), weaving in strands of other mythologies and legends and putting its hero into conflict with creatures like the Kraken, Calibos, Medusa the Gorgon and a two-headed dog named Dioskilos. It was 40 years ago, in June 1981, that Clash of the Titans, the last film to feature the stop-motion animation effects of Ray Harryhausen, was released.

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