# RIP Ray Harryhausen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 7, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719 "2013-05-07T17:17:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/41 "2013-05-08T22:11:09Z")
How many of [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen#Filmography) have you seen? > [@](#): > > \*\*Filmography \*\* > > How to Bridge a Gorge (1942) (producer) > Tulips Shall Grow (1942) (chief animator) > Mother Goose Stories (1946) (producer) > The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1949) (producer, animator) > Mighty Joe Young (1949) (first technician) > The Story of Rapunzel (1951) (producer) > The Story of Hansel and Gretel (1951) (producer) > The Story of King Midas (1953) (producer) > The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) (visual effects) > It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (visual effects) > The Animal World (1956) (effects technician) > Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) (special photographic, animation effects) > 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) (visual effects) > The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) (associate producer, visual effects) > The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) (visual effects) > Mysterious Island (1961) (special visual effects) > Jason and the Argonauts (1963) (associate producer, visual effects) > First Men in the Moon (1964) (associate producer, visual effects) > One Million Years B.C. (1966) (special visual effects) > The Valley of Gwangi (1969) (associate producer, visual effects) > The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) (producer, visual effects) > Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) (producer, visual effects) > Clash of the Titans (1981) (producer, visual effects) > The Story of The Tortoise & the Hare (2003) (director, co-producer, animator) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/42 "2013-05-08T22:12:47Z")
But _Flesh Gordon_ – apparently not one of his . . . 😕 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/43 "2013-05-08T22:21:55Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > How many of [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen#Filmography) have you seen? The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) (visual effects) It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (visual effects) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) (associate producer, visual effects) Mysterios Island (1961) (special visual effects) Jason and the Argonauts (1963) (associate producer, visual effects) One Million Years B.C. (1966) (special visual effects) The Valley of Gwangi (1969) (associate producer, visual effects) The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) (producer, visual effects) Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) (producer, visual effects) Clash of the Titans (1981) (producer, visual effects) I haven’t seen 1MYBC in about 40 years (Raquel Welch, right?) - but I thought it had the stupid “lizards with prosthetics” approach to dinosaur fx. (Like The Lost World). Guess not. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/44 "2013-05-08T22:48:34Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) (visual effects) > \I haven’t seen 1MYBC in about 40 years (Raquel Welch, right?) - but I thought it had the stupid “lizards with prosthetics” approach to dinosaur fx. (Like The Lost World). Guess not. There is **one** prosthetic dinosaur (a monitor lizard with a dorsal crest IIRC). There are an animated giant sea turtle, a juvenile carnosaur (either an allosaurus or a T-rex, I don’t remember the number of digits), a sauropod, a ceratopsian and two pterosaurs. I think I remembered them all. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/45 "2013-05-08T22:55:48Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I always thought that in Attack of the Clones during the arena fight when the Horned monster first emerges he looks a little herky jerky on purpose as a tribute to Ray. [I guess I kind of see it.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=keBe6zKPDAI#t=175s) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/46 "2013-05-09T00:35:30Z")
He’ll never appear truly dead as long as we can move his corpse a fraction of an inch at a time ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/47 "2013-05-09T00:54:46Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > How many of [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen#Filmography) have you seen? Allof them except the first two and a couple of the fairy tales. I didn’t see all of _The Animal World_, but I saw the parts that Harryhausen aimated with Willis O’Brien. I’ve seen many of the films a LOT of times, and own several on VHS and/or DVD. As I mentioned above, he has more recently been supervising colorizing of some classics, like **She**. And he had a cameo (along with Terry Moore) in the remake of _Mighty Joe Young_ > [@](#): > > In the animated film Monsters Inc, they named a ritzy restaurant Harryhausen’s in tribute. Another tribute is in **The Corpse Bride** , where the model of the piano is a “Harryhausen”. In the animated film **Planet of Dinosaurs** (which featured excellent models and animation, but incredibly awful acting) they gave another tribute to Harryhausen – one of the finosaurs is Harryhausen’s _Rhedosaurus_, from **The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms** **Beast** , by the way, is the _UR_-1950s monster flick. It was the first to feature all the cliches of those films – but since it did it first, they weren’t yet cliches. **Them!** and **Godzilla** and all the others came later. It also featured the first use of Harryhausen’s Dynamation/Dynarama/Reality Sandwich technique, which he introduced as a low-cost way of getting around the kind of extensive set fabrication and glass painting that had been used in _King Kong_ and other animated features. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/48 "2013-05-09T03:16:54Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > But _Flesh Gordon_ – apparently not one of his . . . 😕 Nope, but Flesh Gordon’s FX team (which included Rick Baker and Jim Danforth) paid tribute to him twice over with the Great God Porno - one, of course, is Porno obviously being a riff on his work, the second being the nickname they gave him on the set - Nesuahyrrah - Harryhausen in reverse. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/49 "2013-05-09T10:52:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > How many of [these](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen#Filmography) have you seen? Mighty Joe Young (1949) The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Mysterious Island (1961) Jason and the Argonauts (1963) First Men in the Moon (1964) One Million Years B.C. (1966) The Valley of Gwangi (1969) The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) Clash of the Titans (1981) Pretty much all but the fairy tales. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/50 "2013-05-09T18:34:45Z")
Mighty Joe Young (1949) (first technician) The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) (visual effects) It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (visual effects) Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) (special photographic, animation effects) 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) (visual effects) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) (associate producer, visual effects) The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) (visual effects) Mysterious Island (1961) (special visual effects) Jason and the Argonauts (1963) (associate producer, visual effects) First Men in the Moon (1964) (associate producer, visual effects) One Million Years B.C. (1966) (special visual effects) The Valley of Gwangi (1969) (associate producer, visual effects) The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) (producer, visual effects) Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) (producer, visual effects) Clash of the Titans (1981) (producer, visual effects) ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/51 "2013-05-09T18:56:07Z")
All of them, icluding the fairy tales. I have friend who is a nut on all things Ray. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719/52 "2013-05-09T19:02:30Z")
If you have Sony Movie Channel on demand (should be availble under Free Movies on FIOS) it currently is showing Ray Harryhausen:Special Effects Titan, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ray-harryhausen/657719.md?page=2)