Clash of the Titans 1981

Clash of the Titans (1981) Trailer

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan streaming

Ray Harryhausen - Special Effects Titan

That bronze giant in the clip is a 14-inch puppet. One man built it, lit it, and moved it by hand, one tiny adjustment at a time. No team. No computers. He was the entire special effects department for the movie.His name was Ray Harryhausen. The skeleton fight scene took him four months to finish. He got less than one second of usable footage per day. He'd film the live actors swinging their swords at nothing, then go back and animate each skeleton puppet to match, frame by frame by frame. Seven