You may know the name Ray Harryhausen as someone who was a stop-motion pioneer, but the first project Harryhausen ever worked on was as Willis H. O’Brien‘s assistant animator. O’Brien created dinosaur and ape effects for films like King KongandMighty Joe Young, but one of his most lasting contributions was the filmThe Ghost of Slumber Mountain.
This was the first film to have both stop-motion and real-life footage exist in the same cinematic universe. We were to believe that these animated beings could threaten, interact, and possibly eat the human actors.
The historical implications of this are enormous when considering modern cinema’s deluge of CGI interactions. Studying and contextualizing this film and O’Brien’s work is a video essay by One Hundred Years of Cinema.
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