{"id":4485,"date":"2013-05-07T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:47:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:47:03","slug":"ray-harryhausen-a-legend-moves-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/ray-harryhausen-a-legend-moves-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Harryhausen – A Legend Moves On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Funny thing about getting older. You *know* it’s gonna happen. But every time one of your childhood heroes passes away, it takes you completely by surprise. I had that reaction when we lost Red Skelton<\/a> (1997…and yes there’s a song in there). I welled up when film critic icon Roger Ebert<\/a> left us just a matter of weeks ago. This morning I just stared in silence when I learned that Ray Harryhausen<\/a>, the master of stop-motion animation, passed away at 92.<\/p>\n

\"ray3\"<\/a>Everyone in my demographic – in other words, you’re at least as old as me – knows his work. He worked with tiny models and only one or two – if even that many – assistants. He posed, shot, and re-posed, and re-shot his models one frame of film at a time – standard film is 24 frames per second – bringing to life characters from Greek mythology, dinosaurs, even flying saucers – and all this decades before computers and CGI.
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\"ray2\"<\/a>Those of you who grew up in the bay area might have caught his work on Channel 2’s “Creature Features”<\/a> on Saturday Nights or the Sunday “Monster Mash” on Channel 36. Do any of these sequences take you back a bit?<\/p>\n