Ray Harryhausen Pledges Collection of Life’s Work to National Media Museum

LONDON.- On the day of Ray Harryhausen’s 90th birthday, at the official opening of the exhibition “Ray Harryhausen – Myths and Legends” at the London Film Museum, the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation has announced its intention to deposit the Collection of the life’s work of celebrated special effects animator Ray Harryhausen at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK. Harryhausen made his name by developing fantastic animated creatures based on legends and classical mythology, and creating a unique body of fantasy films from the 1950s to the 1980s that took the movie making world, and the public, by storm. His speciality was combining stop-motion puppet animation seamlessly with live action cinematography through his innovative technique of Dynamation. Harryhausen’s films

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