An American producer's work is about to go on show in Sale
There are a number of two-word phrases which many associate with Ray Harryhausen: Special effects, stop motion, Academy Award, and Hollywood legend. But Greater Manchester hasn’t really ever been one of them - until now, that is.
For the last few years, It has been up to filmmaker John Walsh, who is also the author behind Harryhausen: The Lost Movies, to dust off and sort through the vast collection, which has been hailed as one of the largest animation archives in history asides from the Walt Disney Company. “I knew Ray lived in London at the time, so I got a telephone directory and looked him up. Thankfully, there was only one R. Harryhausen listed so I thought I’d give it a go and ring it, and he answered it - it was crazy.
“Ray’s last film was released in 1981,” John explains. “Around the time he stopped working, his type of animation was falling out of favour - people just weren’t doing stop motion back then. “A lot of what will be on display will be test footage, sketches and some models that were all created to show the movie studios what they could expect if they greenlit a project. When Ray was working, studio executives were not that literate when it came to visual effects - you’d have to physically make something to show them what it could look like.”
“Stan Lee also asked him to work on an X-Men movie in the 1980s that would have been phenomenal. It would have just so suited his wonderful style. But Ray wouldn’t have been the producer and he was always reluctant to take on projects where he wasn’t fully involved.
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