Claudia Massie

The genius of stop-motion wizard Ray Harryhausen

Few artists of the 20th century can compete with Harryhausen's illusive brilliance or reach

Few artists of the 20th century can compete with Harryhausen’s brilliance and reach: skeleton models from Jason and the Argonauts, c. 1962. Credit: © The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation Photography: Sam Drake (National Galleries of Scotland) 
issue 24 October 2020

Modern Two in Edinburgh reopens this week, and what more fitting subject for a show in a time of global catastrophe than Ray Harryhausen, titan of cinema, creator of beasts, destroyer of cities, king of adventure?

If you were near a screen at any point during the Cold War, you almost certainly watched Harryhausen movies.

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