The 7th voyage of sinbad
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“the 7th voyage of sinbad” was the first film that saw the use of the word dynamation. this was an invention of charles schneer but it became the word that ...
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Ray Harryhausen was always very proud of what has now become a landmark film, as indeed was Charles Schneer, the film’s pro-ducer. It was this movie that saw an end (much to Ray’s delight) to a series of black and white monster movies and sent model stop-motion animation in a new direction. Ray had wanted to show what his style of visual effects could really achieve other than depicting dinosaurs and other creatures tak-ing cities apart in the US and Europe. He al-ways felt that there were other, more excit-ing avenues to explore and that legends and mythology were the way to go. The project all started with the idea of ani-mating a ‘living’ skeleton. That had been a dream of his since he began stop-motion model animation. It was inspired by Disney’s “Skeleton Dance” (1928-29) which Ray saw at a picture house when only 9 years old. Like Willis O’Brien’s “The Lost World” (1925) it made a huge impression on him. What if he animated a ‘living’ skeleton to fight a human actor? Now that wou...