Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past
Sculptress Virginia May is seen making a clay model of a tyrannosaurus rex, which is animated using stop motion, and then fights a stop-motion triceratops. Although Miss May's only known relationship with the movies is this particular short, her contemporary, Willis O'Brien and his student Ray Harryhausen certainly made the field a lively one until computer animation caught up in the 1990s -- and arguably their artistry is still unsurpassed.
- Year: 1923
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Fantasy, Documentary, Animation
- Studio: Pathé Exchange
- Keyword: stop motion, dinosaur, silent film, claymation
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- Cast: Virginia May