Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life

Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life is a British documentary for made by John Walsh when he was a student at the London Film School. Its subject was the art and animation of Ray Harryhausen. The film looks at the stop motion animation process employed by Ray Harryhausen focusing on the creatures from his 1981 film Clash of the Titans. The voice-over was provided by Doctor Who actor Tom Baker, who had won the main role after series producer Barry Letts saw him in the Harryhausen film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in 1973.[1]

Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life
Promotional poster for Ray Harryhausen: Movement Into Life
Directed byJohn Walsh
Narrated byTom Baker
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerJohn Walsh
Running time15 minutes
Production companyLondon Film School
DistributorWalsh Bros Ltd.
Release
Original release1990 (1990)

Screenings

The film received its first commercial screening at Greenwich Cinema in March 1990.[2] The event was presented on stage with a Q&A session from Ray Harryhausen hosted by broadcaster and writer Richard Holliss.

The film was screened as part of an event on Ray Harryhausen at the Manchester Animation Festival in 2016 now remastered in HD and with stereo sound for the first time. John Walsh took questions from the audience after the screening.[3]

As part of a Harryhausen’s Lost Treasures event the film was screened at the multimedia venue HOME (Manchester).[4]

Friday 1 July 2016 a screening was held at the Cinema Museum (London) Walsh discussed the "phone call in the late 1980s led to a twenty-five-year friendship." [5]

On 2 October 2016 Walsh gave a talk at with a screening at Canterbury Christ Church University as part their animation festival, Anifest.[6]

On 28 October 2017 Walsh gave a lecture to animation students at Staffordshire University.[7]

At MCM London Comic Con in May 2017 Walsh gave a talk for The Barbican exhibition of science fiction titled 'Into the Unknown' on Ray Harryhausen.[8]

Cineworld Aberdeen screened the film on 29 June 2017 after a 60th-anniversary screening of a colourised version of 20 Million Miles to Earth [9]

BFI screening on 26 August 2018 alongside another rarely seen interview with Ray. This coincides with a new book about the posters from Harryhausen's films.[10]

San Diego Comic-Con showed the film as part of a panel by John Walsh entitled 'Ray Harryhausen The Return of the Special Effects Godfather' on 20 July 2018.[11]

In Other Media

Extracts from the film were chosen by Rolex for their commercial campaign for the new Rolex Sea Dweller featuring film director James Cameron [12]

References
  1. Turbervill, Huw (4 November 2013). "Tom Baker interview: 'Doctor Who fans saw me as a Messiah'". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  2. "The Greenwich Visitor August 2016". content.yudu.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. "Harryhausen's Lost Treasures | Manchester Animation Festival". Manchester Animation Festival. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  4. "Harryhausen's Lost Treasures - HOME". HOME. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  5. "Ray Harryhausen and Me… » The Cinema Museum, London". The Cinema Museum, London. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  6. http://www.skwigly.co.uk/canterbury-anifest-2016/, Skwigly
  7. http://www.staffs.ac.uk/assets/catalogue_show-and-tell-2017.pdf
  8. "Barbican Presents Sci-fi Talks at MCM London Comic Con – SEEN London". seenlondon.com. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  9. "Brown Paper Tickets". m.bpt.me. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  10. "Ray Harryhausen". BFI. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
  11. https://comiccon2018.sched.com/event/FSmV/ray-harryhausen-the-return-of-the-special-effects-godfather
  12. https://www.rolex.org/arts/cinema/james-cameron
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