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Exhibition Tours: 3. Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema – The Exhibition

Exclusive preview of the special effects guru’s postponed exhibition in Edinburgh

An exclusive preview of the National Galleries of Scotland exhibition, marking 100 years since Ray Harryhausen’s birth.

The film special effects superstar is credited with elevating stop motion animation into an artform. His innovative and inspiring filming, from the 1950s onwards, changed the face of modern movie-making forever.

We see personal objects on show for the first time, alongside painstakingly restored original models not on display for many years.

The preview includes interviews with Ray’s daughter Vanessa Harryhausen, actors Caroline Munro and Martine Beswick; and also shows how Harryhausen’s new techniques influenced a whole generation of film makers. We look at Harryhausen’s early influences and how these inspired films like ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ and how his anatomically correct miniature models were turned into towering giants on screen.

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