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World Service,24 Mar 1999,4 mins

Pioneering Movie Special Effects

My Century

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Ray Harryhausen was one of the pioneers of special effects used in movies. The man who brought animated dinosaurs to our screens remembers the film that first inspired him - King Kong. He began by using a 16mm camera in his father's garage and went on to develop an animation technique known as dynamation, used in films such as Jason and the Argonauts.

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