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[Bud Brewster]

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Here we have two posts which discuss stop motion and one which comments on a potential reboot of Forbidden Planet — something which none of use really wants. Right?
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20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Maybe I'm wrong, but I suspect the writer of TV Guide article was keenly aware that the general public had no idea how either King Kong or the Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer special was created, and he wanted to educate his poor, clueless readers.

Frankly I wouldn't have my own keen appreciation for stop motion if I hadn't spent many hours trying to use clay models to make a few 8mm films in the 1960s.




~ Click on the image to see my animation video, with the scene shown above appearing at the 3:55 mark.

I'm sure the TV guide author understood that he was explaining a time-honored technique to a brand new generation . . . who knew nothing about it several decades after it was invented.
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The Lost World (1925)

IMDB has 21 trivia items for this movie. Here’s a few of the ones I found the most interesting, in the blue text.
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~ The dinosaur miniatures were donated to the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. After many years the rubber models began to sulphurize and disintegrate. They were stored away and inadvertently sealed between the walls of the facility when a new wing was added.

Note from me: The Lost Dinosaurs from The Lost World. Weird, eh?

~ While filming one of the stop-motion scenes, the cameraman spotted a pair of pliers in the picture. So as not to draw attention to them by having them suddenly disappear, he moved them a little at a time until they were out of the shot.

Note from me: I'd have to see this to believe it. A moving pair pliers would attract a lot more attention than one that appeared and disappeared in just a few frames. And even if it was in view for— say — five minutes, the fact that it suddenly started creeping along like a snail would insure that everybody would notice it!

Add to this the fact that there's a post in the King Kong section of the Classic Horror Film Board that comments on an alleged pair of pliers which were used as part of a stop motion model.

The first post in our own King Kong thread includes a few quotes from that discussion.