Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past

May. 04,1923

Rating：

5.4

Genre：

Fantasy Animation Documentary

Keywords：

Silent Film Stop Motion Dinosaur

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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. (IMDb)

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