***** ONE MILLION YEAR OLD SPOILERS!! ***** A Dabba Doo Time. When I was a little kid, I was a card-carrying dinosaur nut. As early as I can remember, the names of the dinosaurs would rattle off my tongue; diplodocus, brontosaurus, triceratops, brachiosaurus, tyrannosaurus rex, allosaurus, etc. I had many dinosaur books and toys as…
Tag: stop-motion
Retro-Musings: “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963) is still sea-worthy today…
Waaaay back in my childhood back in the 1970s and 1980s, I was a huge fan of the stop-motion animated films of cinematic FX maestro Ray Harryhausen. Harryhausen was, from the 1950s through the mid-1970s, a one man “Industrial Light & Magic.” Usually working without assistance, Harryhausen would build his armatured puppets and carefully shift…