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Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past
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Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past

May 4, 1923
0h 5m
★ 6.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Fantasy
Documentary
Animation

Production Companies

Pathé Exchange

Cast

Virginia May

Sculptress

Virginia May

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