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Most everyone who knows me knows this: When I was young I rarely watched children’s movies. My dad would often rent videos for us (remember renting movies?). He worked near a movie rental store called “The Movie Shack” (remember video rental stores that were not Blockbuster?) and 90% of the time instead of renting Lady and the Tramp or one of those stupid Fievel movies he would pick up a collection of Three Stooges shorts or–if we were lucky– a terrible monster movie from the fifties.

This is what I believe led me to love stop motion animation. I still have a collection of stop motion movies and old monster movies that I watch. Ray Harryhausen is the master of the genre and this video shows why.

The bees from Mysterious Island still give me the willies.

I saw this video about fifteen years ago and remember being fascinated by the attention to detail that Walt Disney was so obviously obsessed with. A person who saw it with me snorted: “So he thought of creativity as being creative technically.” That never rang true with me. Creativity and technical skill don’t oppose one another, they work together.

Via Daring Fireball.

Portraits of Star Wars characters.

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Movies about alcoholics are a dime a dozen. But then there’s Harvey. A movie released in 1950 concerning a fellow who sees a giant invisible rabbit named Harvey. It’s a silly movie, it’s corny and funny. Of course, the major question is are Elwood’s hallucinations booze induced or is he simply crazy.

“No one brings anything small into a bar.” In all of the silliness, there is this scene.