• to Willis O'Brien. Willis H. O'Brien at IMDb "Willis H. O'Brien: special effects pioneer" (Additional information and photos) "Willis H. O'Brien: stop-motion...
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    in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis H. O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen. Some critics, such as Tim Lucas and Alan Upchurch...
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    include the animation for Mighty Joe Young (1949) with his mentor Willis H. O'Brien (for which the latter won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects);...
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    Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien and music by Max Steiner. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures...
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    opening during the Great Depression. The film's stop motion effects by Willis H. O'Brien revolutionized special effects, leaving a lasting impact on the film...
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    British-American monster film directed by Eugène Lourié, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien, Pete Peterson, Irving Block, Jack Rabin, and Louis de Witt. The film...
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  • is a 1915 American comedy silent film animated with stop motion by Willis O'Brien. The film was distributed by Thomas Edison's film company Conquest Pictures...
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  • Football League running back Willis H. O'Brien (1886–1962), Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist Willis Peguese (born 1966), American...
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    stop-motion animation pioneer, best remembered for his work with Willis H. O'Brien on Mighty Joe Young (1949), The Black Scorpion (1957) and The Giant...
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    Lost World were animated by pioneering stop motion techniques by Willis H. O'Brien, who would some years later animate the giant gorilla-like creature...
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    as seen in films, Jason and the Argonauts (1963), and the work of Willis H. O'Brien on films, King Kong (1933). Go motion A variant of model animation...
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  • Ghidorah (Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster) King Kong (King Kong) - Willis H. O'Brien (Andy Serkis in the 2005 remake) John Kramer a.k.a. Jigsaw (Saw franchise)...
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  • wife Kurt Neumann (1908–1958), motion picture director and producer Willis H. O'Brien (1886–1962), filmmaker Vivien Oakland (1895–1958), actress Philip...
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    brainchild, brought to life by the astonishing special effects work of Willis H. O'Brien. In 1933 he returned to MGM where his father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer...
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  • The Valley of Gwangi (category Films produced by Charles H. Schneer)
    the film project from his mentor Willis O'Brien, responsible for the effects in the original King Kong (1933). O'Brien had planned to make The Valley of...
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  • various Willis H. O'Brien (1886–1962), American motion picture special effects pioneer Zach O'Brien, professional ice hockey player O'Brien Alston (b...
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    Mountain is a 1918 film written and directed by special effects pioneer Willis O'Brien, produced by Herbert M. Dawley, and starring both men. It is the first...
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    Nakajima as Baragon In the early 1960s, special effects technician Willis H. O'Brien (who provided the stop motion animation for the 1933 film King Kong)...
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    special effect, or stop motion animation in general.[citation needed] Willis H. O'Brien had previously, in 1918, worked on a film called The Ghost of Slumber...
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    effects artist Willis H. O’Brien wanted to make a film where King Kong fights a monster created by Dr. Frankenstein. In the early 1960s, O’Brien handed his...
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  • Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1971) March 2 Willis H. O'Brien, American stop motion animator (d. 1962) Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football...
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    "relief house". Later special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer Willis H. O'Brien was a sports cartoonist for the paper in the 1910s. In 1919 the newspaper...
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  • Scheider: A Film Biography. McFarland. p. 209. ISBN 9781476609034. "Bruce Willis to Star in Oliver Stone's Pinkville". MovieWeb. August 28, 2007. Archived...
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    puppets pioneer who started with dead beetles, later expressive puppets Willis H. O'Brien 1886-1962 United States King Kong (1933) 1915-1962 models pioneer...
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    the work done on Mighty Joe Young (1949), and when they won, it was Willis H. O'Brien who went on stage to accept the statue. In 1964, it was given only...
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  • release. Footage of dinosaurs in the film are recycled from the 1918 Willis H. O'Brien's film The Ghost of Slumber Mountain. Paul is a European who served...
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  • XII (d. 1958) 1880 – René Vallon, French aviator (d. 1911) 1886 – Willis H. O'Brien, American animator and director (d. 1962) 1886 – Kurt Grelling, German...
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    not as elaborate as the stop motion techniques by effects pioneers Willis H. O'Brien (creator of the effects in King Kong) and Ray Harryhausen (creator...
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  • Freleng's Daffy Duck short Ain't That Ducky), dies at age 86. November 8: Willis H. O'Brien, American special effects artist and animator (The Lost World, King...
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    of the earliest stop motion animation by special effects pioneer Willis H. O'Brien who refined the technique for the 1925 film The Lost World. The original...
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