{"id":3283,"date":"2024-06-29T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2024-08-17T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T11:02:02","slug":"happy-birthday-ray-harryhausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/06\/happy-birthday-ray-harryhausen\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to stop-motion animation pioneer and filmmaking legend Ray Harryhausen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">June 29, 1920 &#8211; May 7, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Raymond Frederick Harryhausen is the one name that, perhaps more than any other, personifies movie magic. His pioneering work as a visual effects creator included such inspiring classics as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) Clash of the Titans (1981), and the 1969 CDF fan favorite \u2013 THE VALLEY OF GWANGI!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1862\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ray-Harryhausen_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Harryhausen photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ray-Harryhausen_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ray-Harryhausen_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ray-Harryhausen_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ray-Harryhausen_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ray-Harryhausen_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29, 1920 &#8211; May 7, 2013 Raymond Frederick Harryhausen is the one name that, perhaps more than any other, personifies movie magic. His pioneering work as a visual effects creator included such inspiring classics as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sinbad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,7,337,5,46,546,51,49,545,50],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-clashofthetitans","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-dinosaur","tag-dynamation","tag-gwangi","tag-rayharryhausen","tag-sinbad","tag-valleyofgwangi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ray-Harryhausen_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}