Name: Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past
Genre: Fantasy, Documentary, Animation
Released: 1923-05-04
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Virginia May

Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past Poster

FantasyDocumentaryAnimation

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.