- The
Film 100 list has Willis O'Brien as number 75 in the top 100 most influential
people in the history of cinema.
- Willis O'Brien's favorite
Irish Stew.
- David
Allen talks about his recreation of O'Brien's King Kong from a PBS
special.
- Tom Flynn discusses the problem of motion blur (or the lack of it)
using stop-motion in The
Curse Of Clarity.
- A
Brief History of Stop-Motion Animation From the Walt Disney James
And The Giant Peach homepage.
- An Effort to restore missing footage to The
Lost World.
- Stop-Motion Central features the work of Willis O'Brien and other well-known animators.
- Jim Rodkey's fantastic The Fantastic Films of Ray Harryhausen
- The Unnatural Museum has a page on King Kong that explains O'Brien's use of
rear-projection in his work an another on the use of
Stop-Motion Photography.
- For a useful Bibliography of Willis O'Brien's work see The King Kong FAQ
Credits Poster images are courtesy of:
The Cabinet Of Dr.Casey
Biographical links provided by:
The Internet Movie Database
Photographs and reviews by:
The Fantastic Films Of Ray Harryhausen
Kong model photographs courtesy of:
Forrest J Ackerman's Wide Webbed World
