 
                                    
                                 
                            Pathé Review: Monsters of the Past (1923)
                                    
                                    1923-05-04
                                    United States of America
                                    5 Min.
                                    PG-13
                                
                                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.
 
                    


 
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                     
                                    