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Ray Harryhausen animated monsters against live plates

His Dynamation split the frame so models could sit inside live footage Ray Harryhausen shot stop motion models in front of a screen that masked part of the frame, then combined that footage with live action shot separately, a process he branded Dynamation. The masks let a skeleton or a giant appear to move among real actors. He animated every frame himself for films such as Jason and the Argonauts. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: His Dynamation split the frame so models could sit inside live footage. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.