If his name doesn't ring a bell, his work does. He's perhaps best known for his stop-motion animation techniques, particularly in the famous skeleton fight sequence from 1963's "Jason in the Argonauts ...

Even if you've never even heard of Don Chaffey's Jason and the Argonauts, you've probably seen at least one of the film's stunning visual-effects sequences. The skeleton battle found at the end of the ...

A skeleton wielding a sword is supposed to be scary. It was scary in 1963 when special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen created a whole army of them in Jason and the Argonauts. How do you kill ...

The visual effects pioneer, Ray Harryhausen, thrilled and terrified generations with his animated creations. One of his most known scenes is the skeletons fight in Jason and the Argonauts (1963) film.

Stop-motion is now something of a lost art, but for a number of decades, it stunned audiences by bringing fantastical creatures to life in a way they had never seen before. For instance, the scene in ...

Ray Harryhausen with a skeleton model from Jason and the Argonauts. National Galleries of Scotland. It’s the early 1980s and I’m about ten years old. On the TV is a fantasy movie replete with swords ...

Back in the 1950s and early '60s, there flourished a cinematic genre now sometimes called sword-and-sandal. Loosely speaking, this category included B-movies featuring Steve Reeves as Hercules, mighty ...

Next to the original Clash of the Titans, 1963’s Jason and the Argonauts is my second favorite film in the long line of Ray Harryhausen classics. Why? Two words, baby: skeleton warriors. And not just ...