Today's morning fright film. New to me. Not significantly different from the version of this story you find in Kwaidan, but for the score by Akira Ifukube. Short, too, which is gratifying because they don't pad things to a longer length.
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![History
In the 1920s, Ladislas Starevich started using this technique by the time he started making films in France. He moved the puppet or the set during the exposure of the frame to create motion blur.[2] Some of this can be seen in films like The Midnight Wedding, Love in Black and White, The Voice of the Nightingale or The Little Parade and more extensively in the battle scene of The Queen of the Butterflies (1924) and The Mascot (1933).
Phil Tippett and Industrial Light & Magic later recreated the go motion technique for some shots of the tauntaun creatures and AT-AT walkers in the 1980 Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back.[3] After that, go motion was used for many other movies: for the dragon in Dragonslayer (1981),[4] the dinosaurs in the prehistoric documentaries Prehistoric Beast (1984)[5] and Dinosaur! (1985), the wings of the harpies in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985),[6] the lord demon creature in Howard the Duck (1986), the winged demon in The Golden Child (1986), the extraterrestrial living flying machines in Batteries Not Included (1987), and the two-headed Eborsisk dragon in Willow (1988). The last film using go motion was Coneheads (1993).[2] Other minor sequences using go motion appeared in films like the first three Indiana Jones installments (1981–1989) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
With the completion of Jurassic Park (1993), Tippett Studio abandoned go motion and fully converted its teams and equipment to CG computer-graphics.[7]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lgknf4z7xjoczvhaoxt6rlwf/bafkreiaolomrzru6cxags7uy7dxmxqocd5zecjww4g4knrza2mdk6avcby)
