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Nigel Price nigelaprice at talktalk.net
Mon Nov 3 15:00:41 PST 2008


Weird but true: Gerry Anderson and Ray Harryhausen were both speakers at the
1987 WorldCon in Brighton, England, which Gene and Rosemary Wolfe also
attended.

Did Wolfe hear Gerry Anderson talk about his work?

Then again, for anyone interested in creating submarine squid deities,
Harryhausen's amusing account of animating the six-limbed giant octopus in
"It came from beneath the sea" might well have been inspirational. (The
octopus only had six limbs because Harryhausen was on a tight budget and an
even tighter timetable. Animating extra limbs takes time, and time is
money!)

Nigel (who is trying to write a serious analysis of AEG - coming soon - but
keeps getting distracted by whimsical notions)




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