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The lovers of the cinema are very happy with the exhibition dedicated to Ray Harryhausen: creator of monsters, that there will be opened in the Foundation Luis Seoane, of the city of the Corunna, until January 10, 2010.
This exhibition does an exceptional tour for the work of one of the technical personnel of more famous special effects of the history of the cinema: the North American Ray Harryhausen that got the prize Oscar Honorific for all his work.

The exhibition shows almost hundred pieces, between original models, sketches, photographies, unpublished animations, montages of videoes and cartels.
Alberto Ruíz de Samaniego, the director of the Foundation Luis Seoane, expresses that Ray Harryhausen is a fundamental modal to enjoy the cinematographic kind of adventures and fantasies.
The exhibition, which commissioner is Asier Mensuro, possesses also an important section of documentation and research of Harryhausen's relation the Spanish cinema, in which there includes unpublished material belonging to the files of the designers  Luis Gasca, Gil Parrondo and Fernando Gómez, that they collaborated in different moments with the North American technician.

Harryhausen took part in 16 movies, of which 7 were filmed in Spain.
Nowadays he lives in London.

Ray Harryhausen (born Raymond Frederick Harryhausen on June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film producer and a special effects creator most famous for his brand of stop-motion model animation. Some of his most notable works have included his animation on Mighty Joe Young (with pioneer Willis O'Brien, which won the Academy Award for special effects) (1949), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (his first color film) and Jason and the Argonauts, featuring a famous sword fight against seven skeleton warriors.