Ray Harryhausen once spent four months alone in a sweltering studio moving seven articulated skeletons a millimeter at a time to produce a few minutes of screen action. This episode follows the Los Angeles teenager who saw King Kong in 1933, lugged a suitcase of homemade dinosaurs to animator Willis O'Brien, and was told bluntly to go study anatomy before he tried again.

The conversation traces his wartime work animating training films alongside Frank Capra and Ted Geisel, his apprenticeship on Mighty Joe Young, and the invention of Dynamation on The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. It then covers his 26-year partnership with producer Charles H. Schneer across twelve films, including The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and Clash of the Titans, the union rules that kept him out of the director's chair, the cultural shift of the late ...