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4.0 out of 5 stars
Valuable work about a neglected artist,
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This review is from: Willis O'Brien: Special Effects Genius (McFarland classics) (Paperback)
If I have any criticism of this work it is that it is not long enough... I thoroughly enjoyed it, and use it as a reference work frequently. I feel that Archer captures Willis O'Brien's unique personality. He was a multitalented person indeed. The interviews with his widow Darlyne O'Brien were very interesting and very valuable since I suspect that few researchers ever took the time to interview her about her husband and his marvelous inventions that improved motion picture technology substantially. He won an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement; this book by McFarland includes storyboards and synopses of television programs and films "Obie" would have loved to have made, if only he could have found the right producers. any one of them would have been a classic. O'Brien was grievously mistreated and neglected by the motion picture industry and his work ripped off too often; a case in this book is the King Kong Versus Godzilla film that was stolen from a treatment he had submitted and later made into a film by Toho.
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Willis O'Brien: Special Effects Genius by Steve Archer (Hardcover - June 1993)
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