Tyrannosaurus Rex
by Ray Bradbury
We could have told special effects meister John Terwilliger that the only way to get a
truly monstrous T. rex on film is to build a time machine, but alas, he relied
solely on stop-motion animation with no time travel, and look at the abuse he gets for
his efforts from the renowned producer Joe Clarence.
— Michael Main
Step by step, frame by frame of film, stop motion by stop motion, he, Terwilliger, had
run his beasts through their postures, moved each a fraction of an inch, photographed
them, moved them another hair, photographed them, for hours and days and months.
“The Prehistoric Producer” by Ray Bradbury, in The Saturday Evening Post, 23 June 1962.