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...After teaming up with special-effects genius Ray Harryhausen in the 1950s, film producer Charles Schneer, 88, went on to create a dozen science-fiction and fantasy favorites such as Clash of the Titans and the Sinbad trilogy...
...Harryhausen and his longtime partner, producer Charles Schneer, moved to England (cheaper production costs, the same reason "Star Wars" avoided California) and began working in color, making films that didn't even mention atomic testing and found their sources in myth or literature. Ray was on a roll, making money with his new color process (Dynamation) and paired with the greatest film composer who ever raised a baton, Bernard Herrmann. First came "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad," followed by "The Three Worlds of Gulliver," then "Mysterious Island," and finally the stop-frame masterpiece, "Jason and the Argonauts...
George Mostow (Mathematics), Henry Pierre Noyes (Physics), Harold Pilvin (Economics), Louis Heilprin Pollak (History and Literature), Harald Anton Reiche (Classics), Cecil Jack Schneer (Geological Sciences), Harold Wondell Smith (English), William Snower, Jr. (Government), William Firth Snyder (Economics), Richard David Solo (Economics), Howard Marget Spiro (English), Ruch Eastman Welter (History and Literature...
...relaying on restraint and carefully prepared surprise for their effects. Thomas accomplishes the feat of writing a fantasy in a realistic style. A too conscious attempt at atmosphere occasionally swamps Albert Friedman's "Carnival," while David Hessey's "Launching" sacrifices a powerful theme to occasionally slip-shod treatment. Cecil Schneer makes a heroic attempt to get inside a converted isolationist by reducing him through pain to his Freudian common denominator...
Heading the group of stories is Cecil Schneer's "Two Episodes," a pair of sharply drawn sketches of individuals in crisis. The first, dealing with the bombing of an Hawaiian volcano, has a more unique interest than its commoner companion piece, but both display mature style and original talent of which the reader may hope to see more. Norman Mailer's "Maybe Next Year" is in the nature of an experiment in objective subjectivity. Told through the mouth of a small child, this tale of a split home remains brutally objective and its technique is never really in keeping with...