Word: schneer
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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...