A Brief History of Movie Flying Saucers

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 1956
The groundbreaking flying-saucer effects for this cult classic were created by Ray Harryhausen, famous for his stop-motion animation in films such as Mighty Joe Young, a 1949 Academy Award winner for special effects, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts.

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