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Willis O'Brien
Willis O'Brien is an American editor who was born on the 2nd March 1886 in Oakland, California, USA. He started his work in Hollywood as a animator for films but his big break did not come until 1933, where he probably did his best work. O'Brien did the special effects work on the set of King Kong. At the time this type of technical brilliance has never been seen before. In the years after Kong O'Brien only other notable piece of work was chief animator on the set of Mighty Joe Young. In 1950 his work was finally recognized as he won an Oscar for best animator, this as well as his work on the set of King Kong was considered among the best of his achievements.

Ray Harryhausen,
Born in Los Angeles, the main event in his early life was when he saw King Kong in 1933. He was so amazed  that the then 13-year-old Harryhausen that he began researching the film's effects work, ultimately learning all he could about Willis H. O'Brien and stop-motion photography. However he wouldn't actually work with the famous animator until 1949 where he was on the set of Mighty Joe young, Although O'Brien received credit for it, it was reported that Harryhausen did 85% of the actual animation. Harryhausen usually worked alone on his films, so this would reportedly take a long time to do. The most famous example was probably his best work, Jason and the Argonauts which took the animator 2 years to do, he reportedly sot 13 frames a day, that's about a second a day.

Jan Švankmajer
There was nothing to tell in Jan early life apart from that he graduated from the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Svankmajer then began working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with film-making after becoming involved with the mixed-media productions of Prague's Lanterna Magika Theatre. He began making short films in 1964, and continued working in the same medium for over twenty years, when he finally achieved his long-held ambition to make a feature film based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.