Major Herbert M. Dawley, An Artist's Life: Dinosaurs, Movies, Show-Biz, & Pierce-Arrow Automobiles Softcover Book

Major Herbert M. Dawley, An Artist's Life: Dinosaurs, Movies, Show-Biz, & Pierce-Arrow Automobiles Softcover Book:  

Major Herbert M. Dawley (1880-1970) was a true “Renaissance Man” in the creative arts: Painter, Sculptor, Inventor and Engineer for the Pierce-Arrow Motorcar Company, Photographer, Theater and Film Producer/Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Puppeteer, Author, and Animator. In addition to directing over 400 plays, his work in motion pictures resulted in a series of silent era live action films for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a series of religious films, along with 35+ silhouette animation short subjects. Significantly, Dawley was an innovator of stop-motion model animation and his landmark silent films, The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918) and Along the Moonbeam Trail (1921) paved the way for giants in the field such as Willis O’Brien (King Kong) and Ray Harryhausen (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad). Dinosaur sculptor, animator, and paleontologist Stephen Czerkas spe...