The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin, who had a long career directing movies such as Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) and the television series Knots Landing in the late 1970s and early 1990s. George Pál was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest grossing movies of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional Academy Awards. Several famous actors, including Laurence Harvey (The Manchurian Candidate), Jim Backus, Barbara Eden, and Buddy Hackett, are in the movie, and it uses a rarely found feature in filming wherein an overlay of two separate screens was utilized to produce various effects. For example, the scene with the dragon seems more realistic since the creature appears to be directly over the characters instead of in the background on a giant screen as was typically done. The story focuses on the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob, and is... full article at wikipedia