Pete Peterson (animator)

Pete Peterson (September 30, 1903 - February 24, 1962) was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, best remembered for his work with Willis H. O'Brien on Mighty Joe Young (1949), The Black Scorpion (1957) and The Giant Behemoth (1959).
Biography
His name was : Svend Aage Pedersen born 30SEP1903 in Denmark died 24FEB1962. He change the name in 1945 to Peter Peterson (search on Acnestry.com or Facebook = Pete Peterson)) Pete Peterson worked as a grip at RKO studios in Hollywood in the 1940s and was assigned to work on Mighty Joe Young (1949) lighting the miniature sets where technical creator Willis H. O'Brien and his first technician Ray Harryhausen were creating the stop-motion to animate the title character. Peterson became fascinated with the process and experimented at home in his spare time by placing tape on people’s arms and legs to gauge movement and recording the results to better...