Collectables
Those items listed below are currently available. We are working on a wider range of unique top quality collectables, that have been approved by Ray and The Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation.
BOOKS
So far there have been five books written and compiled by Ray and/or Tony Dalton. The first An Animated Life is now published in a revised edition as a paperback, The Art of Ray Harryhausen is soon to be published as a paperback and A Century of Model Animation is only available as a hardback edition.
All of these books can be purchased in all good bookshops and online. See Useful Links.
In addition to those books the Foundation has now published a soft cover special limited edition book called Ray Harryhausen - A Life in Pictures. This book will be available in three locations in London - The London Film Museum, The BFI Southbank (The National Film Theatre) and The Cinema Store. See Useful Links.
All proceeds from this unique book will go towards the preservation and restoration of models.
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Ray Harryhausen - A Life in PicturesRay Harryhausen - A Life in Pictures has now sold over 1300 copies, amazing because we have only sold through a selected number of UK outlets. This means that as the print run was only 2000 that there are only less than 700 copies left. When the remaining copies stand at 200, the price will rise to £40 each and when the copies stand at 100 copies left, the price will be £50. If you don't have a copy then get in now because this book will never ever be published again. Really.
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Sir Christopher Frayling and John Landis holding one of the first copies of the book at Ray's 90th celebrations at the National Film Theatre in London. Photo by Mark Mawston
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AN ANIMATED LIFE
The definitive biography of Ray's life and career with over 1000 black and white and colour images. It also includes a full filmography and Index. Foreword by Ray Bradbury.
Paperback only
THE ART OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN
Ray's unique and specialised art executed throughout his life. This also includes influences on his work and style. Foreword by Peter Jackson.
Hardback
THE ART OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN
Paperback edition
A CENTURY OF MODEL ANIMATION
A history of dimensional stop-motion animation from Melies to Aardman which also includes techniques used by Ray in his work. Foreword by Randy Cook, Peter Lord and James Gurney.
Hardback only
[in the US this is titled A CENTURY OF STOP-MOTION ANIMATION]
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RAY HARRYHAUSEN'S FANTASY SCRAPBOOKThis latest and last volume is not a rewrite of Ray's 1972 book Film Fantasy Scrapbook, but a totally new layout incorporating never-before-seen models, miniatures, black and white and colour images, artwork and papers relating to his early experiments, his 16 features and unrealised projects. Foreword by John Landis. It has now been published in the UK. The book is only available in the UK at this time and will not regrettably be published in the US until March 2012. However for those people outside the UK copies can be obtained through amazon. Buy it now.
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The back cover of the new book showing Ray sitting at his desk in his London study with some of his collection. |
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Ray Harryhausen and Tony Dalton recommend Neil Pettigrew's The Stop-Motion FilmographyThis is a huge (850 pages!), exhaustive survey of all feature films that contain stop-motion puppet animation. All the films of Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien are discussed in detail, as well as many with animation sequences by Jim Danforth, Phil Tippett, David Allen, Karel Zeman and others. There are 32 pages of colour stills, plus numerous black and white stills. A series of appendices provide filmographies for 47 stop-motion animators, 'top ten lists' of favourite animation sequences compiled by the animators themselves, a price guide to collecting stop-motion film posters, and much more. Available from the publishers (McFarland & Co Inc), Amazon and and other premiere book stores.
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FABRICS
Two exclusive Ray Harryhausen fabric designs by the world famous department store Liberty's in London. They are based on drawings done by Ray and are called 'Harryhausen Valley' and 'Achelon Ray' and are available in a variety of colours although here we have only reproduced two examples. For more information on the launch of these fabrics see News & Events and Useful Links.
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BRONZES
From the hand of the stop motion master Ray Harryhausen, comes PREHISTORIC CHALLENGE, a limited edition bronze.
The Prehistoric Challenge bronze was inspired by Ray’s love of all things dinosaur. While anyone seeing it is immediately reminded of Ray’s one film for Hammer Films, One Million Years BC, this sculpture represents a different theme! This is Ray’s fantasy version of the prehistoric world where a Cro-Magnon man protects his mate from the jaws of a cerotosaurus!
Prehistoric Challenge is limited to 60 castings. The solid bronze casting, set on green marble, measures 5 ½” high by 6 ¼” deep and 9 ½ wide and weighs approximately 15 lbs. Interested parties can email gravenimaginings@yahoo.com for purchase details.
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OTHER COLLECTABLES
Postcards and Posters-
A set of 10 Harryhausen artworks and models of high quality postcards are available from The London Film Museum (see Useful Links). The cost of these will be £1 each, 4 for £3 and a full set of 10 for £7.
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Also available from The London Film Museum is a high quality, signed (reproduction signature) poster of Ray sitting in Calibos' throne surrounded by his creations. The cost of this is £10 Size: A1 (841 x 594 mm or 33.1 x 23.4 inches)
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DVD and Blu-ray
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To purchase in the UK: www.amazon.co.uk To purchase in the US: www.amazon.com
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Recommended by Ray. At long last the Blu-ray disc of Jason and the Argonauts is available worldwide. This edition is newly restored by Sony and includes commentaries from Ray himself in conversation with Tony Dalton as well as Peter Jackson and Randy Cook. Also there are, for the first time, the full storyboards for the skeleton fight, which include those scenes that were cut.
If you think you have seen Jason and the Argonauts before, this version of the Harryhausen classic will make you feel as though you were in the cinema watching it for the first time. Ray and Tony Dalton won the prestigious Rondo Hatton internet award for their commentary on this most famous of all Ray's movies.
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