20 Million Miles to Earth (Colorized)

Pesonally supervised by Ray, with colorization by Legend Films, this 2-disc Special Edition includes a restored b&w version. The color is superb; like nothing you've every seen in a colorized film.

Bonus material on this 2-disc collection includes: Tim Burtons Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen, Remembering 20 Million Miles to Earth, The Colorization Process and much, much more.

Ray has also signed a limited number of DVD covers which are available from Every Picture Tells a Story.

Furthermore, a Blu-Ray edition will be available in late 2007.

Ask for it at your local retailer or go online at Amazon.com.

In the 1960s, the world is delighted when astronauts land on the moon. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria. On Earth, a now aged Arnold Bedford tells the story of how he, and his girlfriend, meet inventor, Joseph Cavor in 1899. Cavor has invented Cavorite, a paste that allows anything to deflect gravity. Furthermore, he created a spacecraft painted with the paste. Together, they fly to the moon where, to their total amazement, they discover the Selenites: an insect-like population who take a unhealthy interest in their Earthly visitors.

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .

Dr. Russell Marvin heads up Operation Skyhook, which is tasked with sending rockets into the upper atmosphere to probe for future space flights. Unfortunately, all the rockets are somehow disappearing. While investigating this strange occurrence, Russell and his new assistant/wife Carol Marvin are abducted by a flying saucer. The aliens claim to be from Mars and demand to meet with Certain people in order to negotiate. But it was a trick, the Martains only wanted to kill them. The invasion has begun and if Russell and Carol can't find a way to stop these creatures and get past their defenses, it may be the end of the human race.

The first spaceship to visit Venus returns to earth and crash lands in the sea, freeing a small native Venusian creature called the Ymir. Eventually growing to enormous size, it threatens the city of Rome.

When a giant octopus attacks San Francisco, a pair of scientists and a nuclear sub captain try to stop it before it tears down the Golden Gate Bridge.

Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognize him as the man who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel to Colchis to find the Golden Fleece. Jason follows his advice and assembles a sailing crew of the finest men in Greece, including Hercules. They are under the protection of Hera, queen of the gods. Their voyage is replete with battles against harpies, a giant bronze Talos, a hydra, and an animated skeleton army, all brought to life by the special-effects wizardry of Ray Harryhausen.

When the evil magician Sokurah shrinks Princess Parisa to roughly half the size of a Barbie doll, only one thing can restore her: the egg of a Roc. The Roc, of course, is a gigantic bird that lives on the remote island of Colossa. Sinbad hires a crew of mutiny-minded convicts and sets sail, Sokurah in tow, but runs afoul of a fire-breathing dragon, a very ticked-off Cyclops, and an equally crabby two-headed mutant Roc. This swashbuckling adventure was the first installment of the Sinbad films, and decades later it still has the power to hold viewers spellbound. Thatcher is terrific as the sinister, shaven-headed Sokurah, mugging perfectly for the camera, and Mathews is suitably dashing as Sinbad.

Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map, accompanied by a slave girl with a mysterious tattoo of an eye on her palm. They encounter strange creatures, tempests, and the dark interference of Koura along the way.

Sinbad must deliver a prince transformed into a monkey to the lands of the Ademaspai to restore him to his human form in time for his coronation. On the way he must contend with the evil witch Zenobia, her son and their magic, and several nasty-looking Ray Harryhausen creatures.

Shipwrecked, Dr. Gulliver, soon finds himself in contact with both the diminutive Lilliputians and the gigantic Brobdingnagians.

Perseus has to rescue Andromeda, before she has to marry a monster. Zeus has set up a few tests for Perseus on the way, like capturing Pegasus, defeating Medusa, and finding a way to kill the dreaded Kraken.

Jill Young has brought up her pet gorilla since she was a child. Twelve years later, when the gorilla is fully grown, Hollywood promoter Max O'Hara travels to Tanzania, Africa, and convinces Jill to bring her extraordinarily large gorilla, Joe, back to America. While in Hollywood, Joe is used in a stage production and is exploited to no end. It doesn't take long until Joe is sick of being mistreated and he escapes to run loose in civilization.

As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast.

Cowboy James Franciscus seeks fame and fortune by capturing a Tyrannosaurus Rex living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. His victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public. Another film featuring the stop-action special-effects talents of Ray Harryhausen.

Caveman Tumak is banished from his savage tribe. He finds a brief home among a group of gentle seacoast dwelling cave people until he is banished from them as well. Missing him, one of their women, Loana leaves with him, deciding to face the harsh prehistoric world with its monsters and volcanos as a couple.

The Ray Harryhausen-Willis O'Brien dinosaur sequence from THE ANIMAL WORLD, with a brief introduction by Ray Harryhausen taped in 2003, may be found on the Warner Home Video release of Willis O'Brien's THE BLACK SCORPION. For legal reasons, THE ANIMAL WORLD may never be released on DVD in its entirety.