It Came from Beneath the Sea

Newly Colorized - Now Available!

Now's your chance to get Ray's classic It Came From Beneath the Sea — in COLOR. Personally supervised by Ray, with colorization by West Wing Studios. This edition also includes a restored b&w version of the film.

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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

Newly Colorized - Now Available!

Now's your chance to get one of Ray's most popular B&W films — in COLOR. Personally supervised by Ray, with colorization by Legend Films. This edition also includes a restored b&w version of the film.

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Ray Harryhausen Recommends
New Bernard Herrmann Scores

Tribute Film Classics has just released Mysterious Island and Fahrenheit 451 in definitive CD editions with bonus material and deluxe booklets.           

A new recording label dedicated to meticulous rerecordings of classic film scores hits the ground running with two CDs of music from the esteemed composer, Bernard Herrmann.           

Christened Tribute Film Classics, the label premieres with Herrmann’s spectacularly colorful Mysterious Island on one disc, and the beautifully moving Fahrenheit 451, coupled with the poetic ‘Walking Distance’ episode of The Twilight Zone, on another. The scores are painstakingly complete with tantalizing, never-before-heard music.

Score restorations are by TFC principals John Morgan, Anna Bonn and William Stromberg, who also conducted the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in exacting, stellar performances for both releases.  

Mysterious Island (1961), based on the book by Jules Verne, was produced by Charles Schneer and visual effects genius Ray Harryhausen. Hermann’s wildly diverse and wonderfully descriptive score runs the gamut from the grandly epic to the exhilaratingly quirky to the ethereally beautiful as he captures the essence of majesty, monsters, and mystery.

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) was Francois Truffaut’s film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novella about a future totalitarian society where books are forbidden. Guy Montag (Oskar Werner) is one of many firemen whose job is to burn all printed matter, but when he decides to steal and read a book, his world view turns upside down.            

Not only does this score contain some of Herrmann’s most beautiful and moving film music since The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Vertigo, his harmonic language is filled with surprises on every page and is quite unlike anything he had previously written.          

The companion piece on this CD is Herrmann’s sensitive, poetic score for The Twilight Zone episode ‘Walking Distance’ about a jaded executive who visits his hometown only to find it exactly as it was when he was fifteen.

Both CDs have an accompanying 32-page color booklet which contains remembrances from author Bradbury, composer Christopher Young, and The Bernard Herrmann Society’s Gunther Kogebehn, with comprehensive liner notes by Kevin Scott.  

These unique recordings are only sold worldwide online at www.screenarchives.com.

Harryhausen Color Gift Set

Available June 2008!

Now's your chance to get three of Ray's most popular B&W filns — in COLOR. Personally supervised by Ray, with colorization by Legend Films, this set includes It Came from Beneath the Sea, Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers and 20 Million Miles to Earth. This edition also includes a restored b&w version of each film.

Included in this set is a special bonus: a 6-inch tall replica of Ray's original Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth.

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20 Million Miles to Earth

Newly Colorized! available now in
Blu-Ray & DVD formats

Personally supervised by Ray, with colorization by Legend Films, this 2-disc Special Edition includes a restored b&w version.

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

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Ray Harryhausen Presents:
Wrath of the Titans #2
and
20 Million Miles More #1

Now Available

Ray has joined forces with BlueWater Productions on a series of new comic book ventures under the "Ray Harryhausen Presents" banner.
 
BlueWater will produce six titles with Ray, advancing the adventures of the characters he brought to life in his classic sci-fi and fantasy franchises. Slated for release later this year are "Sinbad, Rogue of Mars" and "20 Million Miles More".

Ask for "Wrath of the Titans" issues 1 & 2 and "20 Million Miles More" #1 at your local comic book store.

"SHE" 2-Disc Expanded Edition
Kino Release

The SHE 2-disc DVD release includes both the newly-colorized and the restored black-and-white versions of the film, along with a commentary track by Ray and Merian C. Cooper biographer, Mark Cotta Vaz. In addition, there is at least one hour of additional special features produced especially for this release.

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In July, 2006, KNB EFX Group surprised Ray Harryhausen at their Van Nuys, California, facility with a life-size replica of one of Harryhausen’s skeletons from his classic Jason and the Argonauts.  Designed and created by Chad Atkinson, along with Barry Krane, Alex Diaz, Al Lorenzana, and Steve Hartman,  the skeleton can be dismantled for transporting to Harryhausen’s future Southern California appearances. 

Photo by Howard Berger