Written and produced over the past 10 years with Ray Harryhausen's cooperation, the complete 3-volume 295,000-word career/biography features interviews with Ray and his colleagues and is profusely illustrated with hundreds rare photographs, art, and posters (much of which has never been previously published).Interview material with visual effects technicians, actors, directors, writers, producers and others involved in the production of the films include historian and Ray's life-long friend Forrest J Ackerman, producer Hal Chester, cinematographer Wilkie Cooper, writers Ray Bradbury and Bernard Gordon, 7th Voyage of Sinbad "skeleton sequence" stunt supervisor Enzo Musumeci-Greco, author Leslie Halliwell, director Nathan Juran, actors Paul Christian, Kerwin Mathews and Paula Raymond, King Kong creator Willis O'Brien's wife Darlyne O'Brien, author Neil Pettigrew, producer Charles H. Schneer, author of the Amazing Stories novelization of 20 Million Miles to Earth Henry Slesar, and many others, some of whom have since passed away.PLUS-• Animation stills, live action/production photos, and "behind-the-scenes" candids• Frame enlargements from Harryhausen's own reel of outtakes, featuring unused animation from The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and It Came From Beneath the Sea• Obscure advertising art & posters from many different countries• Ray Harryhausen "Timeline" charting key dates in Ray's life and career• The officlal story synopses originally issued by the studios• Filmographies of key cast and crew• The actual forms submitted by the studios for Academy Award® consideration of the visual effects for the individual films• Essays on the music for the films covered in this volume, including reproductions of pages of David Buttolph's original hand-written manuscript of his score for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms• Harryhausen collectibles pertaining to the films covered in this volume, from the 8mm editions to laserdiscs to resin kits and toys

Ray Harryhausen - Master of the Majicks (Volume 2)

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Foreword by Caroline Munro (star of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad), and Preface by Guillermo del Toro (director of Hellboy), who writes, "There is no way to overstate the importance of these books. [Volume 3] is, simply, the most perfect book about Harryhausen ever made. This is the book that you dreamt of having as a child and the only gateway, I guarantee you, to regain that long-gone thrill you had when you where eight years old and you cracked open the pages of the latest issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland.  Perhaps more importantly, this book performs one truly magic trick- one that we don't experience often enough: it makes you want to go out, immediately, and rewatch every single one of the the chronicled films and, if at all possible, go and shoot a film yourself. In summation: It makes you fall in love with cinema all over again."Vol. 3 features extensive coverage of: Three Worlds of Gulliver, Mysterious Island, Jason and the Argonauts, First Men "In" the Moon, One Million Years B.C., Valley of Gwangi, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, and Clash of the Titans. Filled with first-hand accounts and anecdotes from actors, directors, screenwriters, and technicians, including: Ray Harryhausen, Vanessa Harryhausen; producer Charles H. Schneer; actors Kerwin Mathews, John Phillip Law, Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Jane Seymour, Harry Hamlin, Judi Bowker, Gila Golan (star of Valley of Gwangi in her first interview in over 40 years), Michael Callan, Lionel Jeffries, Martha Hyer, voiceover artist Nikki van der Zyl (who re-voiced Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C.); directors Nathan Juran, Sam Wanamaker, Gordon Hessler, and Desmond Davis; sculptors Arthur Hayward, Tony McVey, and Colin Arthur; cinematographer Wilkie Cooper, camera operator Alec Mills, stunt choreographer Ferdinando Poggi, Jason and the Argonauts title artist James Wines (interviewed for the first time about Jason), and many others (some of whom have since passed away).

Ray Harryhausen - Master of the Majicks: The British Films, Volume 3 (Majicks, Volume 3)

Archive Editions

Written and produced over the past 10 years with Ray Harryhausen's cooperation and support, the complete 3-volume definitive 295,000-word career/biography features interviews with Ray and his colleagues and is profusely illustrated with several hundred rare photographs, artwork, and illustrations (many of which have never been previously published).

Ray Harryhausen: Master of the Majicks - Volume 1: Beginnings and Endings

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Ray Harryhausen - Master of the Majicks (Volume 2)

Ray Harryhausen - Master of the Majicks: The British Films, Volume 3 (Majicks, Volume 3)

Ray Harryhausen: Master of the Majicks - Volume 1: Beginnings and Endings