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)

Mike Hankin

Archive Editions

The legendary FXRH fanzine published from 1971 - 1974, finally reprinted in a Deluxe Edition by the original publishers.

Includes new and rare artwork and photos, many never printed before or since!

In 1971, Ernest Farino and Sam Calvin teamed up to create and publish the first fanzine devoted entirely to stop motion master Ray Harryhausen. Named for Ray's on-screen credit, Special Visual Effects Created by Ray Harryhausen (or FXRH) made its debut as a 26-page offset publication, side-stapled, with an original print run of only 300 copies. Now, this limited edition softcover book combines all four issues and includes:

Extensive coverage of Ray's 16mm Fairy Tales, including frame blowups
Technical analysis of the effects in Valley of Gwangi
Detailed 2-part filmbook on Jason and the Argonauts
The 1971 interview with Ray & Charles Schneer at the National Film Theater
Sam Calvin's famous "jiggling rock" parody
Ray Harryhausen's aerial brace creations
Frame-by-frame sequences
A separate, exclusive interview with Charles Schneer
Coverage of the then-new The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
An exclusive interview with Kerwin Mathews conducted by Star Wars' Mark Hamill
Ray Harryhausen's early 16mm experimental films illustrated by frame blowups
Complete cast & credits from Ray's films
Plus Trivia, editorials, facts and figures, cartoons

All of the above reprint material - presented just as the original magazines were at the time they came out - are interspersed with:

Cover portrait of Ray Harryhausen by 2012 Rondo Award-winning artist Mark Maddox
An ongoing account of the trials and tribulations of producing FXRH - one of the first animation and visual effects fanzines
Sam Calvin's account of meeting Ray in London in 1971
A lengthy letter from Jim Danforth in reply to FXRH #4 (never printed because there was no issue #5)
New material covering Ray's career in the intervening years

This book was issued in a limited edition of 1,000 copies.

The FXRH Collection: A Compilation of All Four Issues of the Classic Ray Harryhausen Fanzine from the 1970s

Ernest Farino

Sam Calvin

Pebbles, Debris: And Other Poems

Jim Dening

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