Format: Box set, Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC / INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE YMIR FIGURE!
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition The 20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition contains extensive new bonus features including audio commentaries by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett; featurettes such as Remembering 20 Million Miles to Earth, with Harryhausen and others discussing the film's production and influence; The Colorization Process, a look at Legend Films work; Interview with Joan Taylor; Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen; David Schecter on Film Music's Unsung Hero; plus a video montage of the film's marketing and advertising materials by producer Arnold Kunert; and video photo galleries.
Though special effects techniques today have been dramatically transformed by CGI, Ray Harryhausen's highly imaginative and incredibly detailed work continues to hold audiences spellbound today. A disciple of stop-motion pioneer Willis O'Brien (King Kong), Harryhausen adapted O'Brien's techniques. O'Brien developed and created his own genre of film from the 1950s to the 1980s utilizing his stop-motion process (eventually identified as "Dynamation"). His memorable films include The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), One Million Years, B.C. (1966), The Valley of Gwangi (1969), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), and Clash of the Titans (1981). His amazing body of work continues to inspire many of today's special effects wizards.
Upon its return from a mission to Venus, an American spaceship crash lands in the sea near Sicily. The rescue party discovers that the astronauts have brought back a curious gelatinous mass that soon hatches and evolves into a strange bi-ped creature which rapidly increases in size. While being subjected to laboratory experimentation, the creature, now 20-feet tall, escapes its confines, goes on a destructive rampage through Rome, battles a zoo elephant and swims in the Tiber. It eventually takes refuge in the Colosseum, where the film's pyrotechnic finale occurs during a climactic showdown with the military.
DVD Special Features Include:
* Featurette: Remembering 20 Million Miles to Earth
* Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Other Visual Effects Specialists
* Featurette: The Colorization Process
* Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music's Unsung Hero
* Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
* Featurette: Interview with Joan Taylor
* Advertising Artwork video montage of film's ad materials by Producer Arnold Kunert
* Video Photo Galleries
* Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book 20 Million Miles More
* Audio: English
* Subtitles: English
It Came From Beneath The Sea
Directed by Robert Gordon (Tarzan and The Jungle Boy), the newly colorized film, depicting a giant octopus attacking San Francisco stars Kenneth Tobey (The King From Another World), Faith Demergue (Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers), Donald Curtis (Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers) and Ian Keith (The Ten Commandments). The two-disc DVD contains all new video and audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett; video photo galleries; original artwork video montage by Arnold Kunert; a sneak peek at the digital comic book, plus the film music (Film Music's Unsung Hero) and Tim Burton featurettes (Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen) also included on the two other titles in the collection.
SYNOPSIS
A giant stop-motion-animated octopus attacks San Francisco. A pair of scientists and a nuclear sub captain try to stop the monster before it tears down the Golden Gate Bridge.
DVD Special Features Include:
* Featurette: Ray Harryhausen on It Came From Beneath The Sea
* Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Visual Effects Specialists
* A Video Discussion of It Came From Beneath the Sea's 1955 marketing and advertising campaign by producer Arnold Kunert
* Featurette: A Present Day Look at Stop Motion
* Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music's Unsung Hero
* Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
* Still and Production Art Gallery
* Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book It Came from Beneath the Sea.Again!
* Audio: English
* Subtitles: English
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers, with its ground breaking visual effects techniques, was the first of several collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. The film about the invasion of earth and destruction of Washington D.C. was masterfully directed by Fred F. Sears (Crash of Silence) and stars Joan Taylor (20 Million Miles to Earth), Hugh Marlowe (Another World), Donald Curtis (The Ten Commandments) and Morris Ankrum (Invaders from Mars). The two-disc DVD features new commentary by Harryhausen, the featurette A Present Day Look at Stop Motion, video photo galleries, original artwork video montage, a sneak peek at the digital comic book; plus the Interview with Joan Taylor, Music and Tim Burton featurettes included on the other films in the collection.
SYNOPSIS
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 Martians only wanted to kill them. The invasion has begun and if Russell and Carol can't find a way to get past their defenses and stop these creatures, it may be the end of the human race.
DVD Special Features Include:
* Featurette: Harryhausen on Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
* Audio Commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Other Visual Effects Specialists
* Featurette: A Present Day Look at Stop Motion
* Video Photo Galleries
* Featurette: Tim Burton Sits Down with Ray Harryhausen
* Featurette: Interview with Joan Taylor
* Advertising Artwork video montage of film's ad materials by Producer Arnold Kunert
* Featurette: David Schecter on Film Music's Unsung Hero
* Featurette: The Hollywood Blacklist and Bernard Gordon
* Sneak Peek of Digital Comic Book Flying Saucers vs. the Earth
* Audio: English
* Subtitles: English
20 Million Miles to Earth: 50th Anniversary Edition has a run time of 82 minutes and is not rated.
It Came From Beneath the Sea has a run time of 79 minutes and is not rated.
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers has a run time of 83 minutes and is not rated.
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