About Us

Archive Editions LLC is owned and operated by editor/publisher Ernest Farino, 2-time Emmy^® Award winning visual effects supervisor for films and television (The Terminator, HBO's From the Earth to the Moon, Children of Dune, and others). In the early 1970s, Farino and business partner Sam Calvin formed Talos Publications to publish FXRH, the now-legendary fanzine devoted to the stop motion animation of Ray Harryhausen. Now, Archive Editions continues that tradition with high-quality book and magazine projects devoted to visual effects and other aspects of cinema.

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Ray Harryhausen - Master of the Majicks by Mike Hankin
Volume 2 of the comprehensive 3-volume career biography of Ray Harryhausen.
Hardcover with dust jacket, 370 pages.

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FXRH Limited Edition Reprint
The numbered and signed (by the publisher) reprint of the sought-after first issue of the Ray Harryhausen fanzine FXRH.

In the works
The Best of FXRH
A compilation of all four issues of the fanzine FXRH devoted to Ray Harryhausen, with production details and anecdotes that chronicle the development and history of this now sought-after fanzine.

L-R: Ray Harryhausen, Sam Calvin, Ernest Farino, and producer Charles H. Schneer in 1977 for the Dallas, Texas opening of Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.

(photo by Doug Smith)