The History of Giant monsters from the silent film era in the early 1900s to 1933
I was coming down with a cold while filming this and didn’t realize. Apologies for the extra nasally sounding voice.
The Conquest of the Pole 1912 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-A8Dymqvc
Passed Uncut Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@passeduncut1854/featured
Kong Unmade: https://www.amazon.com/KONG-UNMADE-ISLAND-REVISITED-1925-1960-ebook/dp/B09ZY1MGMZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2T93AZPZTBKI1&keywords=Kong+Unmade&qid=1674678826&sprefix=kong+unmad%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-2
The Lost World 1925: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-World-Deluxe-Blu-ray/dp/B071LTF6TN/ref=sr_1_2?crid=120NLAK99YK2Z&keywords=the+lost+world+1925+blu+ray&qid=1674678863&sprefix=The+Lost+World+1925%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-2
Art from Thumbnail :https://www.deviantart.com/christianwillett/art/Attack-of-the-Giant-Monsters-Color-840835247
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I’m going to turn my 82 year old mom on to Godzilla while she recovers from her knee surgery. I need to pick three movies to show her, the first will be the original movie but I can’t decide on the other two but maybe the last one with King Kong. Any suggestions? She’s never seen not one. It was something I did with my dad. Any advice?❤😊
i often see that drawing of abunch of classic giant monsters but i was never able to see the original (i am talking about the one on the right side in 0:29)
4:06 they use this method for the velociraptors in Jurassic park
Screwed up on your request but I still shared this video on Kaiju Are Unusually Tall and look forward to the second episode.
Way back in 2002, we started to make a stop-motion horror movie, which live-action scenes, in our basement. It was not finished. It won't be finished, at least not by us.
Buster Keaton's "Three Ages" (1923) is worth noting for the prehistoric section where he rides on a brontosaurus.
It's because of Godzilla and Japanese Monster Movies, that when my Son played with Toy Soldiers as a boy, the Japanese Army joined the Allies!
That footage of a stop-motion animator at work is fantastic in its own right. Also, reminds me of watching a 3D zoetrope in action.
Just came across this video and subscribed. It's amazing to see just how many movie monsterscreatures there were before King Kong. Great job on the video – well researched and written. I'm looking forward to the next one!
Melies also had a film, Palace of the Arabian Knights, about a would-be prince and his warriors going into caverns to fight monsters, including skeletons, and one of them is a large dragon, so that might count, too.
I love the video and the subject . That being said , I don’t totally agree with critiquing the character of the filmmakers and whether or not they were racist and failed to act in the best of light. Bare in mind the time period . I won’t argue about Griffith , he was obvious. Doyle may have been progressive in thinking, but movies were still new overall and having his work actually adapted was probably so flattering that he most likely didn’t think of his principles at the time . Many authors might do it now , and fixing it is a good thing , but in the early days things were different.
I just suscribed, greetings from México
I hesitate to call Kong a giant monster. He's really just a giant gorilla. Nothing monstrous about that
Excellent documentary!
Great work! You've earned yourself a subscriber. Looking forward to the next episode!
Brilliant. Well Done! Very informative. Thank you.
Great Job!!! So Informative!!! Looking forward to viewing more of these!! Cheers!!
The consensus is that The Lost World is pretty much complete now, with the latest restoration. Not such an unfortunate situation after all. Watching it now you’d never guess it was so butchered and partially lost for so long. Incredible job of restoration.
I wonder when a giant monster movie about my ex-wife will be made?
Great video. Two of my favorite silent era monsters are the dragons in Die Nibelungen and The Thief of Bagdad. Thank you for this series.
The Lost World series from the 1990's is good, because of how it was more like a Gilligan's Island feal to it, but more serious than funny.
Very cool.
Radical chic! 🤣
Interesting. And believe me I understand the nasally sinus problems, don't worry about it.
I hadn't known before seeing this about the controversy between Dawley and O'Brien. It's very interesting because there's things about O'Brien's career that make you wonder about him. His work was served well by a model maker like Marcel Delgado, and yet when O'Brien worked on his own (The Giant Behemoth, I believe, and the Black Scorpion) the model work was less impressive, and the creature in The Giant Behemoth looks like it's right out of the silent era. (O'Brien fared a bit better with Black Scorpion, I think, but it's said some of the models seen in the underground scenes were leftovers from Kong). He couldn't seem to get projects off the ground, and so only worked sporadically. Ray Harryhausen, for instance, supposedly animated most of Mighty Joe Young. O'Brien was clearly an inventive guy–his signature animation style (best seen in Kong) is wonderful and Kong is full of character and charm, and that's obviously due in large part to O'Brien's choices. And yet he seems not to have been able to parlay his success into a solid career. Was he difficult to work with, or was he just unable to convince people that his ideas were worthy of spending money on?