Film
1004: Creature from the Black Lagoon
Trivia: Ingmar Bergman watched
this film every year on his birthday.
Ricou Browning, a
professional diver and swimmer, was required to hold his breath for up to 4
minutes at a time for his underwater role as the "Gill Man." The
director's logic was that the air would have to travel through the monster's
gills and thus not reveal air bubbles from his mouth or nose. Thus, the costume
was designed without an air tank. In the subsequent films, this detail was
ignored and air can be seen emanating from the top of the creature's head.
Jenny
Clack (University of Cambridge) discovered a fossil amphibian, found in the
remnants of what was once a fetid swamp and named it Eucritta melanolimnetes -
literally "the creature from the black lagoon".
Originally
produced in 3-D.
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