Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle

00:00:30 The creature from the Black Lagoon.

00:02:08 Frightening tales of humanoid sea serpents, sirens, mermaids and mermen

00:03:46 which would be remembered as his masterpiece.

00:05:29 In those days the studio simply assigned us movies to do.

00:07:12 So Jack Arnold and Scotty Welbourne, who was the cameraman

00:08:52 that it's almost a shock to learn that the original concept was very different.

00:10:31 She clearly had a lot to do with sketching the concepts for the creature, all versions.

00:12:13 It took me two to three hours to get in and out

00:13:38 They ran tubes up and had compressed air.

00:15:16 And it was always very difficult to get it on every day with the body make-up

00:16:57 of Dick Carlson, Dick Denning, myself

00:18:49 I think it sounds about 130 times in the picture.

00:20:21 Herman got main titles and end titles.

00:22:18 I must have thought about its sexual content.

00:23:45 But because we linger, the longer we linger

00:25:36 and so juxtaposing that to the business with the cigarette

00:27:18 and as it turned out, it's probably one of the films that I'm most remembered for.

00:28:43 One night we had a big water fight at the motel and just about wrecked the place.

00:30:27 Jack Arnold storyboarded most of his films, as far as I'm aware.

00:32:03 And we watched them feed the fish, so we felt pretty secure.

00:33:32 to see if there would be a revival in 3-D.

00:35:09 Two separate coverings. He had lungs and gills.

00:36:54 wristwatches, even a pinball machine.

01:09:05 would have taken it for granted.