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

00:03:43 his many films including Tarantula and The Incredible Shrinking Man

00:05:21 It was only appropriate that Universal ingénue Julia Adams

00:07:04 mainly because Ed Ball, who owned it, had protected it over the years

00:08:42 and the bottom of it, it put me at about 6' 7".

00:10:19 I think it was her dream child. She loved him.

00:11:50 and almost every scale is where the actual suit was.

00:13:20 and so he had trouble getting the same end result.

00:15:00 The heroine's bathing suit.

00:16:28 I was carrying Julie in my arms through this cave.

00:18:00 There is no link between man and fish, but with Creature from the Black Lagoon

00:19:49 But they had to incorporate that into their music every time they saw the creature.

00:21:34 One of the film's most memorable sequences is the provocative pas de deux

00:23:06 who's swimming on top of the water.

00:24:50 Then she takes her cigarette and tosses it into the water.

00:26:34 who has transmogrified from Julie Adams into Lori Nelson, but never mind.

00:28:02 Strong upstairs, but no stamina.

00:29:40 Revenge of the Creature should be called Revenge of the Scientists

00:31:14 No, he just said "Do your thing."

00:32:36 and glue the heel back on the foot cos it was the last pair.

00:34:11 it would destroy the effect.

00:35:56 And it's that pattern, it's that pattern of evolution within those three films.

00:37:30 And they all have great things to say about the movie.