Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

The fad for 3-D film would last for only two years, 1952 – 1954, and helped sell House of Wax and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

These films include Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bend of the River, Untamed Frontier, The Golden Horde, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, Man Made Monster, While the City Sleeps and The Monster That Challenged the World.

Many geologists and fossil collectors from Europe and America visited Anning at Lyme, including the geologist George William Featherstonhaugh, who called Anning a " very clever funny Creature.

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In April 2008, Aardman launched the Aardman YouTube channel, which is a YouTube Partner channel featuring the entire Creature Comforts TV series, the Morph series, Cracking Contraptions and clips from the Wallace and Gromit films.

During this period, the fish-man monster Gill-man was developed in the film series Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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On a TV special in the early 1950s, the two did a sketch where they interacted with the latest original Universal Studios monster being promoted at the time, the Creature from the Black Lagoon ( 1954 ).

Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell.

Creature from the Black Lagoon was filmed and originally released in 3-D requiring polarized 3-D glasses, and subsequently reissued in the 1970s in the inferior anaglyph format ( this version was released on home video by MCA Videocassette, Inc. in 1980 ).

Dr. Thompson and Dr. Maia both die grisly deaths, whereas in the movie they survive ; Maia is eaten by the monster, and Thompson is impaled on a long tree branch flung at him by the creature like a spear ( in an apparent nod to a deleted scene from Revenge of the Creature wherein the Gill-man killed a guard in this fashion ).

Even earlier, in The Seven Year Itch, the film is referenced when Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe come out of a theatre showing Creature from the Black Lagoon.

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The Marvel Comics character Triton of the Inhumans is a green water breathing character resembling the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas, there is a character in Halloween Town who is clearly meant to be a version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 a band from North Carolina who were fronted by now Murderdolls lead singer and solo artist Wednesday 13 also did a song about the creature naming it Creature From The Black Lagoon.

Dave Edmunds also did a song called " Creature from the Black Lagoon ".

The half-man half-fish character known as The Missing link ( often referred to as ' Link ') in the movie Aliens vs. Monsters is an homage to the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

With the financial success of The Mummy remake in May 1999, development of the Creature from the Black Lagoon remake was revived.

Once he finishes filming that, he will begin filming Creature from the Black Lagoon in Manaus, Brazil and on the Amazon River in Peru.

In March of 2012, Universal announced that a reboot is in production, and will simply be referred to as The Black Lagoon rather than The Creature from the Black Lagoon, in order to distinguish the two versions.

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She introduced the future director, the middle of three children, to the world of cinema by leaving him at a local cinema to watch matinee double features such as Attack of the Crab Monsters and Creature From the Black Lagoon while she ran errands.

The creature decides to make his own cereal called " Creature with the Black Macaroons " because macaroon sounds like lagoon ; however, the cereal wasn't successful and when all the cereals were dumped into his lagoon, he says " I should've gone with legumes ", as legume also sounds like lagoon.

Trinidadian calypso singer Lord Melody released a song called " Creature From The Black Lagoon " in 1957.

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He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

The costume for Polyphemus was provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop with David Barclay operating the face of Polyphemus.

The first short film, A Grand Day Out, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to Creature Comforts, another animated creation of Nick Park.

Eastwood's first acting role was an uncredited bit part as a laboratory assistant in the 1955 film Revenge of the Creature.

The game's music, later re-used and arranged in games such as Super Smash Bros. Melee, was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, who later became president of Creature Inc., a subsidiary of Nintendo that owns one-third of the copyright regarding the Pokémon franchise.

The Jim Henson Company was largely responsible for the various alien makeup and prosthetics, and two regular characters ( the animatronic puppets Rygel and Pilot ) are entirely Creature Shop creations.

Revenge of the Creature was also filmed and released in 3-D, in hopes of reviving the format.

The original serial was to have used clips from The Pirate Planet, The Power of Kroll, The Creature from the Pit, The Androids of Tara, Destiny of the Daleks, and City of Death.

George Martin's AIR recording studios, in converted church premises in Lyndhurst Road, is a current example, as Jim Henson's Creature Shop was, before it relocated to California.

Creature Double Feature was a syndicated horror show, broadcast in the Boston and Philadelphia area during the 1970s and 1980s.

The main announcer on Creature Double feature was a channel 56, long time booth announcer, Neil MacNevin.

The intro / outro music used for Creature Double Feature throughout its run was Emerson, Lake & Palmer's " Toccata " from Brain Salad Surgery.

Because of his height he was briefly considered for the part of the Creature in Hammer's Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), which ultimately ( and famously ) went instead to Christopher Lee.

Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 British humorous animated short film about how animals feel about living in a zoo, featuring the voices of the British public " spoken " by the animals.

The original Creature Comforts short film was five minutes long and was conceived and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations featuring the voices of British non-actors in the same vein as the " man on the street " Vox Pop interviews.

The initial result of their collaboration was three 30-second Creature Comforts advertisements, made in the same style as the original film.

Although there had been a tradition of vox pop advertisements going back to the soap powder adverts of the 1960s, the Creature Comforts series was distinctive in its juxtaposition of real-life dialogue and animated creatures.

In fact Creature Comforts was subsequently voted by media professionals ( in leading trade outlets Marketing and Brand Republic ) as one of the top television advertisements of the last 50 years.