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Early 1900s | Circus
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When this film was first conceived it was supposed to have been a follow-up to King Kong (1933), but was never made. However, an early B&W version of the "cowboys in Africa" footage was shot, and wound up being used in Mighty Joe Young (1949).
This was the last film where Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion effects technique was billed as "Dynamation". Starting with his next film, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), Dynamation would be rebranded as "Dynarama".
Special effects master Ray Harryhausen has said that sequence of the elephant performing its act and its subsequent fight with Gwangi were done with no shots of a real elephant because no such animal was available. However, there is an elephant in the very early scene of the Wild West show's parade through the town and Harryhausen's animation puppet is a perfect double for it.
The sound that Gwangi makes is that of a camel and a raspberry run backwards.
Whereas all of Ray Harryhausen's past films had an "Approved" rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, the modern ratings system was introduced around this time, and this was the first film of his to get a "G" rating.
"Tia Zorina: He who takes from Gwangi the evil one is cursed. Carlos: Only by an old woman's tongue. Tia Zorina: I tell you, if he does not go back to the forbidden vally we shall all suffer a terrible fate. My eyes are blind but I can still see the signs. Carlos: Keep your superstitions to yourself, old woman. Tia Zorina: Fool! One day he will learn to obey the law of Gwangi, or like his brother he will perish!"
"Lope: What kind of bird is it, professor? Professor Bromley: Oh, no bird...a giant pterydactyl...a flying reptile. It's been extinct for over 50 million years. T.J.: Then what is it doing here? Professor Bromley: Precisely...what is it doing here?"
