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Chapter 25 -- Radio Days and Saturday Matinees
In The Monster That Challenged the World (1957), an
earthquake has led to the hatching of eggs belonging to
a prehistoric giant mollusk. The hatchlings escape into
an aquifer, emerge from the Salton Sea and proceed to
terrorize the citizens of California's Imperial Valley.
The problem is finding them all before they escape to
the ocean. The scientists must locate the underground
river that leads to the slimy predators' nest.
Selections of the film's music were reused in King Kong
vs. Godzilla (1962).
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961) begins with bad
weather forcing a helicopter to land in an atomic testing
range in the Arabian desert where the crew notices a
local going over a waterfall.
When they pull him to safety, he takes them captive and
leads them down to Atlantis, which turns out to have
sunk into the sands of the desert, not the Atlantic. In
the escape sequence, heroes battle guards and flee via
an underground river. The photo suggests why Boys
Clubs liked the movie.
Gone may be Saturday matinee at the Bijou, but there's the television.
In the 1974-77 TV series Land of the Lost, Rick Marshall, his son Will and daughter Holly are
rafting the Grand Canyon when they are caught in an earthquake. The Colorado River dives into
the earth's interior, and down the trio plunges!
The theme song,
Marshall, Will, and Holly
On a routine expedition
Met the greatest earthquake ever known.
High on the rapids
It struck their tiny raft.
And plunged them down a thousand feet below.
To the Land of the Lost.
To the Land of the Lost.
To the Land of the Lost
Animations
The previous chapter dealt with frame-by-frame comic strips and comic books. We'll now
progress to animations.
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