These Miller waxy plastic prehistoric creatures were the stars of my second amateur 16mm movie, The Earth Befpre Man, another dinosaur film, made in 1956. I knew nothing about special effects in those days, so I made the animals move by pulling them along on “invisible” threads. At the time, and to my child’s eyes, the result seemed quite spectacular. The ape, by the way, was not part of the Miller set. But I’d just seen the movie King Kong for the first time, and…
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