OT American copying - was Re: [Sca-cooks] American Iron Chef

[Ted Eisenstein]

>I'm talking over forty years ago, when a film revolution
>(such as it was) occurred for the production of a cheesy
>American-financed monster movie about a big lizard. Much of it was done
>with stop-motion photography in Japan only because people like Willis H.
>O'Brien and his young apprentice, Ray Harryhausen, were far too
>expensive for the number of camera-minutes in which Gojira is actually
>visible.

Stop-action? I thought Gojira was a guy in a cheesy rubber suit?

Alban