Legacy
Footage from this film, as well as numerous unused shots and outtakes, went into a stock footage library. This footage was then used by numerous companies through the years by producers who wanted to save money on costly effects shots in special effects films that featured dinosaurs. As well, even a few Westerns used footage of rockslides and volcanoes from this film too. Because of this, footage from this film appeared in numerous films throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. These films include: Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943), one of the chapters of the Superman serial (1948), Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), Two Lost Worlds (1950), The Lost Volcano (1950; Bomba, the Jungle Boy series), the American version of Godzilla Raids Again, Jungle Manhunt (1951; Jungle Jim series), Smoky Canyon (1952), the Yesterday's World episode of The Schaefer Century Theatre, Untamed Women (1952), Robot Monster (1953), The Lost Planet (1953), King Dinosaur (1955), Three Stooges's Space Ship Sappy (1957), Teenage Cave Man (1958), She Demons (1958), Valley of the Dragons (1961), Journey to the Center of Time (1967), Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970; the stock footage was tinted in color for this film), the Mexican films Island of the Dinosaurs (La Isla De Los Dinosaurios; 1967), Adventure at the Center of the Earth (Aventura al centro de la tierra; 1966), and The Ghost Jesters (Los fantasmas burlones; 1964), One Million AC/DC (1970), TerrorVision, and Attack of the B Movie Monster (1989). The technique of using optically enlarged lizards to represent dinosaurs has been given the nickname of "slurpasaur" by fans.
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