Roger Corman - She Gods of Shark Reef - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Aug 23, 2007 5:49 PM On 2007-08-23 17:00, Thomas wrote: I was about to protest this, but on reflection I guess as "hip" goes, and with the comparison being to Martin Denny, I'll refrain. I also LOVE the Mills Brothers! My dad was a German Swingboy. "Paper Doll","Glow Worm","Till Then"...aaaah...I'll put them on right now! But on that cover, they appear as the personification of WHY Tiki and Polynesian pop was wiped out by the young set of the 60s and 70s: Silly, aloha garb costumed old farts only fit to entertain senior citizens. ---This is not a value judgment mind you, just an objective observation of history! One more thing, in case anyone wonders why Mr. Hideous Stone God appears so small in the first two film stills: Since he was a Hollywood prop, the underwater scenes were probably shot in a studio water tank, (not on Kauai), with him being outside, BEHIND the tank, while the actors dived through the glass tank in the foreground like aquarium fishies. He must have been out of plaster or fiberglass, not something to drop into water if you don't wanna buy it...and Corman would not have wanted to! PS.: One more thought: I bet Corman expected the "Idol" to look bigger, but had to concede with the distancing effect of the water tank....making it sort of an early version of the famous low budget Stonehenge scene in "Spinal Tap"! :)

On 2007-08-23 17:00, Thomas wrote:
I was about to protest this, but on reflection I guess as "hip" goes, and with the comparison being to Martin Denny, I'll refrain.

I also LOVE the Mills Brothers! My dad was a German Swingboy. "Paper Doll","Glow Worm","Till Then"...aaaah...I'll put them on right now! But on that cover, they appear as the personification of WHY Tiki and Polynesian pop was wiped out by the young set of the 60s and 70s: Silly, aloha garb costumed old farts only fit to entertain senior citizens. ---This is not a value judgment mind you, just an objective observation of history!

One more thing, in case anyone wonders why Mr. Hideous Stone God appears so small in the first two film stills:
Since he was a Hollywood prop, the underwater scenes were probably shot in a studio water tank, (not on Kauai), with him being outside, BEHIND the tank, while the actors dived through the glass tank in the foreground like aquarium fishies. He must have been out of plaster or fiberglass, not something to drop into water if you don't wanna buy it...and Corman would not have wanted to!

PS.: One more thought: I bet Corman expected the "Idol" to look bigger, but had to concede with the distancing effect of the water tank....making it sort of an early version of the famous low budget Stonehenge scene in "Spinal Tap"! :)

Post #327777 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Aug 23, 2007 5:49 PM