We were contacted a couple of months ago by the Jacksonville Museum of Science and History (MOSH) about borrowing the Creature From The Black Lagoon we had made for our Halloween displays to be part of a six-month long exhibit on Jacksonville's history of movie production, and we gladly made him available to them.
They had a reception last night for everyone who loaned items, and we went there to see how our guy was doing. We found out our Creature had been getting a lot of attention. The original plan had been to have the Creature Feature section out on one of the wings, and the center was going to be for Comedies and an interactive filming exhibit. Apparently a pretty impressive crowd followed the Creature in when it arrived from our house, and there was a lot of interest from visitors watching the workers setting him up, so they bumped the Comedies display to the wing and put the Creature Feature display at the center.
The museum's curator told us she thinks the Creature is going to be the star of the show when the school field trips start up later this month.
The mask in the photo of the display case is from a movie called Zaat, that was shot in Jacksonville in 1971.
And this is a picture I took of the area at the far end of the MOSH's parking lot. This was where the Lobster House restaurant used to stand. This was the restaurant the Creature attacks in Revenge of the Creature. Just to the right of the area in the image was where the buoy was that was seen in the movie when the police see Lori Nelson on it. This was also where Tom Hennessy, who was playing the Creature at the time, almost drowned and had to be pulled out of the St. John's River by a couple of kids who were watching the filming from their boat.
They had a reception last night for everyone who loaned items, and we went there to see how our guy was doing. We found out our Creature had been getting a lot of attention. The original plan had been to have the Creature Feature section out on one of the wings, and the center was going to be for Comedies and an interactive filming exhibit. Apparently a pretty impressive crowd followed the Creature in when it arrived from our house, and there was a lot of interest from visitors watching the workers setting him up, so they bumped the Comedies display to the wing and put the Creature Feature display at the center.
The museum's curator told us she thinks the Creature is going to be the star of the show when the school field trips start up later this month.
The mask in the photo of the display case is from a movie called Zaat, that was shot in Jacksonville in 1971.
And this is a picture I took of the area at the far end of the MOSH's parking lot. This was where the Lobster House restaurant used to stand. This was the restaurant the Creature attacks in Revenge of the Creature. Just to the right of the area in the image was where the buoy was that was seen in the movie when the police see Lori Nelson on it. This was also where Tom Hennessy, who was playing the Creature at the time, almost drowned and had to be pulled out of the St. John's River by a couple of kids who were watching the filming from their boat.
