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LONGBOX
KIT #426
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Click
image at
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Instruction Cover, or read transcrpt below.
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The Creature from the Black Lagoon
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"In
the beginning of time as the gasses cooled, the planet Earth became covered
with oceans. Slowly, life began to evolve in the oceans. As the waters
receeded and continents were formed, life moved from the water to the
land. From this primeval slime 150 million years ago came a Creature so
horrible as to be unbelievable. At least ten feet tall, it was neither
fish nor human but a hideous combination of both. Instead of hands and
feet it had long webbed claws. It was completely covered with scales.
Down the center of its back was a double row of fins. Its head was ghastly
to behold. The eyes were without benefit of eyelids. The mouth was a wide
slash across the face, constantly pulsating. There was no real nose. Where
ears should have been there were gills throbbing like the mouth.
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As the earth went through its many upheavals the Creature dropped back
into the slime. Millions of years passed and it remained in a suspended
state. Then, from the time of the ancient Greeks tales of a dreadful sea
monster came down through the centuries. These tales were attributed to
the overactive imaginations of superstitious sailors.
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A
group of oceanographers went to the Black Lagoon in the steaming Amazon
jungle in search of rare fish and plantlife. They pulled up their fishing
nets only to find them hopelesslyl torn. Donning oxygen tanks, two of
the men went into the water to investigate. Suddenly, from the forbidding
depths came a hideous being. The Creature of the legends had again risen
from the slime. The divers drew their spear-guns but were powerless against
its savage attack. With a brutal swipe of its clawed fin the Creature
broke the neck of one diver. The other diver barely escaped a similar
fate.
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Back
on the boat the remaining diver related the dreadful experience. The crew
rescued the body of the other man and headed out of the lagoon. They began
to plan the capture of the Creature. The mouth of the lagoon was barricaded.
While they were deciding how to remove the obstacle the Creature climbed
onto the boat. Before anyone realized what was happening it kidnapped
a woman and dragged her beneath the water. All thought of capture was
abandoned. The diver grabbed his spear gun and followed the vanishing
figures. A rocky wall appeared before him. He entered a crevasse which
opened into a cave, the underwater lair of the Creature. There he found
the Creature and its captive. The diver took careful aim with his spear-gun
and fired. The spears merely glanced off the Creature's scaly body..
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The
other members of the group found an alternate entrance to the cave on
shore. Armed with pistols and rifles they climbed down into it. As their
eyes became accustomed to the gloom the rescue party saw their companions.
Disregarding warnings the rescuers scrambled over the slippery rocks.
From around a boulder the Creature appeared. The men fired at it. Bullets
were far more effective than spears. A vile substance oozed from the wounds.
For a time it looked like the Creature would attack. Instead it climbed
out of the cave. The men pursued it through the jungle. It was fantastic
that anything could have survived but, undaunted, the Creature continued
to the sea.
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They watched as the Creature swam out and then disappeared beneath the
water. Who would believe what they had seen? You may. Someday, as you
look at the ocean water and hear a splashing, and see a fish, look closer.
Then run for your life."
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Promotional
Copy from Original Instruction Sheet
©1963 Aurora Model Corp. |
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Similar
promotional text was used for the Glow Series Kit #483. I don't
have a legible copy. If any one out their does, I'd love a copy!
Like the other instruction inserts in the series, the halftone image
was a close-up of the retouched Bama
Gouaches.
Here's a small pic, I don't have another. Do you?.
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