CBS News - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Monsters... (Complete Special, 1981) 💀 👻

Here's a complete "news" documentary about the monster phenomenon (just in time for Halloween) - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Monsters...But Were Afraid!, as aired over the CBS Network. Host is Charles Osgood, from the Dracula castle at the Universal Studios tour in Hollywood.

Note: All commercials, bumpers [except most of those that ended each segment], promos, news updates and station ID's - plus sponsor billboards, if any - were edited out of this recording; also there is no voiceover promo for coming CBS Network shows at the end.

Includes:

Segment 1 - Quote on screen about growing up fascinated by monsters from writer Daniel Cohen, followed by clips of "Nosferatu" (1922), Charles' setup intro, and clips from other movies, leading to opening titles

Segment 2 - Clips from the 1946 "Beauty and the Beast," the 1931 "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "The Island of Dr. Moreau," "Them!," "The Thing (From Another World)," "Frankenstein" [1931], the Lon Chaney Jr. "Wolf Man," the 1925 "Phantom of the Opera," the 1933 "King Kong," "Creature from the Black Lagoon," "The Elephant Man," the original "Godzilla" (and his evolution) and their back stories; Charles recounts all Frankenstein follow-ups; and an interview with Famous Monsters magazine publisher James Warren

Segment 3 - Making of a Japanese TV monster show; special effects in "Clash of the Titans" and "Jason and the Argonauts," and their creator, Ray Harryhausen, with some of his monsters at the Museum of Modern Art; an interview with writer Jeff Rovin about Harryhausen's work and technique

Segment 4 - A look inside a "monster factory" in North Hollywood where creatures are created for the movies; an interview with chief monster maker Rick Baker, who shows what some of his assistants are doing to bring them to life; some of his examples include the original 1977 "Star Wars," the 1976 "King Kong" (in which he himself was the monster) and "An American Werewolf in London"

Segment 5 - The origins of monsters, perhaps going back 100 million years to the dinosaurs (with clips from "Fantasia" and "One Million Years B.C."), a look at one of the American Museum of Natural History's exhibits, followed by clips from "The Lost World" [1925], and the first "Godzilla" movie; an interview with Daniel Cohen who insists there's no link between dinosaurs and monsters, and speaks of their earliest depictions which resembled dragons (and explains dragons' origins), with clips from "Dragonslayer" and the 1933 "King Kong" (about 20 seconds of which had to be edited out to avoid blocking); a look at the twist in "Pete's Dragon"

Segment 6 - A look at more modern examples, the Yeti of Tibet (a.k.a. the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, a.k.a. "Sasquatch" or "Bigfoot"; with a clip from "The Abominable Snowman" [1957], an interview with Roger Patterson who filmed an encounter with such creature in 1967, and a look at a 1981 expedition led by John Beckyord (sp?) at El Dorado National Forest) and the Loch Ness Monster ("Nessie") of the highlands of Scotland (with a clip from "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," a film taken by Tim Dinsdale, sightings within the U.S. including Chesapeake Bay with "Chessie" and Lake Champlain with "Champ" in a photo taken by Sandra Mansi; the University of Chicago's Dr. Roy Mackal, who'd consulted on one Loch Ness expedition, speaks about such creatures); and going back to the original "King Kong"

Segment 7 - Charles sums up the monster phenomenon in closing, with a clip from a later Godzilla movie as he heads off into the sunset, followed by the closing credits (Directed by Vern Diamond, Written by Joel Heller and Charles Osgood, but unfortunately space constraints prevent us from including them all here)

"The real monster is the director."

This aired on local Chicago TV on Friday, October 23rd 1981 during the 7:00pm to 8:00pm timeframe.

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