![]() In the underwater scenes, air was fed into the Gill-man suit with a rubber hose. Part of the film was shot in Jacksonville, Florida on the south side of the river near the foot of the old Acosta Bridge. The underwater sequences were filmed at Wakulla Springs in northern Florida (today a state park), as were many of the rear projection images. The Gill-man suit was made from airtight molded sponge rubber and cost $15,000. The designer of the approved Gill-man was former Disney illustrator Milicent Patrick, though her role was deliberately downplayed by makeup artist Bud Westmore, who for half a century would receive sole credit for the Gill-man's conception. Originally, the Gill-man's design was meant to incorporate a sleek, feminine eel-like figure, which did not have as many bumps and gills as the final version. Alland said: "It would still frighten you, but because how human it was, not the other way around". William Alland envisioned the Gill-man as a "sad, beautiful monster" and the sculpture of it was much like that of an aquatic development of a human. There were various designs for the Gill-man. Alland then wrote story notes titled "The Sea Monster" 10 years later. Figueroa spoke of a friend of his who disappeared in the Amazon while filming a documentary on a rumored population of fish-people. Producer William Alland was attending a dinner party during the filming of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (in which Alland played the reporter Thompson) in 1941 when Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa told him about the myth of a race of half-fish, half-human creatures in the Amazon River. Milicent Patrick, adding some final touches to Ricou Browning's underwater Gill-man mask. ![]() ![]() Despite this popularity, the Gill-man appeared in the fewest movies of all the Universal Classic Monsters. The Gill-man's popularity as an iconic monster of cinema has led to numerous cameo appearances, including an episode of The Munsters (1965), the motion picture The Monster Squad (1987), a stage show (2009), and a reimagining in 2017's The Shape of Water. In the scenes when the Gill-man is walking on dry land, Ben Chapman performed the Gill-man in the first film, followed by Tom Hennesy in the second, and Don Megowan in the third. In all three films, Ricou Browning portrays the Gill-man when he is swimming underwater. The Gill-man-commonly called the Creature-is the main antagonist of the 1954 black-and-white science fiction film Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956). The Gill-man as portrayed by Ricou Browning in Creature from the Black Lagoon. ![]()
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