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Article:
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Date: 5/18/08
Year: 1961
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Mothra
(1961) |
Company:
GoodTimes Home Video Corp. (1988)
Country: United States
Category: Slip Cover
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| As
with most GoodTimes releases, this Mothra
(1961) cover is an eye catching drawing of the adult
Mothra climbing over the ruins of Tokyo Tower. Flames
lick the bottom of the cover as explosions erupt beneath
the demonic visage of Mothra. The sides of the cover
have nothing special, just a continuation of the artwork
from the front of the vhs. The back has two impressive
pictures topping the synopsis outline. One is the
larva form, now covered over with a green skin tone,
and the other is of the all the scientist in their
suits, huddled around the infant girls. Most of the
writing is correct in the paragraph summary of the
movie ,with the exception of the goof of calling the
twin girls the “Ailenas". |
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Mothra
(1961) |
Company:
GoodTimes Home Video Corp. (1988)
Country: United States
Category: Slip Cover
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A variant
cover released by GoodTimes, and apparently the inspiration
for the design of the Columbia/TriStar release several
years later, this box adopts the red Mothra text from
the other GoodTimes release of this movie. It also
uses the same basic image from the Columbia/TriStar
release, which looks to be an altered version of this
image. Unlike the Columbia/TriStar release, this
box includes the text "A Sci-Fi Classic!"
and the amusing "An Atomic Blast Releases a Giant
Moth that Devastates Tokyo!" on the cover. Thus
the image of the citywide destruction is cropped closer
to the monster moth on this box.
The biggest difference from the other releases of
this film on video is the use of one big shot of the
Mothra larva (in black-and-white) attacking a ship,
rather than color shots on the other boxes. The synopsis
and cast and crew text on the back is identical to
that on the other GoodTimes release, and thus includes
the same use of the now-obsolete term "Ailenas",
and the misspelled "Inoshiro" Honda. Some
of the other text has very minor variations from the
alternate GT release, however; for example, on this
box when listing the length of the film, "approximately"
is abbreviated, whereas it is not on the other release,
and some of the text below giving information about
GoodTimes Home Video has been shuffled or resized. |
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Mothra
(1961) |
Company:
Columbia/Tristar Home Video (1993)
Country: United States
Category: Slip Cover
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| The
1993 VHS of Mothra
(1961) features a nice shot of Mothra flying over
a destroyed bridge on the front cover. Her colors
may be off, but it is a rather nice picture nonetheless.
The sides of the release are both the same, featuring
a smaller image of the same cover shot with the green
text of Mothra in the center. The back features a
rather accurate synopsis with only one rather notable
mistake, that being the naming of the Shobojin, which
are called the "Ailenas" in the synopsis.
The back also features three images from the movie,
the first being the crew looking at the two twins,
with the other two featuring the larval form of Mothra
attacking. For some reason, the larva has been recolored
green for the pictures. |
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Yojimbo
(1961) |
Company:
Embassy Home Entertainment (1986)
Country: United States
Category: Slip Cover
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| The
cover image to this Embassy release of Kurosawa's
classic features a nice black-and-white cropped still
of actor Toshiro
Mifune about to release his considerable wrath
on someone offscreen. The Yojimbo
(1961) text font utilized is made to roughly simulate
Japanese calligraphy, which also seems to be the aim
of the lone green splotch running through Mifune's
head. The praise quote on the cover from Variety
is somewhat confusing, labeling the movie "one
of the greatest outdoor action pictures"--which
would imply that there are also indoor action pictures,
but I've never heard the genre delineated in that
fashion outside of this quote.
The back cover design continues the stark ethos
from the front, with a black background and more
splotches of pseudo-calligraphic color. Three stills
from the movie highlight Mifune again. The synopsis
text is rather poor and awkwardly written and gives
away the ending. The text also makes the claim that
Yojimbo
(1961) is parodying a classic Western story--a curious
statement since it was a classic Western (A
Fistful of Dollars (1964)) that would eventually
be made from Yojimbo
(1961). |
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