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Article:
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Date: 5/18/08
Year: 1964
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Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) |
Company:
Paramount Home Video (1989)
Country:
United States
Category:
Slip Cover |
| Apparently
the 2nd of 5 Godzilla films obtained by Paramount
for release between 1988-1989, this particular cover
shows scenes from the film on both the front and back.
The 2-sentence blurb basically gives away the ending
of the film, while strangely referring to Mothra only
in regard to the larvae. |
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Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) |
Company:
Paramount/Gateway (1994)
Country:
United States
Category:
Slip Cover |
| The
front cover of this release features an artist's rendition
of Godzilla and Mothra fighting above the Infant Island
shoreline. However, the film's epic battle never took
place anywhere near Mothra's home! The illustration
of Godzilla is too far removed in appearance from
his onscreen counterpart, and vaunts the ever-notorious
greenish coloration. The atomic ray is yellow and
outlined in red, a far cry from the traditional blue
beam. As for Mothra, if you look closely at her mouth,
it looks as though she has a bird beak instead of
her usual mandibles (although the details are very
fine, and could be interpreted otherwise). At the
bottom of the scene, some of the natives are cheering
for Mothra while others take to the seas in what can
only be described as an attempt to help their insectile
guardian (as if they could take on a giant monster)!
Each side of the box displays a thumbnail version
of the art work from the front cover (devoid of
the film's title) and features the recurring phrase,
‘Monster Classic’.
On the back is a picture of Junko Nakanishi, Ichiro
Sakai, Professor Miura, and the Shobijin. Centered
within a red circle directly underneath is a summary
of the film that manages to reveal several important
details about the movie (despite its brevity). |
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Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) |
Company:
Simitar Entertainment, Inc. (1998)
Country:
United States
Category:
Slip Cover |
| Simitar's
standard EP release of Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) boasts exciting, epic,
and imaginative artwork that really steals the show
and makes this a visually enticing edition to any
collection. The rear is dotted with several still
shots from the film, showing off the titular monsters
and the tiny twin fairies. The synopsis is rather
accurate, although the "40-story high" comment
as well as the incorrect rendering of Ishiro
Honda's name are both flaws worth mentioning. |
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Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) |
Company:
Simitar Entertainment, Inc. (1998)
Country:
United States
Category:
Slip Cover
- DIGITALLY REMASTERED
EDITION - |
| Recorded
in SP mode, this video features two modest bonus features:
an added art gallery and a Godzilla trailer collection.
The case displays uncropped artwork that rolls onto
the sides and a fleshy background on the rear cover,
which pretty much sums up all the differences between
this version and the digitally un-remastered release
of the same year. |
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Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) |
Company:
Simitar Entertainment, Inc. (1998)
Country:
United States
Category:
Slip Cover
- WIDESCREEN EDITION
- |
| Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) is one of several Godzilla
movies released by Simitar in 1998, presumably to
cash in on the American GODZILLA
(1998). The cover art for this release is less than
stellar, featuring a generic green Godzilla and a
Mothra that vaguely resembles the Showa incarnation.
The title is broken up into two parts, with “Godzilla”
in large letters across the top and “Versus
Mothra” down at the bottom in smaller print.
Two stickers on the box tout it as “The Original
1964 Classic!” and having “Godzilla’s
Stomp of Approval”. A bar at the top of the
cover states that this is a “Digitally Remastered
Widescreen Version”. Surprisingly, this is completely
true, as it utilizes the same widescreen print as
the DVD Simitar released of the movie at the same
time. The sides of the case differ slightly from each
other: the left side has a small picture of Godzilla,
while the right side has a small picture of Mothra.
Both pictures are taken from the cover artwork, and
both sides display the title of the VHS. The back
side has a mostly accurate synopsis, aside from claiming
Mothra and her fairies are from Monster Island. Of
interesting note is the bonus content on the VHS,
which plays after the movie ends and consists of trailers
from the Simitar Godzilla movies released in 1998
(Godzilla
(1954),
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Invasion
of Astro-Monster (1965), All
Monsters Attack (1969) and Terror
of Mechagodzilla (1975)) and a collection
of stills from (strangely) Godzilla
vs Biollante (1989) and Godzilla
vs. King Ghidorah (1991) and the artwork
used for their VHS and DVD releases. |
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Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964) |
Company:
Filmax Home Video (1998)
Country: Spain
Category: Clam Shell
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| A rather
nice drawing of Godzilla battling Mothra is used as
the front cover for Filmax's release of Mothra
vs. Godzilla (1964). Strangely though, Godzilla's
appearance resembles more his Heisei counterpart,
suggesting the drawing might have been intended for
the 1992 film. Nevertheless, it serves its purpose.
As usual with Filmax, the synopsis in the back (which
labels Mothra as a "Defender of the Country")
is quite vague, and we are presented with some stills
of the movie as well as a theatrical poster. Full
credit is given to the cast and crew. The film is
presented in its original aspect ratio, with a decent
quality for a VHS. Like other Filmax releases, the
only real problem with it is the ear-harming dub. |
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Ghidorah,
the Three-Headed Monster (1964) |
Company:
Video Treasures, Inc. (1988)
Country:
United States
Category:
Slip Cover |
| The
artist's conception on the front features a "fuzzy"
Godzilla among the other featured monsters. The description
on the back references Ghidrah spewing forth "flames",
and that Princess Salno of Selgina is from a country
"between two worlds", to which I have no
idea what they are referring unless it is Earth and
Mars (or possibly, it could reference Selgina's struggle
to align itself with either the First or Second Worlds
from a political standpoint). It's a good thing most
people don't read these descriptions before they watch
the film. |
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Ghidorah,
the Three-Headed Monster (1964) |
Company:
Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc. (1997)
Country:
United States
Category:
Slip Cover |
| As with
the rest of Anchor Bay’s Godzilla releases from
this time, the cover of Ghidorah,
the Three-Headed Monster (1964) utilizes
stills from The
Return of Godzilla (1984). The front of the
case has a picture of King Ghidorah superimposed over
a translucent picture of the 1984 Godzilla with flame
effects at the bottom and a building in the background.
The left side of the case has a picture of Godzilla’s
head taken from the poster for The
Return of Godzilla (1984) near the top with
the title of the VHS written down the side. The entire
right side of the case is part of the poster for The
Return of Godzilla (1984) as well. Each of
Anchor Bay’s Godzilla releases had a different
section of the poster, which, when they were all lined
up in the proper order, would form the whole poster.
The back of the case has a picture of Godzilla fighting
King Ghidorah and a very short synopsis that comes
in at a whopping two sentences in length. |
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