One of the things about Stop Motion was that it was both time-consuming and expensive. As a result, a lot of these movies ended up having B or C-list casts. Had This Island Earth and The Forbidden Planet--two notorious big-budget flops of their day--been more successful, then perhaps we would've gotten more movies in which producers were willing to splurge on both the FX budget and the cast. If Irwin Allen, for example, wanted to make The Lost World with an all-star cast, then most likely he would have devoted much of the budget to them instead of the effects.Southern Mammoth wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 2:22 pm Another overlooked example are the dimetrodons in Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I'm fairly shore one is stabbed in the mouth with a mini-spear given its reaction.
As someone said above this was often not done because anyone though it was more realistic, most stop motion films of the time put them to shame. I was done purely for budget reasons, or just to be cheap. That said is all shows a clear lack of caring for the animels well being.
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) actually an Oscar nod for Best Special Effects, but ended up losing to Ben-Hur.