Scenes from ATLANTIS - THE LOST CONTINENT (1961)
This movie is filled with special effects so it's difficult to cover it all. For today, I'll only write about the sinking of Atlantis. Made with models, it's a fairly well made scene but all too brief. Many scenes were taken from the burning of Rome from QUO VADIS (1951) edited in between these model shots. I always like special effects with models when I was a kid (I would think they were expensive toys back then) and, for the most part, I still like them as an adult but scenes like these are always missing humans running about in terror or jumping off a building. They're always devoid of the presence of people. It's still pretty cool to watch.
Despite its flaws, for example the asiatic costumes of some atlanteans, this is a great movie. It only lacked the Atlantean attack on early Athens.
ReplyDeleteWatching on the big screen in our local theater when I was young made up for this movie's shortcomings The destruction scenes where magnificent.
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