"One Million B.C." was released in 1940 and was the father of "Two Lost Worlds" you could say since much of that film was simply a clone of "One Million B.C." Mostly via using stock footage from the film for the majority of its dinosaur scenes leaving the audience feeling a sense of Deja Vu and likely some feeling of money wasted. The most drawing thing for this film was its trailers claiming the use of live dinosaurs for the film, this was done in the movie, as stated in my prior topic, by using a technique of enlarging living lizards which they then attached various accessories to in order to make it look more dinosaur like. The fight scenes in this movie were filmed with these living lizards facing each other leaving you with an intense battle....but also one dead lizard in real life. This is since the FX shots simply involved letting the lizards fight to the death and filming it as one slowly died leaving the other victorious.As impressive and powerful as it is to consider in the abstract, watching a giant Iguana have its throat torn-out becomes simply horrifying once you realize that it’s really happening, no trick of the camera or fx just pure cruelty toward the animals in the film. The film was the first to use these techniques and one of the first creators of the a-typical good tribe/bad tribe scenario and the volcano that's always ready to destroy the island by the end of the film. The volcano scene leads to even more lizard deaths via rock crushing and falls off crumbling cliffs (more like throws)... and this is what makes this film so upsetting to talk about. Luckily laws have been put in place to protect these animals now. Regardless of these facts, which likely weren't known when it was released, the catch worked and this film was the #1 Box Office attraction of 1940 ignoring roll overs like the re-release of "Gone With The Wind" the same year
I cannot find a trailer but I found one of the gruesome battle scenes in the film
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