CREATURE Color photo fun for everyone! LOOK HERE!

[Richard]

Hi all~
I never thought I'd see these kind of pics!
How's this for a "find"?
Now we can all paint our Aurora Creature correctly 
Too cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
enjoy!
Best,
Richard

http://images.google.com/images?q=gill+man&q=source:life

[Jim Bertges]

His lips are so......red....

These are incredible. Where have they been hiding all these years? It looks like they were shot on the back lot at Universal.

[raycastile]

Red lips and gold highlights on his scales and fins.  Personally, I have always preferred a red-lipped Creature.

[Richard]

I never thought I'd see such fine color photos of the Creature! Now if Life Magazine could only spit out a print of "London after Midnight" I'd be really happy!     

How about some nice shots of Forry Ackerman in his younger days...

http://images.google.com/images?q=ackerman+source%3Alife&btnG=Search+Images&hl=en&safe=off&sa=2

Love this site!

[Kharis]

Way cool photos, so pristine.  The Gill Man's lips were indeed red.  I don't like it, but how can you argue with photographic evidence.  Adams looks pretty alluring, dosn't she?  No wonder The Creature was attrated to her.

[Richard]

I've never seen the Xenomorph this clear before!
NICE!

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=xenomorph+source%3Alife&btnG=Search+Images

[MonsterArt]

For years I didn't think the lips were actually red, because of the color photo Tom Case (original Creature suit painter) had given me which showed Ricou on the water tank at Universal, ready to shoot test footage. The lips are not red in that photo. But they must have added the red for the mouth later.

The odd part is, I could swear that Benny Chapman said the lips were not red when they were filming. Hmmmm.

[Toy Ranch]

Tooo cool.



Amazing shot!

[Scary Terry]

These are great -- though the color looks a bit faded -- there's a pink/purple thing going on there and a decided lack of green.  There have been color pics published elsewhere that are NOT faded -- but because of the red lips controversy, people insist they are tinted B&W shots -- but  I've never bought into that - as they've always looked like sharp Kodachrome images to me.  There's a pic on the back cover of CINEFANTASTIQUE vol 4 #2 (Phantom of the Paradise issue) that I'll scan and share in just a bit. 

Could it be that there were multiple suits/masks -- and only the one used for publicity shots had the painted lips?

[Kharis]

Perhaps they were altered at a later date?  Yet more mystery.



In any case, very cool.

[Wich2]

I'd second what Terry just said: there's been a serious loss of green in that pic - look at those trees.

Factor that back in, and the lips might be a less pronounced red.

Best,
-Craig W.

[Toy Ranch]

Since the film was intended to be black and white from the start, the colors used in it I consider to be less relevant than the colors in the color publicity shots, as that is the image intended to be conveyed as the color of the Creature.  The movie poster, the Mechanix Illustrated cover, and these photos all show the Creature with bright red lips, so I say that nevermind what the suit created for use in black and white film may have been colored, these are the correct colors for the Creature when rendered in color.

[Toy Ranch]

I took the magenta out of that photo and came up with this.

[Scary Terry]

Here's the Cinefantastique image.

[Scary Terry]

And a detail shot of the face.