July 13, 1960 –
20th Century Fox released the sci-fi adventure film The Lost World (based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle), directed by Irwin Allen and starring Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, Claude Rains and Fernando Lamas (who looked marvelous), to U.S. theaters on this date.
Director Irwin Allen wanted to use stop-motion dinosaurs for this film, but due to budget reasons he had to use lizards – mainly monitor lizards – as dinosaurs. Plastic horns and spikes were attached to them to make them look more like dinosaurs. The technique will later be dubbed Slurpasaur by fans.
The Haus of Dcaligari 