February 21, 1967 –
One Million Years B.C., starring Raquel Welch, her pre-historic brassière and a bunch of dinosaur puppets, premiered in the US on this date.
Ray Harryhausen used his “Dynamation” stop-motion animation special effects technique in this film, but because producer Charles H. Schneer owned the brand name, Hammer Films could not use it in their marketing for it. However, producer Michael Carreras wanted to come up with a similar-sounding name for the process. After originally planning on shooting the film in Panavision (to which Harryhausen objected, as he, director Don Chaffey, and director of photography Wilkie Cooper preferred the regular spherical process that was favored by Harryhausen), Carreras, Hammer and 20th Century Fox attempted an amalgamation of the Panavision and Dynamation brand names into a new one, “Giant Panamation“. However, the “Giant Panamation” name was dropped when the Panavision company objected to it. Some early press material for the film, however, did use the name.
The Haus of Dcaligari 