The Pictorial Book of Godzilla
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The Pictorial Book of Godzilla (大ゴジラ図鑑 is a Dai Gojira Zukan, lit. Giant Godzilla Pictorial Book)1995 informational book which features behind the scenes images and stills from Godzilla to Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.
Information
The book was published on January 27, 1995 by Hobby Japan Co., Ltd.[1] It was authored by Masami Yamada, supervised by Yuji Nishimura, and published with Koichi Sato.
Description
Japanese description from BOOK Database:
Japanese description from MARC Database:
Contents
To be added.
Godzilla Movie Color Graffiti
The beginning of the book contains a brief description for all the Showa and Heisei Godzilla movies (except Godzilla vs. Destoroyah) with color images.
Introduction
Contains an introduction to Godzilla, all of the different eras of Godzilla, the release timeline of the movies along with the names of the Godzilla suits and the other monsters introduced in each movie.
This section also defines all the terminology and subsections that will be used in the book, such as "SET," "BODY," "FACE," "POOL," "MAKING," "BEHIND," "EXHIBITION," "AnotherG" (used for the sections for Gomess and Jirass) and "VariationG" (variations of Godzilla like Little Godzilla or Fake Godzilla)
Films
The Pictorial Book of Godzilla contains a collective 1100 images[1] along with behind the scenes information from the following films. Each film is found within a section, them being "The Dawn" (1954-1962), "Golden Age" (1964-1966), "Maturity" (1967-1972), "Revival" (1973-1984), and "Renewal" (1989-1994).
The Dawn
- Godzilla
- Godzilla Raids Again
- Gigantis, the Fire Monster
- Making the Gigantis, the Fire Monster Godzilla suit from 1957, the story behind the unmade American edit
- Filming, publicity, making of the Godzilla suit, plus "Snowman vs. Godzilla" images
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
Golden Age
- Mothra vs. Godzilla
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- Invasion of Astro-Monster
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Maturity
Revival
Renewal
- Godzilla vs. Biollante
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
- Godzilla vs. Mothra
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
Gallery
References
This is a list of references for The Pictorial Book of Godzilla. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]