The Pictorial Book of Godzilla
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The Pictorial Book of Godzilla (大ゴジラ図鑑 is an informational book which features behind the scenes images and stills from Dai Gojira Zukan, lit. Giant Godzilla Pictorial Book)Godzilla to Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. It was released by Hobby Japan on January 27, 1995.[1]
Information
The book was published on January 27, 1995 by Hobby Japan Co., Ltd. It was authored by Masami Yamada, supervised by Yuji Nishimura, and published with Koichi Sato.
Description
Japanese description from BOOK Database:
"ゴジラ生誕40周年記念豪華写真集堂々完成。第1作「ゴジラ」から最新「ゴジラvsスペースゴジラ」まで21作品10系統30種以上のゴジラが集結した怪獣造形・究極の40年史。"[1]
Japanese description from MARC Database:
"第1作「ゴジラ」から最新作「ゴジラVSスペースゴジラ」まで、21作品10系統30種類以上のゴジラが集結した怪獣造形・究極の40年史。写真1100点収録。東宝特殊美術の裏舞台、映画データ、ゴジラのすべてがわかる。"[1]
Contents
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:
- Godzilla
- Godzilla Raids Again
- Filming, publicity, making of the Godzilla suit, the Gigantis, the Fire Monster Godzilla suit from 1957, plus "Snowman vs. Godzilla" images
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Mothra vs. Godzilla
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- Invasion of Astro-Monster
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
- Son of Godzilla
- Destroy All Monsters
- All Monsters Attack
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah
- Godzilla vs. Gigan
- Godzilla vs. Megalon
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
- Terror of Mechagodzilla
- The Return of Godzilla
- Godzilla vs. Biollante
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
- Godzilla vs. Mothra
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
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]