History Film / Creation1931

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Elaine Armitage’s scenes all revolve around Steve and Hallet.
* StockDinosaurs: We have our typical dinosaurs with T-Rex, Brontosaurus and Triceratops. Understandable, given that a lot of the dinosaur species we know today weren’t discovered yet.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Thornton Armitage.

* AdultFear: Trapped on an island that’s literally exploding all around you with your kids isn’t exactly a pretty way to go.

* BadassMustache: In the concept art, it seems a lot of the time Hallet has a mustache even though in the finished test footage he doesn’t have one.

* InvincibleHero: Steve. He’s always right, knows more about the wildlife and survival then anyone else, gets the girl, always escapes death and in the concept art is drawn as looking dashing and handsome.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The Arsinoitherium is described as being the size of “20 elephants, even though in reality it would’ve actually been smaller than modern elephants.

Presumed lost, some test footage of the film was discovered to have survived. The screenplay also survived and both were unveiled during the anniversary of ''King Kong'' by future remake director Creator/PeterJackson. The test footage can be seen [[https://youtu.be/tPRV4Ak6Sxg here]] but [[Main/SoBadItsGood the really fun part]] is the story treatment which can be seen read aloud [[https://youtu.be/JqYwlJbdad0 here]] in all it’s cheesy glory.

Presumed lost, some test footage of the film was discovered to have survived. The screenplay also survived and both were unveiled during the anniversary of ''King Kong'' by future remake director Creator/PeterJackson. The test footage can be seen [[https://youtu.be/tPRV4Ak6Sxg here]] but [[Main/SoBadItsGood the really fun part]] is the script which can be seen read aloud [[https://youtu.be/JqYwlJbdad0 here]] in all it’s cheesy glory.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Well duh.

* CaptainObvious: The screenplay points out the blatantly obvious in a lot of places.

* GainaxEnding: The island blows up taking all the prehistoric life with it yet our protagonists survive.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Elaine Armitage’s scenes all revovle around Steve and Hallet.
* StockDinosaurs: We have our typical dinosaurs with T-Rex, Brontosaurus and Triceratops. Understandable given that a lot of the dinosaur species we know today weren’t discovered yet.

* BoringInvincibleHero: Steve full stop. He’s always right, knows more about the wildlife and survival then anyone else, get’s the girl, always escapes death and in the concept art is drawn as looking dashing and handsome.

‘’Creation’’ is an [[WhatCouldHaveBeen unfinished film]] from 1931 by Willis O’Brien and Merian C. Cooper. Essentially it’s about a rich family who get stranded with a Chillean submarine crew on an island of prehistoric animals and try to survive on it before the island blows itself up.

!!''Creation (1931)'' contains examples of:

The film was scrapped by Cooper himself and producer David O. Selznick, who deemed it too boring and lacking in action. O’Brien and Cooper would later team up on a much more successful project that DID end up getting finished. What film was that? ‘’[[Film/KingKong1933 King Kong]]’’. In fact a lot of ideas and concepts from this made it into Kong.

Presumed lost, some test footage of the film was discovered to have survived. The screenplay also survived and both were unveiled during the anniversary of ‘’King Kong’’ by future remake director Creator/PeterJackson. The test footage can be seen [[https://youtu.be/tPRV4Ak6Sxg here]] but [[Main/SoBadItsGood the really fun part]] is the script which can be seen read aloud [[https://youtu.be/JqYwlJbdad0 here]] in all it’s cheesy glory.

* ArtisticLicenseScience: Well duh.

* ArtisticLiscenceScience: Well duh.

* StockDinosaurs: We have our typical dinosaurs with T-Rex, Brontosaurus and Triceratops. Understandable given that a lot of the dinosaur species we know today weren’t discovered yet.
* UnexpectedCharacter: More like an unexpected species but the appearence of Arsinotherium is surprising all the dinosaurs on display.

* StockDinosaurs: We have our typical dinosaurs with T-Rex, Brontosaurus and Triceratops. Understandable given that a lot of the dinosaur species we know today weren’t discovered yet.

* BoringInvincableHero: Steve full stop. He’s always right, knows more about the wildlife and survival then anyone else, get’s the girl, always escapes death and in the concept art is drawn as looking dashing and handsome.

* GaryStu: Steve full stop. He’s always right, knows more about the wildlife and survival then anyone else, get’s the girl, always escapes death and in the concept art is drawn as looking dashing and handsome.

Presumed lost, some test footage of the film was discovered to have survived. The screenplay also survived and both were unveiled during the anniversary of ‘’King Kong’’ by future remake director Creator/PeterJackson. The test footage can be seen here but [[Main/SoBadItsGood the really fun part]] is the script which can be seen read aloud here in all it’s cheesy glory.

Presumed lost, some test footage of the film was discovered to have survived. The screenplay also survived and both were unveiled during the anniversary of ‘’King Kong’’. The test footage can be seen here but [[Main/SoBadItsGood the really fun part]] is the script which can be seen read aloud here in all it’s cheesy glory.

* Stock Dinosaurs: We have our typical dinosaurs with T-Rex, Brontosaurus and Triceratops. Understandable given that a lot of the dinosaur species we know today weren’t discovered yet.