Shodai Godzilla Promotional Still

初代ゴジラの宣伝スチールでは、ゴジラの吐く白熱光を、スチールマンの田中一清氏が自分でタバコの煙を吹いて撮影したものがある。スチールの口部分に穴を開けて噴き出したのだ。前代未聞の怪物が主役の映画とあって、街を歩き暴れ回る姿をコラージュしたりと田中スチールマンも苦労したようだ。その甲斐あって数々の傑作スチールを今も見られる。

In the first Godzilla promotion picture, Godzilla’s incandescent light was photographed by Mr. Kazuki Tanaka, a still photographer, by blowing cigarette smoke himself. I made a hole in the mouth of the still and spouted it. It seems that photographer Tanaka also had a hard time in collaging the appearance of Godzilla walking around the city and rampaging because it was an unprecedented monster leading movie. The results are worth it, and many still photography masterpieces can still be seen.

[Kazukiyo Tanaka (Kazukiyo Tanaka, 1914-December 25, 1999) is a still photographer in Japanese cinema. He is from Toyama prefecture. Source: Wikipedia]

Source: 初代ゴジラ研究読本 (洋社泉, p 161)