In the first episode of a new series where we look at the impact of kaiju throughout the world, we kick things off in the United Kingdom!

Transcript: https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Wikizilla:YouTube/Monster_Planet:_United_Kingdom

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Timestamps —
Intro - 0:00
How Did You Discover Godzilla? - 1:04
The Early Years - 3:45
The 70s and 80s - 9:10
The 90s and 00s - 11:25
The Kaiju Renaissance - 14:11

FURTHER READING/VIEWING/LISTENING:
• Kaijusaurus Podcast: https://www.breaker.audio/kaijusaurus-podcast
• Biorante: https://biorante.co.uk
• Hamish Steele official site: https://hamishsteele.co.uk/
• UK Kaiju Convention official site: http://ukkaiju.com/
• Excerpt from Mark Kermode's essay "The British Censors and Horror Cinema": https://books.google.com/books?id=H21BB8SZuyQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Monsters from an Unknown Culture: Godzilla (and Friends) in Britain 1957-1980: http://www.smguariento.com/monsters-from-an-unknown-culture-godzilla-and-friends-in-britain-1957-1980-by-sim-branaghan-part-1/
• Gorgo on Mystery Science Theater 3000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6NWEmwunmg
Read Charlton's Gorgo and Konga comics at Comic Book Plus: https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=764, https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=765
• Read "The Voice in the Night" by William Hope Hodgson: http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2007/03/22/a-more-interesting-reality-than-ours-a-close-look-at-matango/
• Nessie mentioned in A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer by Denis Meikle and Christopher T. Koetting (page 221): https://books.google.com/books?id=80b7V1AwF4UC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Nessie: The Kaiju That Hammer Locked Away panel at G-Fest XXVI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUTpb63L_EA
https://maserpatrol.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/nessie-panel-final-2.pdf
• DeadLoch (Nessie episode of Godzilla: The Series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCvSRc5CgYA
• Queen Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3UzzbCqHf0
• Footage pertaining to the Video Recordings Act 1984 comes from the documentaries Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape and Video Nasties: Draconian Days, available to stream on Shudder.
• Godzilla 1985 BBFC case study: https://bbfc.co.uk/case-studies/godzilla-1985
• Ted Thomas interviews and voice reel: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmxy3e • https://vantagepointinterviews.com/2017/05/17/man-of-a-thousand-voices-hong-kong-voice-actor-ted-thomas-on-his-prolific-dubbing-career/ • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OiZeImBmws
• Investigations into the Sandy Frank dubbers: https://dubbing.fandom.com/wiki/Gamera, https://forrestcrow.proboards.com/thread/21406/dubbers-sandy-frank-productions
• Soundtrack for the UK Special Edition of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYSkBf0NQNg&list=PLGlMaE-UYVUa3KypPWMjH0m6VrLz_4fSY
• Retyped SFX article on the UK Special Edition of Gamera: Guardian of the Universe: http://www.scifijapan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=413&p=3744
• BBC Godzilla, King of the Monsters documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxBzx2zAsw
• Steven Sloss's Shin Godzilla article for the Glasgow Film Festival: https://kaijusaurus.tumblr.com/post/157703135884/i-wrote-an-article-on-shin-godzilla-and-its-place

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