> The stock footage issue in Godzilla's Revenge continued throughout most > of the 1970s Godzilla films. When making Godzilla vs. Gigan, Toho > tightened the purse strings even further: the soundtrack, by Akira > Ifukube, is actually made up of parts of Ifukube's scores to various > other Toho films, such as Atragon, Destroy All Monsters, Frankenstein > Conquers the World, and Latitude Zero. Yes, and the theme music comes off Yoshimitsu Banno's _Birth of the Japanese Islands_. Banno is under contract to direct three films for Toho before he can be a freelance director, but he prefers writing and assistant directing, so he's done a lot of animation scripts, including the 1982 _The Wizard of Oz_, and they never required him to, just made it a stipulation for going elsewhere. Scott ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite