Tarantula!
Every time I see this thing I'm taken back to 1955 and my Saturday Matinee days. I can't help seeing the atomic mutated Giant Tarantula menacing everyone from the movie "Tarantula!"
Tarantula! is a 1955 American science-fiction, giant monster film from Universal-International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold, and starred John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco's teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode, "No Food for Thought", also directed by Arnold. I loved Topper, (Leo G. Carroll) as the must have mad scientist.
This tarantula is actually the Ecosystem Exploration Craft & Observatory. In its former life, it was the stage for U2’s renowned 360° Tour, one of the largest traveling stages in rock history, and now has a permanent home at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium. EECO and the Rio Tinto Kennecott Plaza provide new opportunities to explore and learn, as well as space for private parties and special events such as Nights Under Lights, where EECO lights up the night sky as guests look on. Cool and all but to me it still makes me think of that giant tarantula from the fifties!
Info Courtesy: Wikipedia and Loveland Living Planet Aquarium
Tarantula!
Every time I see this thing I'm taken back to 1955 and my Saturday Matinee days. I can't help seeing the atomic mutated Giant Tarantula menacing everyone from the movie "Tarantula!"
Tarantula! is a 1955 American science-fiction, giant monster film from Universal-International, produced by William Alland, directed by Jack Arnold, and starred John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll. The screenplay by Robert M. Fresco and Martin Berkeley was based on a story by Arnold, which was in turn inspired by Fresco's teleplay for the 1955 Science Fiction Theatre episode, "No Food for Thought", also directed by Arnold. I loved Topper, (Leo G. Carroll) as the must have mad scientist.
This tarantula is actually the Ecosystem Exploration Craft & Observatory. In its former life, it was the stage for U2’s renowned 360° Tour, one of the largest traveling stages in rock history, and now has a permanent home at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium. EECO and the Rio Tinto Kennecott Plaza provide new opportunities to explore and learn, as well as space for private parties and special events such as Nights Under Lights, where EECO lights up the night sky as guests look on. Cool and all but to me it still makes me think of that giant tarantula from the fifties!
Info Courtesy: Wikipedia and Loveland Living Planet Aquarium