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La Carcagne

I've toned down the claims regarding "La Carcagne" being an actual monster from French-Canadian folklore made in the article; that's what the movie claims, not something verified by outside sources on French-Canadian folklore. I trust we're not going to use a Hollywood B-movie as a credible source on what's actually in Fr-Canadian folklore. I've read several books on French-Canadian folklore (including the works of ethnologist JC Dupont, who has made the collection of French-Canadian and French-American myths his life work), and I have yet to encounter anything named La Carcagne, or indeed anything about a banshee-like flying monster. Or any sort of named flying monster.--Guillaume Hébert-Jodoin (talk) 18:31, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

The myth of La Carcagne appears to appear only in "The Giant Claw". However, there is a family and at least one registered yacht named Carcagne. I will assume in lack of further evidence that it was an in-joke by the screen writer. --Naaman Brown (talk) 18:04, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

It does appear that "La Carcagne" is mentioned in a short story by Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958) "Grandfather and a Winter's Tale", short story, The New Yorker, 20 Jan 1951. The story may be in Adams' "Grandfather Tales" book -- a good excuse to go the library tomorrow. It would be nice to find evidence that the screenwriters were aware of, or influenced by, Adams. --Naaman Brown (talk) 02:21, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Stock Footage

Includes snips from better special effects movies, including Harryhausen's Earth v the Flying Saucers (collapse of Washington Monument) and Pal's War of the Worlds (explosion of Los Angeles City Hall building) representing buildings in NYC. However, that is so typical of 1950s B movies, I wonder if it deserves mention in the article. Naaman Brown (talk) 12:19, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

17,000,000 BC reference

I can't verify this. I've just watched the movie and did not catch anything like that in the dialogue. I'm removing the following words until such a time as they can be substantiated: "(and then later from the year 17,000,000 B.C.)". If I've somehow missed these words, please tell us at what point they occur in the movie. Metamagician3000 (talk) 12:43, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

The lobby card (small poster) used for the movie declares "Winged Monster from 17,000,000 B.C.!" but like you, I don't recall that mentioned in the narration or dialogue. Low budget 1950s movies were notorioius for advertising that did not match the movies. --Naaman Brown (talk) 02:33, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Rewrite

Most of this article excluding the plot, is written in a style that reflects more personal opinion than the required encyclopedic tone, also the whole article is poorly written and developed and should be rewritten entirely and expanded.--Paleface Jack (talk) 16:09, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

I do not agree at all, and neither do other editors who have worked on the article. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 01:27, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Particle physics

My Saturday night Creature Features recollection is that characters make mention of "mu mesons" or "mu mesonic" matter. The former was an early designation for the muon itself (a taxonomic error; muons are leptons and fermionic; mesons are hadrons and are bosonic) and the latter refers to matter that has one or more muons in place of electrons. While muons have corresponding anti-particles, neither muons nor mu mesic atoms are antimatter. Rt3368 (talk) 06:23, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Rodan influence

The idea that Rodan influenced The Giant Claw deserves greater scrutiny. Rodan was released in Japan on December 26, 1956, while production on The Giant Claw began on February 1, 1957. That's an incredibly short window of time for Sam Katzman to find out about a monster movie released halfway around the world and decide to make his own version. I am also not aware of any primary source that cites Rodan as an influence on Claw.--AstoundingBB (talk) 11:01, 10 June 2022 (UTC)