Posted on 05/02/2017 2:53:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 30ft (9m) model of the Loch Ness Monster built in 1969 for a Sherlock Holmes movie has been found almost 50 years after it sank in the loch.
The beast was created for the Billy Wilder-directed The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, starring Sir Robert Stephens and Sir Christopher Lee.
It has been seen for the first time in images captured by an underwater robot.
Loch Ness expert Adrian Shine said the shape, measurements and location pointed to the object being the prop.
The robot, operated by Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime, is being used to investigate what lies in the depths of Loch Ness.
VisitScotland and Mr Shine's The Loch Ness Project, which gathers scientific information on the loch's ecology and the potential for a monster, is supporting the survey.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
This article’s from 2016.
Looks almost as bad as some of the low-budget Star Trek (TOS) monster props.
Maybe it’s not the lost model. Maybe it’s “Nessie” taking a nap.
How to Calculate the Potential Loch Ness Population
https://hubpages.com/education/How-to-calculate-Loch-Ness-population-based-on-predator-to-prey-ratios
Not dead but pining for the Lochs.
Aquagiraffe!
Inbred like Muslims.
It’s always in the last place you look.
A delightful Sherlock Holmes film with music by Miklós Rózsa.
That was what was so great about those old movies. Someone actually had to use his hands to build something tangible. It shows, even if cheap, as something real. Now we have endless flat lifeless CGI.
If I remember correct, in the movie it was part of a small submarine operated by midgets. German agents were trying to steal the designs for the sub. Make people think there was a serpent in the Loch, not a sub.
The production folks for Dr. Who would have used it for the Terror Of The Zygons.
>>>How to Calculate the Potential Loch Ness Population<<<
It’s easy, you start with ZERO and make it less than ZERO.
Watch the McMillan & Wife episode set in the part of Scotland that in no way resembles California for a cheap and corny Loch Ness monster.
And as a Dalek creation and then as a Cyberman weapon and then as a.... oh wait. That would be Roger Corman.
Irwin Allen would bounce it between his sci-fi shows.
There were indications that the prop had been sexually violated.
Does it still qualify as “news” 13 months after the story first went to press?
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