LOCH NESS MONSTER

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 316, 23 December 1936, Page 2

LOCH NESS MONSTER

COMING TO NEW ZEALAND

i Thirty Feet Long : Travels Thirty Knots. i i Cinema-goers in Australia and New ■ Zealand may soon get a glimpse of i the famous—and some say fabulous i —Monster of Loch Noss. .It has i made its dibirf on the British screen |it his week as star of a special feai lure in the first number of a Scot- | tisii monthly film review, ! That Happen.” W As much money has boon spent on tracking the monster as the salary of a film star with hox-oflice draw. But the Loch Ness Monster is as elusive as Greta Garbo. Both seem to have 'the cold northern temperain nt. The film was- ’obtained, only six weeks ago, after three years of efforl. Il shows an animal more than 30ft long careering through the loch at a speed of 30 knots—as fast as the Queen Mary. “Dark grey . . . almost black in colour, and very shiny; the head and neck were parallel with the surface and rising and falling with the movement of the huge body: humps visible as the flippers move beneath them.” That is how Malcolm M. Irvine, a director of Scottish Film Productions, who “shot” the monster with a telescopic camera, described the beast.