When I think back to the genisis of my kaiju collecting, it had to be when I started purchasing 8MM and Super 8MM films from Ken Films.
Ken's catalogue had a number of AIP horror titles from the 50's and a few from the 60's. But in 1974, they added 12 AIP and AIP-TV films that I initally only knew about from reading Famous Monsters and The Monster Times.
Yongary was my favorite out of the whole series. Ken stitched together about 10 minutes of Yongary SPFX in the reel's 11 minute runtime. The box artwork is my favorite of the whole series. Dig those crazy colors. The 70s were somethin' else man...
Another favorite was Voyage Into Space. Yet another film that did not run on my local TV station, so this was my only access to it until years later. Unlike the other boxes in the series, the artwork wraps around the entire box lid, without the yellow boarder.
I am in the process of rescanning all of these film box covers to post here. Be on the lookout!
Gappa no angry now!
