The record of life is written on the land, where 15 million years later, in the upper reaches of the Amazon, man is still trying to read it.

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12 seconds sound clip from the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:02:23.777 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- In the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void.

- This is the planet Earth, newly born, and cooling rapidly from a temperature of 6000 degrees to a few hundred in less than five billion years.

- The heat rises, meets the atmosphere, the clouds form, and rain pours down upon the hardening surface for countless centuries.

- The restless seas rise, find boundaries, are contained. Now, in their warm depths, the miracle of life begins.

- In infinite variety, living things appear, and change, and reach the land, leaving a record of their coming, of their struggle to survive, and of their eventual end.

- The record of life is written on the land, where 15 million years later, in the upper reaches of the Amazon, man is still trying to read it.

- What that is, Dr. Maia?

- I don't know, Luis. I have never seen anything like this before.

- It's important?

- Yes, I think it is, very important.

- We will take one more picture. Then we will dig it out.

- I'm going to Morajo Bay, to the institute. You two are to wait here in the camp.

- You be gone long?

- Long enough to find out what this is and get help in digging out the rest of the skeleton.

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I can tell you something about this place. My boys call it the Black Lagoon, a paradise. Only, they say nobody has ever come back to prove it.

Listen to the sounds. -Hunting calls, mostly. Animals out for the kill. -Some of them are cries of fear, like people who whistle in the dark.

By studying these and other species, we add to our knowledge of how life evolved, how it adapted itself to this world. With that knowledge, perhaps we can teach men to adapt themselves to some new world of the future.

We don't entirely rule out the possibility that there might be some form of life on another planet. Then why not some entirely different form of life in a world we already know is inhabited by millions of living creatures?

I know a way to bring him up now: Rotenone. It's a drug which natives make from roots for catching fish in still waters. Sometimes I catch fish that way. I show you. Look.

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Sound Clip

Sound clips of the best quotes from the 1954 monster horror film "Creature from the Black Lagoon".

Actors: Richard Carlson (Dr. David Reed), Julia Adams (Kay Lawrence), Richard Denning (Dr. Mark Williams), Antonio Moreno (Dr. Carl Maia)

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