This is Tokyo. Once a city of six million people. What has happened here was caused by a force which up until a few days ago was entirely beyond the scope of Man’s imagination. Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world. There were once many people here who could’ve told of what they saw… now there are only a few. My name is Steve Martin. I am a foreign correspondent for United World News. I was headed for an assignment in Cairo, when I stopped off in Tokyo for a social; but it turned out to be a visit to the living HELL of another world.

Heck, Godzilla has a lot of great bits and pieces, but the opening to the original film is pretty straightforward about what’s going to happen. Post-war, those words couldn’t help but have meaning.

If only his name wasn’t Steve Martin – but how would they have known that there would be a popular comedian by that name? Godzilla was released in 1956 – When the comic was what… 10 years old or so?