Lake Placid - Building the 30-Foot Animatronic Crocodile

SUBSCRIBE on YouTube: RING THE BELL FOR MORE VIDEOS FULL STORY: Lake Placid, a Steve Miner film about the search for a man-eating, thirty-foot crocodile in a lake in Maine. Stan Winston and his crew realized Lake Placid’s crocodile as a full-size animatronic puppet — complete with moving head and tail and snapping jaws — that would function underwater. The crocodile was mechanized through hydraulics, which, as had been learned on previous projects, work