With movie techniques getting as much attention as the movie stars, here's the newest thing "below the surface" of the Hollywood scene: an underwater 3-D cameral An ingenious gadget devised by Scotty Mel?bourne, it is shown being moved into underwater position by Melbourne and deep-sea diver Fred Zender at Wakulla Springs, Florida, to shoot scenes for "Creature From the Black Lagoon." Universal-International's third-dimensional science-fiction thriller stars Richard Carlson and Julia Adams, and introduces the Gill Man, an amphibian monster who seeks his prey on land and underwater. January 01, 1953.