{"id":3391,"date":"2024-07-21T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2024-09-28T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:06:28","slug":"happy-birthday-paul-blaisdell-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/07\/happy-birthday-paul-blaisdell-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Paul Blaisdell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">July 21, 1927 \u2013 July 10, 1983<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">New England\u2019s Paul Blaisdell, born in Newport, Rhode Island and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts; was an American painter, sculptor and visual effects creator, best remembered for his work in science fiction and horror B movies of the 1950s which included the CDF classics \u2013 THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES (1955), DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1955), IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956), THE SHE-CREATURE (1956), INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN (1957), THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957), ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (1958), EARTH VS THE SPIDER (1958), and TEENAGE CAVE MAN (1958)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1957\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Paul-Blaisdell_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Blaisdell \u2022 July 21, 1927 \u2013 July 10, 1983\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Paul-Blaisdell_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Paul-Blaisdell_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Paul-Blaisdell_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Paul-Blaisdell_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Paul-Blaisdell_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 21, 1927 \u2013 July 10, 1983 New England\u2019s Paul Blaisdell, born in Newport, Rhode Island and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts; was an American painter, sculptor and visual effects creator, best remembered for his work in science fiction and horror B movies of the 1950s which included the CDF classics \u2013 THE BEAST WITH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,553,15,7,5,554,372,129,269],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-amazingcolossalman","tag-attackofthepuppetpeople","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-earthvsthespider","tag-paulblaisdell","tag-puppetpeople","tag-teenagecaveman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Paul-Blaisdell_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}