For the motion picture Industry, Don Post made alien pods for Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (Allied Artists 1956), Asian masks for stunt soldiers in Pork Chop Hill (MGM 1959), giant clown feet worm by Doris Day in Jumbo (MGM 1962), mutation appliances for The Haunted Palace (AIP 1963), and a foam latex mask of Peter Lorre, worn by the actor's stunt double Harvey Perry in Comedy Of Terrors (AIP 1964). Around 1948 Wright-Trietch put together a deal with Universal Studios for Don Post to manufacture Over-The-Head masks of Universal's famed Frankenstein Monster, thus becoming one of that studio's very first commercial product licensees. Migrating to Hollywood, California in the 1940's, Don was discovered by early merchandise mogul Norma Jean Trietch (nee Wright), who procured his services to create the rubber heads for commercially sold hand puppets of the famous wrestler Gorgeous George. Other masks were of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini - The Dictators, and Edgar Bergen's Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, all sold at Marshall Field's Department Store in Chicago, Illinois. His first such borrowed personality mask was of Esky the Esquire Magazine mascot. and Barnum & Baily producing clown Paul Wenzel's Popeye The Sailor Man full head mask, serving as Don Post's inspiration to manufacture Over-The-Head Rubber Masks for commercial sale. His own curiosity prompted a backstage visit to examine Ringling Bros. Celebrated as The Godfather Of Halloween, pioneer original creator of Over-The-Head Rubber masks, founder and namesake of Don Post Studios.
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