 This is the only movie where new footage of Godzilla was filmed and  added in during the Americanization process. The scene where  Americans attack Godzilla with "frontier missiles" was not in the  original cut. Toho let the distributor, American International  Pictures (AIP), borrow the Mosugoji suit for the filming of this  scene. For its theatrical release, AIP released Godzilla vs. Mothra  as Godzilla vs. the Thing in order to trick audiences into thinking  Godzilla fought the monster from the great Howard Hawks The Thing  from Another World (1951). An AIP theatrical poster even displayed  Godzilla fighting a monster covered by a "censored" card.