King Kong: Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. With Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher. A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde st
plants. One day during filming, a flower on the miniature set bloomed without anyone noticing. The error in continuity was not noticed until the film was developed and shown. While Kong moved, a time-lapse effect showed the flower coming into full bloom, and an entire day of animation was...
the oldest on theAFI’s Top 25 Movie Scores. Known as “the father of film scores,” Steiner revolutionized the concept of music in movies, scoring motifs for each character (like the three descending notes for Kong) and scoring specifically for the action (syncing beats with the tribe leade...
EXT. STREAM - FULL SHOT - DAY The water's edge, as the men run down through heavy fog left to right. A couple of fallen trees, floated down with the current, lie half submerged by the bank. Kong's footprints is in the mud, Kong splashing out of stream on other side can be hea...
Kongpossessed the same threat. Actually, the dangers increased given the film’s age. Visual effects were primitive in 1953, but they were downright prehistoric in 1933. Do the visuals ofKongstun now like they did 77 years ago? Heavens no. The chances of someone watching the movie today and...
I’ve seen “King Kong” (1933) many times, most memorably in its re-release in the 1950s, when it did indeed scare me. In recent years I have focused on the remarkable special effects, based by Willis O’Brien and others on his f/x work in “The Lost World” (1925) but achiev...
1. King Kong (1933) Grounbreaking puppetry and set design combined with a great score, this pre-code monster film was arguably the first true American blockbuster, long before Jaws (1975) was given credit for starting the genre. Spawning multiple spinoffs and remakes, but nothing still tops ...
Though the movie King Kong could not possibly cause anyone to lose sleep after seeing it today, it was certainly classified as a horror movie when it firstly went public in 1933. On the one hand, the director’s intentional blurring between the boundary of a documentary and a fiction added...
King Kong, Modernism and the Skyscraper Back to top When the fantasy/adventure movie, directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, was released in 1933, the film immediately became more than just a big movie hit for the studio RKO. The movie, and its archetypal image of the gi...
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