Buckles Blog: More Monkey Pix #4

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

& then there was poor dead Kong.

Chic Silber said...: 1976 at the base of the World Trade

North tower; 23 July, 2013 09:12
Chic Silber said...: This beutifully detailed 40 foot

gorilla was built in California

& came in 5 segments on a flatbed

We assembled him in place

Another torso with head & arms was

autometed & used in studio filming; 23 July, 2013 09:19
Eric said...: In the 1933 original, King Kong was represented as being 18 feet high in the jungle scenes set on Skull Island. This proportion was originally selected to provide an effective dramatic relationship between Kong and the players. Although this scale was adjusted to suite the dramatic needs of some of the scenes, Kong was never so gigantic as to destroy his interest in the human players. When the action shifted to New York City, the 18-foot Kong came across on screen as too little, so the scale was changed to make him 24 feet high. In the film’s publicity, he was referred to as being fifty feet high.; 23 July, 2013 10:47
Chic Silber said...: With his toes pointed a la Barbara

he stood 39 feet 11 inches (actual)

But this guy never stood upright; 23 July, 2013 12:53

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