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...side runs a line of sprocket holes that allow the cogs of the projector to pull the film past the lamp. Letters can be seen between the holes: G, E, V, A, others I can't make out. Maybe they identify the film stock or the source of the print...
...which indeed do not appear in the release version of "Kong." (Later I heard the story: producer-director Merian C. Cooper had cut the sequence after the first preview. It seemed to him that it had stopped the picture cold.) Like Welles' cut of "Ambersons" or the original release print of Cukor's "A Star Is Born," the spider sequence has passed into the Missing Cinema Hall of Fame. It is still the subject of Internet rumours 78 years after it was first reported missing; the web fanatics insist it will appear on the long-delayed American...
Fortunately the version available on VHS and cable is the reconstituted original release print, without the cuts made for the 1938 rerelease. Kong's premiere in '33 made it a "pre-Code" film. The Hollywood Production Code, administered by the Hayes Office, was a self-imposed set of rules devised by the studios after the 1915 Supreme Court declaration that movies were "capable of evil, having power for it." The ruling made prior censorship by local government boards legal; expensive prints could - and would - be seized by local sheriffs and police departments...
...Frank had a print of "Kong...
...best discussion of O'Brien, Harryhausen and "King Kong" still in print, check...