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Harryhausen with a model of Kong in chains KURT KRIEGER/CORBIS I was into big monsters long before I'd seen "King Kong" or even heard of Willis O'Brien. My brother and I shared a passion for the work of Ray Harryhausen, the second great Hollywood master of stop-frame...
It's hard to believe, but his first thought was to transport a film crew and a great ape to Komodo Island and somehow get the ape to fight a lizard on film. There were some logistical problems (I wonder what they could have been?) and the plan never got...
Cooper (L) and Schoedsack (R) Thus "Kong" was born from Cooper-Schoedsack's own experience as documentary filmmakers, Willis O'Brien's test reels, a fairy tale plot line conceived by Hollywood veteran James Creelman and Schoedsack spouse Ruth Rose, and a naïve '30s view of the great...
Willis O'Brien
Willis O'Brien near the end of his career The last major contributor to "Kong" was the first man mentioned in this article: the first great artist of stop-frame animation, Willis O'Brien. In some ways Kong is just a remake of his earlier silent film "The Lost World...