Own The Original King Kong!
Filed under: Etc.
This is what special effects looked like in 1930 - a mechanical doll!
Laugh if you will, but King Kong is still one of the most recognizable movies of all time, and that little monkey right there is how the iconic Empire State Building scene came to life. This metal skeleton helped animated the big ape scaling the New York skyscraper.
And now for a few couple hundred thousand dollars, you can own this piece of movie history! Christie's will be auctioning off this 22-inch armature (that's what it is really called) in London on Nov. 24. The estimated value - $160,000-$240,000!!!
Wow!
[Image via AP Images.]
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first? wow this is news-worthy.
hey betty, not logging on as hole?
one of my biggest pet peeves. that is not a monkey!!
22-inch armature (that's what it is really called)
Perez, people can read; they know the meaning of word. Of course, this has more syllables than «douche» so you're flabergasted.
1. its not mechanical, it is a gorilla with a metal structure inside of it, the movie was stop animation.
2. Its not a monkey or an ape, king kong is a gorilla. get it right perez.
3. your English skills suck. You really need to proof read the things you post. My 2 year old niece can write better then you can!
Re: curiousred – flabbergasted. get your shit together when you are accusing others of a lack of the english language.
Re: ncar15 – BITCH get a barbie and stop abusing your dog. dress up is for humans and dolls. there needs to be licenses for pet owners.
fuck you, man (or whatever you are). I'm French and I write better English than Perez. And since when does anybody defend Perez's spelling?
did you not know there was a world before computer perez? thats so lame that you shit a brick over something from nearly 80 years ago
The historical aspect is very interesting. By the way, King Kong is an ape. Monkeys have tails, apes don't. Gorillas are apes.
I saw a detailed making of and though I was a fan since being a kid, I was awestruck at the hours and hours of labor that went into the stop-motion animation, the overlapping of live action with animation (sometimes three to four separate effects all going on at once in the same scene), and how it all came together as one cohesive film. Until CGI, that was how most big monsters were done; that or men in rubber suits (which suck), or the PETA unfriendly trend in the early 60's of sticking fins into lizards and filming them thrash about in slo-mo. Sure Peter Jackson's "King Kong" was a marvel of digital technology, but the original "King Kong" was a marvel of human technology and hard hard work!
I hope it goes to a museum or the smithsonian , not some rich prick's closet.