So he - but we did not want to shoot a man in a gorilla suit. When you see an occasional close-up of the head it's this big oversized Kong. But to hedge his bet he also had a huge full-sized bust of Kong constructed and a hand and arm of Kong constructed and a foot, so that for some shots, for example when he's holding Fay Wray in his hands, you've got the hand. When he saw that process at RKO he thought wait a minute, this is the way to do 'King Kong.' So he wanted to do it via the stop motion. And, of course, there had always been these men running around in gorilla suits in all kinds of movies that were made in the '20s and early '30s and, you know, that was fine but he wanted to do something special.Īnd when he saw over at RKO Willis O'Brien who was the chief technician working on some stop motion material for a picture called 'Creation,' which was never made, and he saw these dinosaurs he thought wait a minute, nobody's going to finance me during the Depression to go over to Africa and shoot a gorilla and then bring the gorilla to Komodo and so forth and so forth. RUDY BEHLMER (Historian, writer): Well, he felt that this had to be something different.

Why didn't he want to use a man in a gorilla suit? It certainly would have been a lot easier. Cooper, used what was then state of the art special effects.Ĭooper refused to use a man in a gorilla suit for 'King Kong,' and so they went with, you know, the puppet and stop time animation. We talked about how the film's director, Merian C. In 1999, after the soundtrack of the film dialogue and music was released on CD, I spoke with film historian Rudy Behlmer who wrote the liner notes. There are many things that make 'King Kong' great: the special effects, the image of the giant ape climbing the Empire State building, Fay Wray's screams and the score composed by Max Steiner. GROSS: That was Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham, the producer who journeys to Skull Island in the Indian Ocean to capture the giant ape and bring him to New York to star in a theater spectacle. Why, in a few months it'll be up in lights on Broadway: Kong, the eighth wonder of the world. He's always been king of his world but we'll teach him fear.

ARMSTRONG: (as Carl Denham) We'll give him more than chains.

Unidentified Man #1: (as character) No chains will ever hold that. Why, the whole world will pay to see this. ROBERT ARMSTRONG: (as Carl Denham) I'll build a raft to float him to the ship. Unidentified Man #1: (as character) What are you going to do? With the new film 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' opening this weekend, we thought you might want to hear about the most famous ape movie of them all, 'King Kong,' which was released in 1933.

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