[24], Cooper took his concept to Paramount Studios in the first years of the Great Depression but executives shied away from a project that sent film crews on costly shoots to Africa and Komodo. La película King Kong de 1933, doblada al español. He completed a rough draft called The Beast on January 5, 1932. Cooper thought the draft needed considerable work but Wallace died on February 10, 1932, just after beginning revisions. In 2005, Warner Home Video released 'King Kong (1933)' on DVD for the first time in a two-disc Special Edition and a cool, tin Collector's Edition with a wealth of goodies. The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film. This is the original, and by far the best, version of the tale of King Kong. The original version was released four times between 1933 and 1952, and each release saw the cutting of additional scenes. Capitalizing on this trend, Congo Pictures released the hoax documentary Ingagi (1930), advertising the film as "an authentic incontestable celluloid document showing the sacrifice of a living woman to mammoth gorillas." [74] In 2014 the Blu-ray was repackaged with three unrelated films in a 4 Film Favorites: Colossal Monster Collection. One note, Dungeon Hero and writer, Edgar Wallace, died in Hollywood during the making of KING KONG … (2015). This miniature rear projection was used in the scene where Kong is trying to grab Driscoll, who is hiding in a cave. [55], In December 1932 – January 1933, the actors were called back to film a number of optical effects shots which were mostly rear-screen projections. The natives kidnap Ann and take her through the gate and to an altar on the other side of the wall, where she is offered to Kong, an enormous gorilla-like creature. 'King Kong'. I love King Kong.If you would could you check out my video about this movie on YouTube by searching "High Art and King King King Kong and the Hudson River School". C’est simple : Cherchez, Cliquez, Trouvez ! I'd be interested in your reaction to my idea. After a 6-year worldwide search for the best surviving materials, a further, fully digital, restoration utilizing 4K resolution scanning was completed by Warner Bros. in 2005. [citation needed], In July 1932, the native village was readied while Schoedsack and his crew filmed establishing shots in the harbor of New York City. A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. At present, Universal holds worldwide rights to Kong's home video releases outside of North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The 1933 King Kong film and character-inspired imitations and installments. [29] Writer Ruth Rose (Schoedsack's wife) was brought in to do rewrites and, although she had never written a screenplay, undertook the task with a complete understanding of Cooper's style, streamlining the script and tightening the action. Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King_Kong_(1933_film)&oldid=1019997845, United States National Film Registry films, Pages containing links to subscription-only content, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2016, Articles needing additional references from November 2016, All articles needing additional references, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. [citation needed], In May and June 1932, Cooper directed the first live-action Kong scenes on the jungle set built for The Most Dangerous Game. Though many of the outtakes - including the censored sequence in which Kong peels off Fay Wray's clothes - were restored in 1971, one cut scene has never been found. Steiner completed the score in six weeks and recorded it with a 46-piece orchestra. En 1933, lors de la sortie du film, un véritable choc attend les spectateurs. 'Here Comes the Bride.' [citation needed] In December, Cooper re-shot the scene of the female New Yorker falling to her death. [80] John Mosher of The New Yorker called it "ridiculous", but wrote that there were "many scenes in this picture that are certainly diverting". It was used in the famous scene where Kong and the Tyrannosaurus fight while Ann watches from the branches of a nearby tree. This version was re-released to art houses by Janus Films in 1970. [21] King Kong producer Ernest B. Schoedsack had earlier monkey experience directing Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927), also with Merian C. Cooper, and Rango (1931), both of which prominently featured monkeys in authentic jungle settings. Cooper began immediately developing The Most Dangerous Game, and hired Ernest B. Schoedsack to direct. In 1984, King Kong was one of the first films to be released on LaserDisc by the Criterion Collection, and was the very first movie to have an audio commentary track included. THE THREE STOOGES in SPOOK LOUDER - Thomas Ravensc... SH! It's the focus of 1939's Love Affair, in which the plan of lovers Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer to meet atop the building is thwarted by a car accident. Originally, Denham ducked behind a bush to escape danger, but this was later considered cowardly and the scene was re-shot. Some actors had so much time between their Kong periods that they were able to fully complete work on other films. [47] The translucent screen was developed by Sidney Saunders and Fred Jackman, who received a Special Achievement Oscar. [68], RKO did not preserve copies of the film's negative or release prints with the excised footage, and the cut scenes were considered lost for many years. All the armatures were manufactured in the RKO machine shop. P,41. The cut scenes were added to the film, restoring it to its original theatrical running time of 100 minutes. Réalisateur : Ernest B. Schoedsack. Cute moments involving the gorilla in Wallace's draft were cut because Cooper wanted Kong hard and tough in the belief that his fall would be all the more awesome and tragic. At the turn of the 20th century, the Lumière Brothers sent film documentarians to places westerners had never seen, and Georges Méliès utilized trick photography in film fantasies that prefigured that in King Kong. It was used in the scene where Kong is shaking the sailors off the log, as well as the scene where Kong pushes the gates open. and Robinson, D. (1983). Anybody else wants to see John's King Kong size ideas, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQbHYzLkZ10. Race and 'King Kong' Film critics and others have long noted the racist overtones of the 1933 and 1976 versions of King Kong.As director Peter … James Flavin played Second Mate Briggs, and a host of stuntmen and bit players as the ship's crew. The same process was also used for the scene where sailors from the Venture kill a Stegosaurus. [92][93] In 1998, the AFI ranked the film #43 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.[94][95]. ..never known it to fail!...tuffmuglikeyougetsonelookataprettyfaceandBANGhecracksupandgoessappy! Kong cast and crew attended and Wray thought her on-screen screams distracting and excessive. The scene where Kong fights the Tanystropheus in his lair was likely the most significant special effects achievement of the film, due to the way in which all of the elements in the sequence work together at the same time. Crowds lined up around the block on opening day, tickets were priced at $.35 to $.75, and, in its first four days, every one of its ten-shows-a-day was sold out – setting an all-time attendance record for an indoor event. The script was still in revision when the jungle scenes were shot and much of the dialogue was improvised. A tiny screen was built into the miniature onto which live-action footage would then be projected. AAARRGGHHH!!!! Etta McDaniel played a native mother of a child she rescues from Kong's rampage. [16] Merian C. Cooper played an airplane pilot and Schoedsack the machine gunner in uncredited roles in the film's final scenes. Etats-Unis - 1933 - 3h40. At the same time, a scene depicting poker players surprised by Kong's face peering through a window was filmed using the 'big head', although the scene was eventually dropped. The background of the scenes in the jungle (a miniature set) was also painted on several layers of glass to convey the illusion of deep and dense jungle foliage.[43]. Welcome to tonight's Halloween Moldie Oldie Monday, here at The Dungeon... We gots a special color version of one of the greatest monster movies ever made!! Some details from Wallace's rough draft were dropped, such as his boatload of escaped convicts. [82] The Chicago Tribune called it "one of the most original, thrilling and mammoth novelties to emerge from a movie studio. Materials used were cotton, foam rubber, latex sheeting, and liquid latex. [85] Early films frequently mirrored racial tensions. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. Cabot completed Road House and Wray appeared in the horror films Dr. X (1932) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). The film starts when Carl Denham, a film director who is famous for shooting animal pictures in remote and exotic locations, is unable to hire an actress to star in his newest project and so wanders the streets searching for a suitable girl. [25], When Cooper screened O'Brien's stop-motion Creation footage, he was unimpressed but realized he could economically make his gorilla picture by scrapping the Komodo dragons and costly location shoots for O'Brien's animated dinosaurs and the studio's existing jungle set. [38] The first hand was non articulated, mounted on a crane, and operated by grips for the scene in which Kong grabs at Driscoll in the cave. (1996). Una productora cinematográfica viaja hasta una isla desconocida cerca de Sumatra. The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles was rented for one day to film the scenes where Kong is displayed in chains and the backstage theater scenes following his escape. LA MANO CHE NUTRE LA MORTE - Stefano Liberati and ... JOHNNY JUPITER / DuMont + ABC TV - 1953-4. RKO head Selznick and his executives wanted Kong introduced earlier in the film (believing the audience would grow bored waiting for his appearance), but Cooper persuaded them that a suspenseful build-up would make Kong's entrance all the more exciting. In: Grant, Barry Keith (ed.). She was sore for days after the shoot. The remake was followed by a sequel in 1986 titled King Kong Lives. Son style vintage est idéal pour votre déco ! The decks and cabins of the Venture were constructed and all the live-action shipboard scenes were then filmed. the mogul asked. King Kong opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews, and has since been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time[5] and the fifty-sixth greatest film of all time. King kong 1933 couleur [Fermé] Signaler. O'Brien and his special effects crew also devised a way to use rear projection in miniature sets. In 2005 Warner Bros released their digital restoration of King Kong in a US 2-disc Special Edition DVD, coinciding with the theatrical release of Peter Jackson's remake. Receipts fell by up to 50% in the second week of the film's release because of the national "bank holiday" called in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first days in office. You won't find that island on any chart.That was made by the skipper of a Norwegian barque...A canoe full of natives from this island was blown out to sea. Classics label in 1999. She was sore for days after. King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster adventure romance film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. King Kong (1933) Colorized Version Seeking a backer for his movie, Merian C. Cooper approached a top Hollywood mogul. [66][67] After the 1956 re-release, the film was sold to television (first being broadcast March 5, 1956). P,41. Fay Wray herself provided all of her character's screams in a single recording session. [3], On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 64 reviews, with an average rating of 9/10. Leon Gordon also contributed to the screenplay in a minimal capacity; both he and McCoy went uncredited in the completed film. Film maker Denham hires a ship to take him to a mysterious island, where he hopes to film wonders previously unseen by man. Rose also rewrote the dialogue and created the film's opening sequence, showing Denham meeting Ann on the streets of New York. P.373. Wallace's Danby Denham character, a big game hunter, became film director Carl Denham. In 1931, David O. Selznick brought Cooper to RKO as his executive assistant and promised him he could make his own films. "You know what a 50-foot gorilla would see in a five-foot girl?" In his executive capacity, Cooper ordered the Creation production shelved, and put its crew to work on Kong.[26]. The scene was accomplished through the use of a miniature set, stop-motion animation for Kong, background matte paintings, real water, foreground rocks with bubbling mud, smoke, and two miniature rear screen projections of Driscoll and Ann. "[84], In the 19th and early 20th century, people of African descent were commonly visually represented as ape-like, a metaphor that fit racist stereotypes, further bolstered by the emergence of scientific racism. Grant, Elizabeth. [90], Kong did not receive any Academy Awards nominations. Orbis Publishing Ltd. Eagan, Daniel (2010). It was Beauty killed the Beast." These films are mostly unrelated to the original and follow a very different style. [32] Four models were built: two jointed 18-inch aluminum, foam rubber, latex, and rabbit fur models (to be rotated during filming), one jointed 24-inch model of the same materials for the New York scenes, and a small model of lead and fur for the climactic plummeting-down-the-Empire-State-Building shot. King Kong (1933) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. His lips, eyebrows, and nose were fashioned of rubber, his eyes of glass, and his facial expressions controlled by thin, bendable wires threaded through holes drilled in his aluminum skull. When we. [59] The score was unlike any that came before and marked a significant change in the history of film music. This was based on a 1942 release print, with missing censor cuts taken from a 1937 print, which "contained heavy vertical scratches from projection. Les images, les sons, les mouvements et les compositions picturales exceptionnelles de King Kong les entraînent dans un monde fascinant. He chances upon unemployed Ann Darrow, as she is caught trying to steal an apple. THE OCTOPUS - Heinz Roemheld - "That Music Wil... FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND / Jerry Warren - 1981. Some of these scenes were incorporated into the test reel later exhibited for the RKO board. [50][51], King Kong was filmed in several stages over an eight-month period. She incorporated autobiographical elements into the script with Cooper mirrored in the Denham character, her husband Schoedsack in the tough but tender Driscoll character, and herself in struggling actress Ann Darrow. Guigui126 Messages postés 19 Date d'inscription mardi 14 janvier 2020 Statut Membre Dernière intervention 29 juin 2020 - 1 févr. Pursuing Ann, Kong breaks open the gate despite the huge beam securing it and the combined efforts of the crew and natives to push it closed. [45] It was used in the climactic scene where one of the Curtiss Helldiver planes attacking Kong crashes from the top of the Empire State Building, and in the scene where natives are running through the foreground, while Kong is fighting other natives at the wall. In these films, scientific knowledge could be subverted at any time, and it was this that provided the genre with its vitality, appeal, and endurance. The Williams process did not use bipacking, but rather an optical printer, the first such device that synchronized a projector with a camera, so that several strips of film could be combined into a single composited image. In the early 1960s, RKO had licensed the King Kong character to Japanese studio Toho and produced two King Kong films, King Kong vs. Godzilla which was also the third film in Toho's long-running Godzilla series, and King Kong Escapes, both directed by Ishirō Honda. "[77] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 90 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [81] The New York World-Telegram said it was "one of the very best of all the screen thrillers, done with all the cinema's slickest camera tricks". post a sound clip, it will only stay up 30 days or less! Trouvez King kong 1933 sur Leboncoin, eBay, Amazon et autres. Its scale matched none of the models and, if fully realized, Kong would have stood thirty to forty feet tall. During filming, Kong's rubber skin dried out quickly under studio lights, making it necessary to replace it often and completely rebuild his facial features. Football bladders were placed inside some models to simulate breathing. With it, the special effects crew could combine two strips of different films at the same time, creating the final composite shot in the camera. Acteurs : Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Frank Reicher, Bruce Cabot, Sam Hardy... L'HISTOIRE. THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE / Gorham Productions - 1959. The RKO board was wary about the project but gave its approval after Cooper organized a presentation with Wray, Armstrong, and Cabot, and O'Brien's model dinosaurs. King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling an enormous ape, that has appeared in various media since 1933. Kuhn, Annette. The last scene shot was that of Driscoll and Ann racing through the jungle to safety following their escape from Kong's lair. Though searched for, the footage is now considered "lost forever" with only a few stills and pre-production drawings. $5.3 million. "[69] An original release print located in the UK in the 1980s was found to contain the cut scenes in better quality. For the huge ape's footsteps, Spivak stomped across a gravel-filled box with plungers wrapped in foam attached to his own feet, while the sounds of his chest beats were recorded by Spivak hitting his assistant (who had a microphone held to his back) on the chest with a drumstick. (2007). Ingagi is now often recognized as a racial exploitation film as it implicitly depicted black women having sex with gorillas, and baby offspring that looked more ape than human. She estimated she worked for ten weeks on Kong over its eight-month production. Wray spent most of a twenty-two-hour period sitting in a fake tree to witness the battle between Kong and a Tyrannosaurus. [73] Warner Home Video re-released the black and white version on VHS with the 25-minute documentary included under the Warner Bros. The most difficult task for the special effects crew to achieve was to make live-action footage interact with separately filmed stop-motion animation – to make the interaction between the humans and the creatures of the island seem believable. With Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher. Kong's escape was switched from Madison Square Garden to Yankee Stadium and (finally) to a Broadway theater. Fay Wray then spent a twenty-two-hour period sitting in a fake tree acting out her observation of the battle, which was projected onto the translucent screen while the camera filmed her witnessing the projected stop-motion battle. The Cinema Book. King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster adventure romance film[4] directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Kong rampages through the city with Ann in his grip, wrecking a crowded elevated train and then climbs the Empire State Building. A camera was mounted on a crane to follow Ann to the altar. The studio chief wasn't buying but the public was. [39], The dinosaurs were made by Delgado in the same fashion as Kong and based on Charles R. Knight's murals in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. O'Brien's protégé, Ray Harryhausen, who later worked with him on several films, stated that O'Brien's second wife noticed that there was so much of her husband in Kong. [47] A fan was used to prevent the footage that was projected from melting or catching fire. However, according to confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler was "fascinated" by the film and saw it several times. He gazes at Ann one last time before he is hit twice more, and falls from the tower to his death. [30] Cooper and Schoedsack decided to co-direct scenes but their styles were different (Cooper was slow and meticulous, Schoedsack brisk) and they finally agreed to work separately, with Cooper overseeing O'Brien's miniature work and directing the special effects sequences, and Schoedsack directing the dialogue scenes. [citation needed] The final negative cost of King Kong was $672,254.75, $270,000 more than the original projected budget. [36] Inside the structure, metal levers, hinges, and an air compressor were operated by three men to control the mouth and facial expressions. All Universal's releases only contain their earlier, 100 minutes, pre-2005 restoration. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was developed from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. Welcome to tonight's Halloween Moldie Oldie Monday, here at The Dungeon... We gots a special color version of one of the greatest monster movies ever made!! Cooper assigned a recently hired RKO screenwriter and best-selling British mystery/adventure writer Edgar Wallace the job of writing a screenplay and a novel based on his gorilla fantasy. 1933 film directed by Mercin C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. Such a category did not exist at the time and would not exist until 1938. [70], The film was a box-office success making about $5 million in worldwide rentals on its initial release, with an opening weekend estimated at $90,000. The other hand and arm had articulated fingers, was mounted on a lever to elevate it, and was used in the several scenes in which Kong grasps Ann. In: Lloyd, Ann. Dans les premières versions du scénario, Merian C. Cooper envisageait que le nom du gorille serait simplement The Beast (« La Bête ») et que le film se nommerait Jungle Beast (« La Bête de la Jungle »). Steiner used a number of new film scoring techniques, such as drawing upon opera conventions for his use of leitmotifs. 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A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. The final scene was originally staged on the top of the Empire State Building, but Cooper was dissatisfied and reshot the scene with Kong lying dead in the street with the crowd gathered about him. I'm good at visualizing things in paintings, and for me, the skull was pushing it some! This page was last edited on 26 April 2021, at 16:16. [48][49] However, film historians have generally agreed that all scenes involving Kong were achieved with animated models. Rather than explaining how Kong would be transported to New York, for example, she simply cut from the island to the theater. [79] The New York Times gave readers an enthusiastic account of the plot and thought the film a fascinating adventure. The New York scenes were filmed, including the scene of Ann being plucked from the streets by Denham, and the diner scene.
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