Vampiro wrote:
I never have thought the shot of Kong falling was animated either.  It is obviously a dummy, or stuffed costume of some kind falling because it has definite weight and physics behind it.  Especally in the bounce.  It is just a matter of figuring out the scale.  I think that it was fairly big, human sized, certainly with the camera overcranked to slow down the action.

No. As Kessler pointed out it was a small 5 inch wooden puppet that was jointed. Peter Jackson owns it and I have various pics of it that I grabbed online in the past. Unfortunatly I can't find the closeups that I have. (They don't seem to be on my harddrive so I must have saved them onto a disc). All I can find is this one with King Kong 76' and King Kong 05' posing with it.


  

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