The Giant Pacific Octopus wrote:
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.


  
Am I the only one who thinks Andy looks like he's nearly soiling himself at the pressure of holding the damn thing?


"I want Kong to be the fiercest, most brutal, monstrous damned thing that has ever been seen."

- Merian C. Cooper, in argument with Willis H. O'Brien.