The Giant Pacific Octopus wrote:
Vampiro wrote:

 Most notably the second one, because if you watch closely, other than doing the weird stretching motion with the legs, 

I think the reason that is was because Gibson was wiring the puppet into the various slots up a ladder of dowels. He had to wire the legs and arms into one slot, unwire it and move it into another slot above etc. etc. This is why Kong has those exaggerated leg movements because he is moving his leg from one dowel into another (like climbing a ladder) which is illustrated in that pic of Gibson placing the model on the dowels that I posted earlier. This is why I think the climbing looks "weird' as opposed to smooth animation because the puppet is essentially climbing up dowels via the animation.

  
Wiring the puppet the dowels would not effect the animation. Many shots in Kong used wires and dowels and whatever was at hand to help with the animation. This climb also does not look like any other stop motion climb that I have ever seen, be it Kong, Son, Joe, 20 Million Miles, you name it.  Also the legs seem way too long for Kong's. 


Tim