Odd motion - which we seem to all agree this is - scans odd, near or far.

It's just that all the evidence -

- the picture of Buzz at work; recollections of those that were there; and the fact that Kong is never a suited man elsewhere in the film (why not use a good suited/masked man for some of the closeups, guys? It might've looked better than that oversized prop mechanical) -

- is that this is animation.

And it has always looked that way to my eyes, too.

-Craig

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era