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NO SPIDER PIT SCENE EVER FILMED....AND MORE!

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BijouBob8mm		#121	[-]
May 23 12 11:17 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'll be looking at it with a whole new set of eyes. Just remember to take off those red & blue shades you're sporting in that avatar, Hal; it ain't in 3-D...at least not yet.
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HalLane		#122	[-]
May 23 12 1:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Someday, Bob. Someday ............ "Aaaaarrrooooooooooooooo....oooo....'cough' 'cough'....... oooooooo !"
BijouBob8mm		#123	[-]
May 23 12 2:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Where's Count Floyd when we need him?
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JadeExecutioner		#124	[-]
May 31 12 1:29 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What do you guys think of that quotation regarding the test reel, from the book by Cynthia Erb, "Tracking King Kong : A Hollywood Icon in World Culture"? "... To provide executives with a frame for understanding the test, a brief prologue was written, possibly by Cooper; it concluded thus: "Just before this reel opens, Kong has turned back to attack the rescuers. First, however, he has placed the girl, who has fainted, in a high dead tree-top where we now find her"...." ???? Last Edited By: JadeExecutioner May 31 12 1:33 AM. Edited 1 times.
JadeExecutioner		#125	[-]
May 31 12 2:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tim Smyth wrote: G Vallejo wrote: Regarding the vinecrawling spider scene, isn't it possible they just used the same elements for the other parts of the shot (Driscoll in his cave, Kong above) and edited in the newly-shot lizard? So parts of that scene were among the oldest shot for Kong, and one part was among the newest? No, the shot is the shot as is, we are talking 1933 here, it is a long shot with all three characters in it, on a miniature set, and a moving camera as well, no way to match anything up that was shot later. There are no traveling mattes, only Driscoll could, and would, have been used again since he is projected on a rear screen. The options are, that they shot the lizard in place of the spider originally, or that they shot the lizard as soon as the project got green lit. Remember, if there was only one Kong model built for the test reel, then they did some work right away on the log sequence adding two shots of Kong model #2, so they could have also shot and swapped the lizard shots during that time. As we all know, these shots including Kong model #2, most importantly this one with the lizard and the one of Kong coming into frame from right and chasing back the sailors towards the log are both broken down differently in the Rose 'script-transcript'. It's always the case with those shots. Never with Kong model#1 shots (except for the first composite shot of Kong crossing the log that is abandoned, but where the description of Kong is coherent). Don't you think it would definitely tend to prove all those model #2 shots would be later additions, reworking on elements originally shot with the first model for the test? Those differences look like close to an evidence for me that Kong model#1 and Spider were shot and replaced, but that may be just wishful thinking.
msotis		#126	[-]
May 31 12 10:11 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	BijouBob8mm wrote: Where's Count Floyd when we need him? "If you don't have your 3-D glasses, you'll only be seeing this thing in one half 'D', So be sure to put them on. Hahaha. The Weapon." Rush. Signals Tour. 1982. I forgot my glasses each time i saw that show. But it was great!
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