Your morning Kong
The AP has a nice review of the original “King Kong” on DVD. It’s nice to see an older movie get the star treatment for its DVD release, and it seems like they pulled out all the stops to put the extras together.
Possibly the most intriguing part:
The DVD’s Disc 2 documentary shows how an “obsessed” Jackson and his effects crew dedicated themselves to using the techniques employed by “Kong” effects chief Willis O’Brien and his collaborators in the 1930s: stop-motion animation, back projection, live action inserts, matte paintings, puppets, miniatures and other vintage forms of cine-magic.
Using the original shooting script, a few surviving models and a lot of guesswork, Jackson and Co. reshot the scene in which “Kong” expedition sailors come to a grisly end in a canyon guarded by a giant spider, lizard and crab. The filmmakers built models of the monsters and made them come to life via old-school stop motion.
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A DVD extra intercuts the cleverly “aged” footage with the actual “Kong” scenes. It fits right in.
Certainly sounds like it’s worth checking out on Netflix
