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- <text>
- <title>
- (1930s) King Kong
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
- Movies
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- King Kong
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>(March 13, 1933)
- </p>
- <p> It might seem that any creature answering the description of
- Kong would be despicable and terrifying. Such is not the case.
- Kong is an exaggeration ad absurdum, too vast to be plausible.
- This makes his actions wholly enjoyable. King Kong, "conceived"
- by Merian Coldwell Cooper, was not made entirely by enlarging
- miniatures. Kong is actually 50 ft. tall, 36 ft. around the
- chest. His face is 6 1/2 ft. wide with 10-in. teeth and ears 1
- ft. long. He has a rubber nose, glass eyes as big as tennis
- balls. His furry outside is made of 30 bearskins. During his
- tantrums, there were six men in his interior running his 85
- motors. Naturally no such monster would be limber enough to
- wrestle with a tyrannosaurus. Most of King Kong's fights were
- photographed in miniature, some of them in "stop-motion"--using models of which the positions are minutely changed after
- each exposure, like the drawings in an animated cartoon.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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