A monstrous legacy
Through nearly nine decades and almost as many major studio movies, the enormous, tortured ape has moved the dial on special effects time and again
Mar 11, 2017
1 minute
KING KONG, 1933
The first Kong was a feat of stop-motion animation. Footage of puppets—no bigger than 2 ft. tall and constructed from ball-and-socket joints and rabbit fur—was combined
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