--- In sonsofkong@yahoogroups.com, "Arthur Lortie" <alortie@t...> wrote:
> Curt Phillips sez:
> > I thought that trailer looks pretty darned good myself.
> > And I'm very glad to see that it's a period film; set
> > around 1930 or so.
> > I see that the trailer is on the web:
>
> I have a friend who went to a licensing show in New York in June and
> collected a bunch of hypes for the inenvitable movie tie-ins. Start
saving your pennies and lires. Lots of stuff you're gonna want.
>
> The 1933 movie just had a book, a couple of movie mag appearences, a
half hour radio show and a jig-saw puzzle.


I will forever regret selling a book that I bought with birthday money
when I was around 10 or 11. It was one of those big, thick, coffee
table-type jobs all about the making of the '33 Kong. It had so many
amazing behind the scenes photos and such. It was awesome for a young
kid to see the "nuts & bolts" of SPFX way back when. Got me hooked on
finding out 'how they did that' which today drives my passion for DVDs
that have tons of bonus material included. That book had a lot of
really cool info on the making of the life-size Kong head, including
some amuzing pictures of one of the model makers holding one of Kong's
giant eyeballs in his hands.

Can't remember what I paid for it, but I vividly remember selling it
at a garage sale for a buck. Ahhhh, the stupidity of youth...

(Hopefully someone will re-release it, or do a new one that's just as
nice, to tie-in with the Christmas movie.)


-JN