On today’s episode of Road to Gojira, we look into two story-filled events that led to the creation of King Kong. The first focuses on Willis O’Brien and his failed Lost World follow-up film known as Creation, while the second story follows King Kong’s creator, Merian C. Cooper, and his adventure into the world of filmmaking.
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A Century of Stop Motion Animation: From Melies to Aardman
by Ray Harryhausen, Tony Dalton
Documentary: “RKO Production 601”
Documentary: “I’m King Kong! The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper”
From the Land Beyond Beyond: The films of Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen
– Jeff Rovin
KING KONG – 1984 Criterion Collection Audio Commentary by film historian Ronald Haver
King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson
by Ray Morton
Kong Unmade: The Lost Films of Skull Island REVISITED: Volume I (1925-1960)
by John LeMay
Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong
by Mark Cotta Vaz
Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema
– John Brosnan
The Making of King Kong
by George E. Turner, Dr. Orville Goldner
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Oh nice been waiting for this
Hell yeah another episode and yeah the original King Kong film will remain a classic
Yahoo!!! Thanks you made my night!!!
Yes! The creation of the og King Kong here we go!
I was hoping we could get a part of this series of how the idea of Godzilla came and how the movie was made otherwise this series is da goat
I grew up with Peter Jackson film era
I was just thinking about your channel the other day. Glad to see this series continue! Excellent research and seeing the process of how these films are created is very intriguing
Yay I like your episode ❤
I was wondering when you would upload today!, a another wonderful video by me favorite gogiler youtuber!
Hey paper finz I got a question?
Did you watched the new Godzilla trailer aka teaser called “godzilla minus one”
I've never heard of the Atlantis Project before, that sounds like it could have been really cool. I wonder how mixing stop motion and water would have gone in the late 20's.
Great video….just a great video…I got no words
Just as always, a masterpiece
Great job! Learned a lot from this!
Oooooh, been waiting for the next episode! [grabs popcorn] 🍿
I was wondering when the next installment would come out. Thanks for continuing the series
Without creation being cancelled King Kong would never have been made!🦍🦖
These are really great stories. Glad you’re still making videos man. Hope to see more soon.
What an amazing movie! They went through so many hardships before and you really get a feel for them! 🙁
I’m happy it worked out for them in the end and they were able to make such an incredible film!
13:50 little would he know we would get a movie very similar to that later on 😉
Bro, I just woke up, thanks for this, you already made my day.
Let them come
Fascinating. Can't wait to see how we finally ended up with Gojira!
Awesome new video!
Another great job! Keep on rocking it!
I hope Creation (along with other of O'brian's scrapped ideas) would one day see the light of day in some form or another.
Let’s go, been looking forward to this
I always love film history videos made by fans of the creature genre.
This series is so fkin good
one question, what happened to the video of the differences between the japanesse version and the american version of godzilla vs ebirah¿¿¿ youtube delete it for you¿¿¿ 😒😡🤬