Peter Jackson's Original King Kong Stop-Motion Armature

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I would love to see more of his Stuffs

I would love to know what happened to the big head used for close up shots in the 1933 Kong.
I heard an odd rumour that it was at one point stood outside a restaurant!

Peter SHOULD do this War Eagles movie... we can see tha passion on his eyes talking about it...

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Willis O'brian did not design the animation models of Kong. HIs p;rops guy did.

If nobody knew where it came from, how was it authenticated?

Marcel Delgado should probably get most of the credit for the creation of the metal skeleton technique

One of my very earliest memories is of watching King Kong. Roughly 1973. I must've been four. I remember it terrified me so much I ran and hid behind our sofa.

Subsequently every time it came on TV, my family would ask if they should pull the sofa out so I could hide behind it.

Has peter jackson released any stop motion films? Id love to see it

I could watch a whole network of just this, some of the best minds in the industry getting excited talking about something they love

i love peter, he seems like a big child that never grown up <3 he loves his props!

Tyrannosaurs in F-14s!

Peter Jackson what a top bloke 👍🏻🇦🇺

Nerd alert!😂

So it turns out king Kong is actually a terminator from the 1930's!!

The original Lego Bionicle.

How wonderful that something of historical motion picture significance is being squirreled away in some podgy kiwi's basement gathering dust, rather than in a museum where everybody can enjoy it.
It's like buying the Mona Lisa and tossing it up in the attic.
How did this bloated slug get hold of something this valuable only to have it hidden in a private collection.

I'm so disapointed that Peter did King Kong as a gigant gorilla but King Kong was actually a gigant humanoid ape

What a fantastic film Adam

There are no words.

I would love to hang out in this shop

Right about 60 years ago, a picture was taken of me in Fury Ackerman's old house holding the Kong armature when he had it. That picture was posted in Famous Monsterof Filmland mag. Several years later, i met and interviewed Marcel DelGado at his small, Hollyweird apt. He had the horses and cowboy miniatures from MJY, and the miniatures from It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Great, humble man.
Soon after that, i met and interviewed Willis O'Brien's widow who allowed me to take his photo album and have it copied. Lots of Kong pics.......but no Spider Pit😢. Those pic, btw, went to the editor of Fantastic Monsters Of The Films who somehow infuriated Mrs. O'Brien and the pics were never published. Then Vietnam came around and i lost touch with everyone, and everything. Then i saw this utooby!
Now, i'm curious, was the armature in Fury's house back then round face, or long face? Thanks for the vid.

Endoskeleton irl.

Looking at King Kong's skeleton is like archaeology of cinema.

How much did that cost? That's the part I want to know.

Those machines are so smart.

If this doesn't prove that you do NOT need to wear gloves handling old stuff I don't know what does, so sick of seeing gloves for no reason

I remember I saw an armature of Kong in the Museum of Moving Image (MOMI) in London, UK during the 1980’s…that had parts of the skin still attached; was that one of the ones you mentioned?

Fantastic. I saw King Kong when I was about 8 and have remained completely and utterly thrilled by it ever since. The imagination and skill that went into bringing that wild fantasy to life.

Guys? Why is this not 8 hours long? I can't find anything else on this? I see everything in the background and why the fuck am I not able to see everything? This collection is fucking insane.

The Kong armature was at the Car of Stars and planes of fame museum in California through at least the mid 70's I saw it many times.

You can feel Adam's inner chill super exited looking at the prop and wanting to touch it at the beginning of the video

how many peepz actually know his first movies meet the feebles for instance, bad taste or brain dead ? How ever Mr. J. guy knows how to create a virtual feast - awesome

I love Peter Jackson, this is lovely.

he paid 200000 in 2009 for the kong armature

I just love watching Adam nerd out.

i would be scared to touch that

Don’t forget Marcel Delgado

"One thing you'd save during a fire"
To be faaaaair.... it would probably survive a fire.

just amazing

In the making of King Kong 05 documentary, he said, "People always assume my life long ambition was LOTR, but it wan't. It was this movie (King Kong)>" and you can see it here. I've seen so many recent interviews with Jackson talking LOTR and he looks exhausted and bored. But here, talking monsters and Kong and stop motion, he seems alive and like a kid in a candy store! Love it. Mad respect for him.

The Holy Grail of stop motion animation!

He had the opportunity of a lifetime remaking Kong and its unwatchable 😫😫😫

The items on those shelves aren’t movie props, they’re holy relics! AND I noticed on the shelf above he has the Ymir from Ray Harryhausen’s “20 Million Miles to Earth”! Harryhausen is the other giant of fantastic film special effects. It warms my heart that they are treasured possessions of Peter Jackson.

ray harryhausen's first film work was on mighty joe young . i noticed Ray's Ymir maquette on the shelve about the kong armature .

What was joe youngs head made out of? It looks like wood 😕

I never knew that this Kong existed. Years ago I got my picture taken with Bob Burns and he let me hold his King Kong armature, which was also the armature for the son of Kong. I also saw movie "King Kong" in a vintage theater along with Ray Harryhausen and Bob Burns. Bob brought both Kong and as a tribute to Harryhausen his armature of Mighty Joe Young . It was such a thrilling time, I will never forget it.

Peter Jackson sounds like he's gonna cry.