Time to live tweet King Kong 1933 #tweetwithbgh

Overtures rock. The idea of just sitting and listening to the score before the movie starts really gives you an appreciation.

Especially for Max Steiner's brilliant composition. Steiner was one of the first composers to use Leitmotifs and score to match scenes. #tweetwithbgh

This is only 6 years after the invention of sound. The studio originally did not want to pay for an original score since this was made during the depression and money was tight. Merian C. Cooper paid out of pocket for it, however he did eventually get reimbursed. #tweetwithbgh

The proverb is fake.

The dialog in this film is all written by a woman. Ruth Rose wrote the ultimate pulp movie.

Edgar C. Wallace wrote the first draft of Kong until he died of pneumonia. Then you had James Creelman working on drafts. Rose was the final hand. #tweetwithbgh

It is wild but King Kong is 100% an autobiographical photo of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack's life.

Robert Armstrong patterned his performance off of Cooper and the lines about needing romance in the film are due to criticisms for his prior films. #tweetwithbgh

Hell even the story of casting Ann was based off a story told to Cooper by a long time friend and bit player in this movie. #tweetwithbgh

The director Ernest B. Schoedsack was exactly like Jack Discroll. There are interviews of him saying this exact dated type of dialog. Ruth Rose and Schoedsack were married having met on a voyage just like this one.

Sans Giant Ape of course #tweetwithbgh

The film was filmed over a 10 month period. With a huge gap for the actors between performances.

If you keep that in mind watch how drastically the weight of Jack Discroll shifts. This was due to the need for the actors to work on other pictures between shoots. #tweetwithbgh

During this break between scene Fay Wray took work in a number of horror pictures. The release of King Kong and these horror films in conjunction started the rep of Wray as one of the first Scream Queens. #tweetwithbgh

The natives of the island have always been one of the real dated elements of the film. To call it racist is an understatement and it is one of the things no remake ever really updates in a non racist way #tweetwithbgh

The chieftain is played by Noble Johnson. Johnson founded his own film studio in 1916 that was focused on telling black stories for a black audience. The company was one of the first of its kind. Called "The Lincoln Motion Picture Company" it lasted until 1921 #tweetwithbgh

The wall is leftover from a Cecil B. Demille film "The King of Kings". This same prop was eventually burnt to the ground for Gone with the Wind.

The huts and other pieces of set dressing were taking from other films as well. #tweetwithbgh

Much of Kong is due to inventive reuse of props and assets.

The dinosaurs were all hold overs from a Willis O'Brien project called "Creation" that was canceled by Merian C. Cooper (he was a higher up at RKO). #tweetwithbgh

The film still looks good today but Cooper's original plan was to take a live Gorilla and cross it over with a live Komodo Dragon to do battle. The exact process was unsure but it was deemed illogical. Cooper adored monkeys. The film Chang frequently featured one. #tweetwithbgh

That poor little lizard was apparently the inspiration for the skull crawler. This was also where the infamous spider pit sequence was inserted. It was cut prior to release and in all likelihood was burnt. #tweetwithbgh

The scene of Fay Wray in the tree reportedly took over 20 hours to film. #tweetwithbgh

Darlene O'Brien always said she could see elements of her husband Willis O'Brien in the performance of Kong. Which makes sense in things like the T-rex fight because Kong uses Boxing moves just like her husband. #tweetwithbgh

They invented a number of techniques for the effects sequences. One was the use of miniature rear projection. One frame at a time was shown in the background of the miniature sets as they performed the stop motion. #tweetwithbgh

The optical printer had just been invented which allowed for a much quick matte process (when you combine the shots of live action with the miniatures) and a newer rear projection screen had just been invented allowing a lot more freedom in rear projection. #tweetwithbgh

The pterodactyl sequence apparently took seven weeks to perfect.

The scene preceding it was incredibly complicated with a lot of elements overlapping each other. #tweetwithbgh

Carl Denham truly is the villain of this film. Which is always wild because you wonder if that ever even crossed the filmmakers minds.

He is colonialism personified. Taking what isn't his and leaving a community in shambles. #tweetwithbgh

There is no way it shared it with any of them. #tweetwithbgh

Certain scenes from this premiere were taken from the open of the Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times. #tweetwithbgh

When Fay Wray died in 2004 they dimmed the lights on the Empire State building. She was a true icon. #tweetwithbgh

This scene was added because the film was originally 13 reels long and they needed an extra scene as it was bad luck. Cooper remembered hating the L-train when he lived in New York and had Kong destroy it. The film was cut down to 11 reels after editing. #tweetwithbgh

In the 76 Kong the train conductor is played by the same actor as Crazy Ralph from the first two Friday the 13th movies. #tweetwithbgh

It was me Carl Denham who killed the beast. #tweetwithbgh