1933 King Kong Prop Re-Animated After 72 Years

October 22, 2005

By PropMaster – Staff Writer

Bob Burns visited Peter Jackson at Wellywood Studios in New Zealand and he brought with him a very special prop- the original, 1933, stop motion puppet of King Kong. There were three puppets used to make the original 1933 film. The one owned by Bob Burns is the only one that still exists. Now, after over 70 years, the original Kong puppet has been re-animated by the WETA FX crew. You can see the new stop motion footage at http://www.kongisking.net/index.shtml.