![]() ![]() ![]() My imagination was captured by this method of bringing giant beasts to life in movies. ![]() Repeat until you have an entire sequence that when projected seems to show the model moving in uninterrupted – if slightly jerky – motion. Then the model is manipulated slightly into a new position, and another frame of film is clicked off. In the film production phase small models are positioned on miniature sets. I was then boggled to learn that Kong was an 18 INCH tall metal armature covered in rabbit fur – and that his movement was a trick using persistence of vision – a term for the effect that when your eye is presented with two pictures with slight differences of position projected at 24 frames (or pictures) a second – your brain will process the two pictures as movement. But I needed to know – even at that young age – just how these special effects were achieved. The wondrous special effects – depicting dinosaurs and a 50 foot tall ape interacting with a crew of documentary filmmakers on a legendary island in a far flung corner of the world – are some of the most visually interesting and charming visuals I’d seen up to that time (admittedly not a lot of time as I was still in single digits when I took in my first viewing). That is a definitive example of movie magic – and it had the same effect on a lot of kids at the time. Back in the day as a kid I was blown away watching the original King Kong (1933). ![]()
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