King Kong Spider Pit Sequence - the lost models

When Peter Jackson attempted to recreate King Kong's lost Spider Pit Sequence in 2005, he used drawings and photographs as guides for the models. But some of the models had appeared in other films made by RKO and Willis O'Brien. I've combined clips from a few of them:

Genius At Work
You'll Find Out
Black Scorpion
Bringing Up Baby
Zombies on Broadway
Once Upon A Time
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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• stop
• motion
• animation
• bela
• lugosi
• boris
• karloff
• kay
• kyser
• willis
• o'brien
• yt:quality=high

[19nisey69]

Interesting, it mentions the bear and triceratops, but if you look on the top shelf on the opposite side, you can see the stegosaurus too.

[boinx1234]

@19nisey69

I labeled it, along with Son of Kong, at 2:30.

[Tareltonlives]

I feel like e-mailing this to Jackson and WETA. This is AWESOME!

[boinx1234]

@Tareltonlives

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Do it! And then post their response here.

[navystrengh]

Being a king kong fan i was surprized to find a long lost sequence of the spider pit had been cut. I have done research to see if there was any suriving footage tradegically there is not. I also learned that sequece was never finished due to time restrants.

[boinx1234]

@navystrengh

It wasn't due to time constraints, it was a decision on the part of Merian C. Cooper, the film's producer, who felt it slowed the film's pace. It's debated whether it was filmed or not. Read Filmfax magazine for all the details.

[paulalien]

WOW THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD ;-)

[442hoeky]

Great job spotting all these props! Tell me you wouldn't love to get your hands on them!

[GrantTarredus]

Thanks very much for the work you put into this. Spotting props from vintage fantasy / horror & sf films in other films is always great fun for me. And you've got sharp eyes!

[quicksketch90]

does anyone have a link to the recreated scene?

[Onceyoudie]

@hammerogod And, as you said, it is lost forever.

[Onceyoudie]

@hammerogod What a pity, huh? I’ll never understand how people can do this. I think it is very barbaric. All the work, all the time spent while making the film, everything this can be just burnt or destroyed. And, what is even worse, the people will never get to know about the talent. I’m a big King Kong fan, so this information made me really sad.

[Onceyoudie]

@Vanoc93 Of course there is some chance that this film still exists but very, very small. It is already seventy eight years ago this movie was filmed. So, I think, if there is the copy of this film, where is it? Why it wasn’t released yet? I mean, there’s always some chance but in this case it is very unnoticeable.