King Kong (1933) vs. T-Rex Battle 🦖

Movie: King Kong (1933)
Scene: Battle with Tyrannosaurus
King Kong is an American pre-Code monster adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

King Kong is especially noted for its stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien and a groundbreaking musical score by Max Steiner.

Murray Spivack provided the sound effects for the film. Kong's roar was created by mixing the recorded roars of zoo lions and tigers, subsequently played backwards slowly.

Spivak himself provided Kong's "love grunts" by grunting into a megaphone and playing it at a slow speed. For the huge ape's footsteps, Spivak stomped across a gravel-filled box with plungers wrapped in foam attached to his own feet, while the sounds of his chest beats were recorded by Spivak hitting his assistant (who had a microphone held to his back) on the chest with a drumstick.

Spivak created the hisses and creaks of the dinosaurs with an air compressor for the former and his own vocals for the latter. The vocalisations of the Tyrannosaurus were additionally mixed in with puma screams. Fay Wray herself provided all of her character's screams in a single recording session.

When filming the battle scene Wray spent almost twenty-two hours sitting in a fake tree. She was sore for days after.

Two versions of Kong's right hand and arm were constructed of steel, sponge rubber, rubber, and bearskin. The first hand was nonarticulated, mounted on a crane, and operated by grips for this scene whenKong grabs at Driscoll in the cave.

The other hand and arm had articulated fingers, was mounted on a lever to elevate it, and was used in the several scenes in which Kong grasps Ann.