I was mesmerised by this You Tube test footage by Willis O'Brien of his unfinished 1931 stop-motion film 'Creation'.
Featuring somewhat unpleasant dinosaur hunting, I assume that Willis would have made sure the hunter got his comeuppance had he finished!
I hadn't seen this clip before and You Tube has a whole raft of O'Brian related stuff including material on the lost spider pit sequence of King Kong and clips from my beloved Mighty Joe Young movie, where a young Ray Harryhausen gets stuck into the clay.
I first came across Willis O'Brian, the godfather of stop motion, in the pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland and I may still have the very copy from my youth. It featured his original King Kong and dinosaur frame and clay models, which I seem to recall going to Forry Ackerman himself as part of his Ackermansion collection.
I wonder where they are now?
A trip to the loft is required methinks!
A lot of Forry's belongings were auctioned off.Director Peter Jackson owns some dinosaurs and props from the original King Kong movie, including the Stegosaurus and the bombs used to knock Kong out.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad about that Bri. I know that Forry fell on hard times and his beloved Ackermansion collection had to be sold off, I even bought a Forry keyring from it just to keep the faith. I wish I could have seen his fabulous home.
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