King Kong (1933) — Battle with Tyrannosaurus

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&and a groundbreaking musical score by Max Steiner. Murray Spivack provided the sound effects for the film. Kong&roar was created by mixing the recorded roars of zoo lions and tigers, subsequently played backwards slowly. Spivak himself provided Kong&"love grunts" by grunting into a megaphone and playing it at a slow speed. For the huge ape&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...