Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
You know, back in the late 1950’s, Willis O’Brien, a stop-motion animator, had an idea to let King Kong make a comeback. Have him fight a giant Frankenstein Monster made up of animal parts in San Francisco. He wrote a script and sent it to John Beck, a film producer, and screwed him over and the result, was “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1962). Obie was upset and Merrian C. Cooper, the man who created King Kong back in 1933, was livid! However, back in Japan, good old Eiji Tsuburaya, who is a big fan of the original “King Kong”, that he got inspired to pay homage to the film in his films and TV shows, decided to add in stop-motion animation in a few scenes. They were animated by Minoru Nakano. Here is proof. archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2031%20No%201-2%20%28Feb%201999%29/page/n105/mode/2upRemember last week, when I talked about faking stop-motion by turning the camera on high speed? Well guess what, they tried that again in one scene from “Mothra vs. Godzilla” (1964), with the puppets of Mother and Godzilla, and in one scene from “Godzilla vs. Hedorah” (1971), where Godzilla was grabbing Hedorah and was swinging him round in circles before letting go. Yeah, stop-motion is hard to fake in live-action. Enjoy. (All copyrights acknowledged.) (For research and archival purposes only.)#StopMotionRarities #KingKongVsGodzilla #MinoruNakano
You know, back in the late 1950’s, Willis O’Brien, a stop-motion animator, had an idea to let King Kong make a comeback. Have him fight a giant Frankenstein Monster made up of animal parts in San Francisco. He wrote a script and sent it to John Beck, a film producer, and screwed him over and the result, was “King Kong vs. Godzilla” (1962). Obie was upset and Merrian C. Cooper, the man who created King Kong back in 1933, was livid! However, back in Japan, good old Eiji Tsuburaya, who is a big fan of the original “King Kong”, that he got inspired to pay homage to the film in his films and TV shows, decided to add in stop-motion animation in a few scenes. They were animated by Minoru Nakano. Here is proof. archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2031%20No%201-2%20%28Feb%201999%29/page/n105/mode/2upRemember last week, when I talked about faking stop-motion by turning the camera on high speed? Well guess what, they tried that again in one scene from “Mothra vs. Godzilla” (1964), with the puppets of Mother and Godzilla, and in one scene from “Godzilla vs. Hedorah” (1971), where Godzilla was grabbing Hedorah and was swinging him round in circles before letting go. Yeah, stop-motion is hard to fake in live-action. Enjoy. (All copyrights acknowledged.) (For research and archival purposes only.)#StopMotionRarities #KingKongVsGodzilla #MinoruNakano
