They would edit the documentary footage to create sort of a fiction film based on real footage. They would go and film real people and real animals in exotic locations. ![]() And then he also ended up going into aviation when commercial aviation was in its infancy.ĭuring one of the expeditions that he went on, he and his partner made what they called “natural dramas.” They were sort of documentaries. And he and his partner, a guy named Ernest Schoedsack, started to make documentary films of these travels. He joined an explorer team and went around the world to all sorts of exotic places. And then he eventually became an explorer. Then he came back after the war and became a reporter for a while. He had been shot down a couple of times in both World War I and in the Polish-Russo War. He was born in Jacksonville, Fla., and went on to become a globetrotting adventurer, a really colorful guy. Kong was invented by a guy named Merian C. It turns out it was a fascinating journey to the 1933 blockbuster that started it all. With cinema’s favorite supersized ape marking his eighth return to the big screen in Kong: Skull Island, The Hollywood Reporter decided to consult a King Kong expert, author and film historian Ray Morton, to learn about his origins.
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