The plot of King Kong involves a megalomaniacal film director ... Willis O'Brien and his team got to work on the monster. A chap called Marcel Delgado constructed the giant gorilla and the ...

That scene in the original 1933 “King Kong” is one of the most memorable ... ape was just an 18-inch model made by sculptor Marcel Delgado, who began working with O’Brien on “The Lost ...

Who makes the best monsters? It used to be a battle between the actors and the model-makers. Not any more. Perhaps inspired by Boris Karloff in King of the Kongo (1929), special effects wizards Willis ...