
King Kong: Monster and Myth
In 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, two audacious and visionary directors, dared to create a motion picture that eclipsed everything seen until then: when King Kong was released, it was celebrated as an artistic and technical revolution and became the first myth created by the young cinematic art.
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Elsa Lepoivre
Self - Narrator (voice)

Ernest B. Schoedsack
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Merian C. Cooper
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Self (archive footage)

Ruth Rose
Self - Writer (archive footage)

Willis H. O'Brien
Self - Animator (archive footage)

Fay Wray
Self - Actress (archive footage)

Billy Crystal
Self - Actor (archive footage)
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