Lot Essay
Art by Roland Coudon.
An indisputably timeless movie masterpiece re-released every five years up to 1956 due to its enormous popularity. The stop-motion animation effects by Willis H.O'Brien are as breathtaking today as they were in 1933. One of the icons of American film history few people of any age have not heard of or seen King Kong. This American fairytale of the depression era is a Freudian retelling of Beauty and The Beast. Original American posters for King Kong can command in excess of 50,000.
An indisputably timeless movie masterpiece re-released every five years up to 1956 due to its enormous popularity. The stop-motion animation effects by Willis H.O'Brien are as breathtaking today as they were in 1933. One of the icons of American film history few people of any age have not heard of or seen King Kong. This American fairytale of the depression era is a Freudian retelling of Beauty and The Beast. Original American posters for King Kong can command in excess of 50,000.