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V GEORGE TURNERyFor months newspapers and magazines were loaded with interviews with a '’hap named Carmen Nigro, also known as Ken Roady. who claims to have been the original King Kong ' Now that this claim has been pretty thoroughly shot down by the makers oi the original movie, who are well aware that no human being was employed to portray the famous prehistoric gorilla, another cock-and-bull storv has sur-wfaced This one is put forth by one Bill Atwood, who identifies himself as one of the stunt pilots used in the climactic scenes in which Kong is shot down from the top of the Empire State Building According to Atwood, these scenes were made on location at Burbank using a duplicate of the top of the Empire State Building 100 feet high. Kong, of course was a man in a gorilla suit Why this man didn't look awfully small compared to the airplanes is not explained The fact is that the airplane scenes were filmed in New' York using U. S Navy pursuit planes and pilots maneuvering around the real Empire State Building These shots were intercut with scenes of miniature airplanes with a miniature (18-inch) Kong on a miniature building A mock-up of the top of the building was built in the studio for closeups of Fay Wray. Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong after Kong's fall.
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Amarillo Globe Times
Amarillo, Texas, US
Fri, Jan 14, 1977
Page 10
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