Viewers were n’t looking for realism when they bought ticket to see in 1933 . The pic , which feature a giant imitator fighting a dinosaur and scale a skyscraper , used limited effects to transport audiences to a dissimilar macrocosm . It was a fantastical storey , but to anyone familiar with the real freak - hunting mission that occupy place six years before , it was n’t as original as it seemed .
grant toSlate , a 1926 sashay to the East Indies funded by the American Museum of Natural History found the seed forKing Kong . The company , led by museum trustee William Douglas Burden , set off with the goal of recording footage ofKomodo dragonsand bringing specimens back to the U.S. for the first metre .
In addition to the many lizards that were hunted and shot , the dispatch brought back two live Komodo dragons that ended up at theBronx Zoo . ten-spot of thousands of witness go to see the keep dinosaurs in person . In a pre - King Kongworld , the showing was the closest people could get to seeing a freak with their own eyes .
The storey of the trip to the East Indies captivated many people back home , including screenwriter Merian C. Cooper . Cooper was a supporter of Burden ’s , and hearing Burden recite his escapade abroad reportedly cheer Cooper to writeKing Kong . The movie ’s plot bears some similarities to the story : A team of explorers capture a mysterious monster from a remote island and turn it into a tourist attracter in New York City . Cooper may have take other elements from existent life — like the womanhood ( Burden ’s wife ) on the East Indies trip , and even theKinKomodo — and work them into the book as well .
you could watch footage of the Komodo - hunting expedition that enliven the original ogre movie above .
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