New American Godzilla film

[mr.negativity]

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I don't think many here would be open minded enough to approve or accept the idea regardless of Writer, director, character design, or any of the other details we're all so preoccupied with.

True, D&E's attempt has soured the minds of most fans to the idea of an American Produced Godzilla movie..

But to say "One Chance" is a bit extreme, IMO.

[walshbeme]

[orsonzilla]

[Xenorama]

actually, the first time i saw KING KONG (1933) was after kino came out, but the tv print was complete and uncut, ran 100 minutes just like the theatrical version in '33. having the book "The Making of King Kong" and having read it several times by then, i knew exactly what was supposed to be in it. i never saw the cut 90 minute version until i saw it on the big screen in about 1991 or so, which surprised me that that version was even in existance any more.

so there was a "real" print out there for tv stations in the late 70s.

i hope there's no new gino.

David

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[armandv]

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[August]

Here's the scoop on the '33 KING KONG from someone that remembers the discovery of the missing footage in the 1970s (for anyone who is still paying attention or cares):

In 1939, when KING KONG was re-released, the Hayes Office was in full swing. The Hayes Office was essentially a censorship board that started the Motion Picture Code. When KONG was made in 1933, there was no Hayes Office and no censorship office, so there were some very violent and risque things in the film, which didn't pass muster in 1939, and there were several edits made to the film.

These included close-ups of Kong with people in his mouth, peeling off Fay Ray's clothes, stomping on and biting the heads off Skull Island natives, dropping the brunette to her death, etc. (The infamous "Spider Pit" sequence was edited before KONG was first released in 1933 and is not longer extant.)

This edited version was the only version circulated for decades, until someone found a can of 16mm footage with the missing footage in the mid-1970s (reportedly, as the legend goes, in a shed in Northern California). Even with the discovery, the version that continued to play on television was the 1939 version (some stations would even run the "lost footage" reel as a supplement to the broadcasts). Some time in 1978-1980, the 16mm footage was blown up to 35mm and reinstated into the film for theatrical screenings. When Ted Turner acquired RKO's library in the 1980s, his company issued this version for Home Video and Cable for the first time (it was a big deal back then).

When KONG was being restored for DVD release in 2005, a full-length, uncut 35mm negative (IIRC) of the 1933 version was found in the UK, which was the source used to produce the said DVD.

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