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Fresh Air

The History Of King Kong & Godzilla

Fresh Air

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Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.434.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is the latest film starring two of cinema's biggest monsters. Today we take a look at the first time they were introduced to audiences. Film historian Rudy Behlmer tells us about the 1933 film King Kong. And Steve Ryfle wrote a book about the making of the 1954 Japanese film Godzilla.

Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews Civil War.

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This is fresh air. In the Warner Brothers film Godzilla Kong, The New Empire empire now in theaters, we get to see

0:25.0

two legendary screen monsters team up to save the world. On today's show we're

0:30.1

going to recall the origin of these roaring creatures with archive interviews

0:34.0

about their first appearances before movie audiences. First, King Kong.

0:38.7

Come on, I got him. He'll be out for hours.

0:44.0

Send to the ship, rancor chains and tools.

0:46.0

What are you going to do?

0:48.0

A better raft to plowd him to the ship.

0:49.0

Why the whole world will pay to see this?

0:51.0

No chains will ever hold that. We'll give her more than chains. He's always been king of his world, but we'll teach him fear.

0:57.5

We're millionaires boys, I'll share it with all of you. Why in a few months it'll be up in lights on Broadway, Kong, the eighth

1:05.6

Wonder of the World! That's a scene from the 1933 film King Kong. That was Robert Armstrong

1:12.4

as Carl Denham, the producer who journeys to

1:15.0

Skull Island and the Indian Ocean to capture the giant ape and bring him to

1:19.1

New York to star in his nightclub spectacle. King Kong was directed by Marion C. Cooper, who was himself an adventurer

1:26.1

and documentary filmmaker who traveled through Africa and East Asia. We're going to listen to Terry's interview

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