{"id":1336,"date":"2009-11-26T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T19:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2009-11-27T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T16:48:47","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-king-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving King Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wor60s1.gif' title='wor60s1.gif'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wor60s1.gif' alt='wor60s1.gif' \/><\/a><a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wor70s.jpg' title='wor70s.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/wor70s.jpg' alt='wor70s.jpg' \/><\/a>When I was a kid WOR TV out of NYC would show <em>King Kong<\/em> every Thanksgiving. I really looked forward to seeing those natives getting chewed up in Kong&#8217;s giant teeth and watching the unsuspecting elevated subway riders on their way home from a hard day&#8217;s work as Max Steiner&#8217;s locomotive tension music pulsated on the soundtrack, then Kong&#8217;s head would peep up in the hole he had just made in the tracks and the old engineer would throw on the brake! Too late!<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kong_001c.jpg' title='kong_001c.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kong_001c.jpg' alt='kong_001c.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Take the A Train!<\/em><br \/>\nOh well, I just read some where that the original armature of Kong sold recently at Southeby&#8217;s for like $200,000 , probably more that Willis O&#8217;Brien made in his lifetime.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/egyptian_kong_04.jpg' title='egyptian_kong_04.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/egyptian_kong_04.jpg' alt='egyptian_kong_04.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\nThat little metal skeleton that scared the hell out of millions of people acting out Mr. O&#8217;Briens brainwaves.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obie.jpg' title='obie.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obie.jpg' alt='obie.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Willis O&#8217;Brien and his little buddy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid WOR TV out of NYC would show King Kong every Thanksgiving. I really looked forward to seeing those natives getting chewed up in Kong&#8217;s giant teeth and watching the unsuspecting elevated subway riders on their way home from a hard day&#8217;s work as Max Steiner&#8217;s locomotive tension music pulsated on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}