FILM

APPRECIATION 
 INTRODUCTION 

 During the 1930s, many genres went from strength to strength, and a new
generation of stars, including Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Joan
Crawford, Spencer Tracy, and Clark Gable, transfixed viewers. The decade
of the 1930s in film involved many significant films.

 The year 1939, in particular, was one of the biggest years (and is still
considered one of the greatest years) in Hollywood with MGM’s release of
Gone with the wind and The wizard of Oz. 
 SUMMARY
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and
has the perfect location: Skull Island. But he
still needs to find a leading lady. Master
showman Carl Denham has fallen on hard
times due to the depression, and mounts an
expedition to the mysterious  Island to find
another showpiece. . Arriving on the island,
they discover it is home to gigantic beasts
like dinosaurs, and ruling over all is Kong, a
30 foot tall gorilla.
 Carl Denham is a producer and director of adventure films
specializing in remote and exotic locations. He sets off to a
remote island, uncharted except for a map he purchased from a

SYNOPSIS seaman. He hires a ship and with the star of his film, Ann
Darrell, he sets off to Skull Island where there supposedly lives
a large ape known as Kong. Thie island itself is is divided and

OF KEY the giant ape lives behind a great wall. When the local islanders
kidnap Ann to offer her as a sacrifice, Denham and John
Dricsoll set off to rescue her. 

EVENTS
OF THE It's obvious that Kong is fascinated with Ann and means her no
harm but Dehnam gasses the beast and transports it to New

MOVIE
York where he puts it on display. When it manages to escape, it
terrorizes the city, climbing to the top of the Empire State
building where it must confront air force planes trying to shoot
it down.
 FILM CRITICS
King Kong is a brilliantly structured
adventure movie.
The first 40 minutes are all set-up, as
wildlife documentary filmmaker Carl
Denham sets sail for the South Seas in
search of a rumored fabulous beast, taking
along apple-filching Depression waif Ann
Darrow because exhibitors have told him
his movies won't make any money unless
there's a love interest.
 SYNOPSIS 
Actress Ann Darrow (Fay Wray) and director Carl
Denham (Robert Armstrong) travel to the Indian Ocean
to do location shoots for Denham's new jungle picture.
Along the way, the actress meets and falls for rugged
First Mate John Driscoll (Bruce Cabot). Upon arriving at
a mysterious island, Ann is taken hostage by natives who
prepare her as a sacrifice to the enormous ape Kong who
rules over their jungle. But when Ann is rescued and
Kong is captured, the real trouble begins.
BEST 15 MINS OF THE MOVIE
TECHNOLOGY CHANGES
WORLD EVENTS RELATION TO THE
FILM

 A metaphor for racism

Colonialism 
 The first King Kong film was
released in 1933 with great amount
PROMINENT of success. 

FIGURE
The movie focused on a film crew
who visited Skull Island and
discovered a monster in their paths,
also known as King Kong.
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TECHNIQUES
 CONCLUSION 

King Kong is a 1933 American pre Code adventure fantasy horror monster film directed and

produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay by James Ashmore
Creelman and Ruth Rose was developed from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar
Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong and Bruce Cabot, and tells the story of a giant
ape dubbed Kong who attempts to possess a beautiful young woman. It features stop-motion
animation by Willis O'Brien and a music score by Max Steiner. It is the first entry in the King
Kong franchise.King Kong is a warning against mankind’s desire to exploit Nature for
personal gain. He is personified as the unbridled force of nature, which when belittled by men,
unleashes a fury that has severe repercussions.  Ironically though in every Kong movie till 
date there have been 8 so far — the ‘beast’ exudes more empathy than other ‘human’ beings. 
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