- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc (26 Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0899508332
- ISBN-13: 978-0899508337
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.9 x 1.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,131,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Provides a synopsis, film reviews and full credits for Willis O'Brien's movies.
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A Wonderful Biography of Kong's Father
23 Mar 2012
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This fills a niche much needed by fans of genre films. KINK KONG was the movie that saved RKO and paved the way and set the standard for all giant monster films to follow. It still shines far above every attempt at a remake, notwithstanding the strobe-like animation and other technical flaws. Kong had personality and power, and his jungle seems real. Never to be surpassed.
Willis O'Brien has been an idol to fans of stop-motion films. Without him, there may have been no Harryhausen or George Pal films. His life was a long tragedy, however. I for one am grateful that in spite of harrowing losses hand heartbreak, he left an enduring legacy of fantasy films. This book has it all.
Also recommended: The Making of King Kong by Turner and Goldner.
Willis O'Brien has been an idol to fans of stop-motion films. Without him, there may have been no Harryhausen or George Pal films. His life was a long tragedy, however. I for one am grateful that in spite of harrowing losses hand heartbreak, he left an enduring legacy of fantasy films. This book has it all.
Also recommended: The Making of King Kong by Turner and Goldner.
Valuable work about a neglected artist
8 Dec 2010
Format:Paperback
If I have any criticism of this work it is that it is not long enough... I thoroughly enjoyed it, and use it as a reference work frequently. I feel that Archer captures Willis O'Brien's unique personality. He was a multitalented person indeed. The interviews with his widow Darlyne O'Brien were very interesting and very valuable since I suspect that few researchers ever took the time to interview her about her husband and his marvelous inventions that improved motion picture technology substantially. He won an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement; this book by McFarland includes storyboards and synopses of television programs and films "Obie" would have loved to have made, if only he could have found the right producers. any one of them would have been a classic. O'Brien was grievously mistreated and neglected by the motion picture industry and his work ripped off too often; a case in this book is the King Kong Versus Godzilla film that was stolen from a treatment he had submitted and later made into a film by Toho.
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