Willis O'Brien
... the most unlikely of film creatives
Not long after the release and the runaway success of Universal’s first horror films (Frankenstein and Dracula), RKO released their own breakout horror film… King Kong (1933). The story of the emergence of such an innovative film actually began almost two decades earlier with the development of the key creative, an unusual man named Willis O’Brien.
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