On 2 March 1933 “King Kong” film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premiered at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC.  Special effects were by Willis H. O’Brien and music by Max Steiner.

 In 1991, it was deemed “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2010 it was ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time and the fifty-sixth greatest film of all time.

The prehistoric creatures inhabiting Skull Island were brought to life through the use of stop-motion animation by Willis H. O’Brien and his assistant animators, E. B. “Buzz” Gibson, Carroll Shepphird, Marcel Delgado, Orville Goldner, and Fred Reefe.

Murray Spivack developed the sound effects for the film. Kong’s roar was created by mixing the recorded vocals of lions and tigers and slowly playing them backward. Spivak himself provided Kong’s “love grunts” by grunting into a megaphone and playing it at a slow speed.