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King Kong at 90: In film and in comics

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Re: King Kong at 90: In film and in comics

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Post by jmclnx »

I remember seeing this on TV when I was young. For the time the effects were great.

Fun fact, after I first watched it, my father said he saw this in the theaters when first released as a teenager. When I was told this, I did not realize it was in the depression. His family was hit hard by the depression, so for him he probably has to give up something else to see it.

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Post by daltont »

jmclnx wrote: post #2

I remember seeing this on TV when I was young. For the time the effects were great. Fun fact, after I first watched it, my father said he saw this in the theaters when first released as a teenager. When I was told this, I did not realize it was in the depression. His family was hit hard by the depression, so for him he probably has to give up something else to see it.

My dad was born in 1931 and I remember him saying that oftentimes people went to movies in the late '30s just because they had air conditioning and most people did not.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

jmclnx wrote: post #2

I remember seeing this on TV when I was young. For the time the effects were great. Fun fact, after I first watched it, my father said he saw this in the theaters when first released as a teenager. When I was told this, I did not realize it was in the depression. His family was hit hard by the depression, so for him he probably has to give up something else to see it.

I had assumed movies were perhaps a nickel then — I was thinking of nickelodeons. But Wikipedia tells me the nickelodeon was an earlier phenomena from the decades before the Great Depression [1]. I suppose it's also possible movies were still a nickel in the 1930's but I don't know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_(movie_theater)

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Post by abrahamneben »

Guys, let’s all appreciate King Kong while being respectful of himself and his family at his advanced age. Kong suffered a stroke several years ago and has had difficulty swallowing buildings ever since. He lives in an assisted care facility and has periodic dementia. He doesn’t remember which cities he has terrorized, and doesn’t sign autographs anymore. He was asked to leave his prior nursing home after the staff complained about dozens of calls for autographs every hour. Kong was unable to attend People’s villains of the century gala last year, and asked Bigfoot to attend in his place. He asks that donations be made to the Kong facility for underprivileged super villains.

Re: King Kong at 90: In film and in comics

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Post by js2 »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5
jmclnx wrote: post #2

I remember seeing this on TV when I was young. For the time the effects were great. Fun fact, after I first watched it, my father said he saw this in the theaters when first released as a teenager. When I was told this, I did not realize it was in the depression. His family was hit hard by the depression, so for him he probably has to give up something else to see it.

I had assumed movies were perhaps a nickel then — I was thinking of nickelodeons. But Wikipedia tells me the nickelodeon was an earlier phenomena from the decades before the Great Depression [1]. I suppose it's also possible movies were still a nickel in the 1930's but I don't know. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_(movie_theater)

Looks like it was maybe $0.12 or so not adjusting for inflation if this chart is to be believed:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/over-100-years-of-averag...

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