King Kong (1933)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Alien Worlds no.15 (1965) (USA)
illustrated article (King Kong: classic or catastrophe? by John Ramsey Campbell and Michel Parry)

American Cinemeditor vol.26 no.4 (December 1976) pp.8-11 (USA)
article

American Cinematographer vol.58 no.1 (January 1977) pp.60-63, 64-65, 96; 66-67 (USA)
illustrated article (The making of the original King Kong (excerpted from The Making of King Kong by O. Goldner and G.E. Turner); illustrated article (King Kong - then and now by Harold Wellman)

American Cinematographer vol.64 no.8 (August 1983) pp.48, 97-99; 49, 99-101 (USA)
illustrated article (Kong with the wind? by Paul R. Mandell); illustrated article (Viva Kong! by George E. Turner)

American Cinematographer vol.70 no.1 (January 1989) pp.78-83 (USA)
illustrated article (Old King Kong gets face lift by Scott MacQueen)

American Classic Screen vol.2 no.1 (September 1977) pp.15-16 (USA)
article

American Film vol.12 no.3 (December 1986) p.58 (USA)
article

Art Monthly no.251 (November 2001) pp.29-30 (UK)
illustrated article (Exhibitions: Peter Friedl by Michael Ellis)

L'Avant-Scène du Cinéma no.174 (15 October 1976) p.2 (France)
reprinted article

Black Film Review vol.3 no.1 (December 1986) pp.20-21 (USA)
illustrated article (Racial imagery in King Kong by Bruce M. Tyler)

Black Filmmaker vol.3 no.9 (June 2000) pp.16-17, 29 (UK)
illustrated article (Panic in the streets by Sonali Bhattacharyya)

Cahiers du Cinéma no.166 / 167 (May 1965) p.65 (France)
review

Cahiers du Cinéma no.490 (April 1995) pp.44-47 (France)
illustrated article (Un drame de la sauvagerie by Yann Lardeau)

Cahiers du Cinéma Hors serie (1995) p.129 (France)
soundtrack review (Max Steiner: King Kong by Nicolas Saada)

Cinefantastique vol.19 no.5 (July 1989) p.48
credits, review (The old gray ape gets a coat of computer-generated paint by Dann Gire)

Cinefex no.58 (June 1994) pp.97-98 (USA)
illustrated article (Kong reenergized by Paul Mandell)

The Cinema Booking Guide Supplement vol.3 no.9 (July 1933) p.16 (USA)
credits, review

CinémAction no.114 (January 2005) pp.39-43 (France)
illustrated article (Cinquante couples insolites by Albert Montagne)

La Cinématographie Française no.2019 (8 June 1963) p.12 (France)
review

City Limits no.253 (7 August 1986) p.23 (UK)
review

Classic Images no.146 (August 1987) pp.15-17 (USA)
illustrated review (King Kong: masterpiece of adventure by Tony Crnkovich)

Classic Images no.205 (July 1992) pp.C8-C10, C12 (USA)
illustrated article (King Kong: The ultimate fantasy by Justin Clayton)

Classic Images no.273 (March 1998) p.43 (USA)
soundtrack review (King Kong soundtrack released by Robert K. Klepper)

Classic Images no.277 (July 1998) pp.8, 10 (USA)
illustrated article (Kong conquers Omaha by Michael Beacom)

Classic Images no.306 (December 2000) pp.72-74 (USA)
illustrated interview with Fay Wray (Fay Wray: interviewing a legend by Jeffrey M. Rolick)

Classic Images no.337 (July 2003) p.16 (USA)
note (Vintage Poster Art Auction at Cinevent)

Closeup no.3 (January 1977)
illustrated articles

Critical Inquiry vol.22 no.3 (1996) pp.415-445 (USA)
illustrated article (Making it big: picturing the radio age in King Kong by Mark Mcgurl)

Dirigido Por no.279 (May 1999) pp.50-51 (Spain)
illustrated review (by Angel Quintana)

Discourse vol.22 no.2 (April 2000) pp.104-126 (USA)
illustrated article (King Kong: one more interpretation, or, what cinema tells about itself by Helmut Färber)

Empire no.131 (May 2000) p.149 (UK)
soundtrack review (Soundtracks by Neil Jeffries)

Empire no.181 (July 2004) pp.160-161 (UK)
illustrated review (Remote control: RWD masterpiece by Kim Newman)

Empire Special: The Ten Most Influential Action Films of All Time (June 2003) pp.47-51 (UK)
illustrated article (by Ian Freer et al)

Film History vol.6 no.3 (October 1994) pp.314-339 (USA)
illustrated article (White heroines and hearts of darkness: race, gender and disguise in 1930s jungle films by Rhonda J. Berenstein)

Film Review no.604 (April 2001) p.92 (UK)
DVD review (by TR)

Film Score Monthly vol.3 no.3 (March 1998) p.45 (USA)
soundtrack review (Score: reviews of current releases on CD: The ninth wonder of the world by Jeff Bond)

Filmfax no.67 (June / July 1998) pp.32+ (USA)
illustrated article (King Kong by David J. Hogan)

Filmfax no.78 (April / May 2000) pp.30, 32 (USA)
soundtrack review (King Kong by Harry H. Long)

Films and Filming no.384 (September 1986) p.36 (UK)
review (by Philip Strick)

Films Illustrated vol.6 no.66 (February 1977) pp.222-225 (UK)
illustrated article (Return of the urban gorilla - the two Kongs: a comparative review by K. Thompson)

Filmvilag vol.37 no.8 (1994) pp.16-22 (Hungary)
illustrated article (Hulloesztetika by Jeno Kiraly)

Filmvilag vol.37 no.9 (1994) pp.48-55 (Hungary)
illustrated article (A ferfi - mint majom - panaszai by Jeno Kiraly)

Filmvilag vol.37 no.10 (1994) pp.26-32 (Hungary)
illustrated article (A nyers es a hamu by Jeno Kiraly)

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television vol.19 no.3 (August 1999) pp.409-411 (USA)
book review (review of Cynthia Erb's Tracking King Kong: a Hollywood icon in world culture by Julian Stringer)

The Hollywood Reporter vol.243 no.9 (14 September 1976) p.13 (UK)
article

The Hollywood Reporter vol.277 no.7 (31 May 1983) p.3 (USA)
note

The Incroyable Cinema June 1969 pp.20-24 (UK)
illustrated article (King Kong: classic or catastrophe? by John Ramsey Campbell and Michel Parry (reprint from Alien Worlds no.15 (1965))

Kinematograph Weekly no.1344 (30 March 1933) p.14B-14C; 24 (UK)
advert; note (New records for King Kong)

Kinematograph Weekly no.1355 (6 April 1933) pp.20-23; 24-25; 26 (UK)
adverts; illustrated article (Ten Big Pictures From Radio); illustrated notes (King Kong creates a sensation; Man who made King Kong possible; Unusual poser for American scientists)

Kinematograph Weekly no.1356 (13 April 1933) p.4 (UK)
note (Long Shots by S.G. Newman)

Kinematograph Weekly no.2075 (23 January 1947) p.14 (UK)
review

Kinematograph Weekly no.2355 (14 August 1952) p.23 (UK)
review

Kino vol.35 no.12 (December 2001) pp.47-51 (Poland)
illustrated article (King Kong a sprawa polska by Roman Wlodek)

Midi-Minuit Fantastique no.3 (October 1962) pp.16; 17; 29
illustrated article; review; bibliography

Midnight Marquee no.57 (Summer 1998) pp.48-49 (USA)
illustrated article (An evening with Fay Wray and King Kong! by Cindy Ruth Collins)

Monsters from the Vault no.9 (2004) pp.6-13 (USA)
illustrated interview with Bob Burns (Kongversations: Bob Burns Remembers His Encounters With the Men Who Made King Kong - Part One by Tom Weaver); illustrated article (Queryin' Merian: The Man Who Made King Kong Fields Questions About His Amazing Movie Career)

Monsters from the Vault no.10 (2004) pp.24-26 (USA)
illustrated interview with Bob Burns (Kongversations: Bob Burns Remembers His Encounters With the Men Who Made King Kong - Part Two by Tom Weaver); illustrated article (Merian C. Cooper & Fay Wray Speak Out on King Kong)

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.14 no.158 (February 1947) p.23 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Movie Maker vol.11 no.3 (March 1977) pp.184-185 (UK)
review (Which Kong is king? by Tony Rose)

Movie Maker vol.11 no.9 (September 1977) p.711 (UK)
letter

Music From the Movies no.26 (April 2000) p.38 (USA)
illustrated soundtrack review (Film music review: archival old films by Andrew Keech)

Nosferatu: Revista de Cine no.23 (January 1997) pp.4-6 (Spain)
illustrated article (El rapto de la bestia by Fernando Savater)

Photoplay vol.43 no.6 (May 1933) p.46 (USA)
review

The Picturegoer vol.3 no.120 (9 September 1933) p.26 (UK)
review

Positif no.479 (January 2001) pp.55-56 (France)
Book review (review of Roger Dadoun's Cinema, psychanalyse et politique; King Kong by Philippe Rouyer)

Quarterly Review of Film Studies vol.1 no.4 (November 1976) pp.373-387 (USA)
article (King Kong and the ideology of spectacle by Judith Mayne)

Radio Times vol.233 no.3027 (14 November 1981) p.191 (UK)
illustrated article (by John Baxter)

Radio Times vol.254 no.3323 (August 1987) p.72 (UK)
letter

Sight and Sound vol.4 no.8 (August 1994) p.62 (UK)
video review

Starburst Special no.15 (April 1993) pp.4-9 (UK)
illustrated article (Long live King Kong by Howard Maxford)

Starlog no.194 (September 1993)
interview with Gil Perkins (Kong Conversations by Tom Weaver)

Take One vol.5 no.6 (January 1977) p.23 (USA)
review

Today's Cinema vol.68 no.5450 (22 January 1947) (UK)
review

Today's Cinema vol.79 no.6562 (7 August 1952) (UK)
review

Trafic no.34 (Summer 2000) pp.88-107 (France)
illustrated article (King Kong: comment le cinema se raconte lui-meme by Helmut Färber)

Vertigo: Revue d'Esthetique et d'Histoire du Cinema no.19 (1999) pp.119-123 (France)
illustrated article (Deliquescence d'une chimere by Raphaelle Moine)

NEWSPAPERS

Diário de Notícias 3 April 2000 p.55
review

The New York Times vol.142 (28 February 1993) p.13 section 2 (USA)
illustrated article (Kong and Wray: 60 years of love by Aljean Harmetz)

BOOKS

Creature Features Strikes Again by John Stanley p.216
credits, review

Cult Movies: a Hundred Ways to Find the Reel Thing by Danny Peary (London: Vermilion (1982))
review

Cult Movies: the Classics, the Sleepers, the Weird and the Wonderful by Danny Peary (New York: Dell Publishing Company (1981))
review

Kong: King of Skull Island by Brad Strickland and Joe DeVito (DH Press (2004)  ISBN: 159582006x)
illustrated articles

The Making of King Kong (New York: Ballantine Books (1976)  ISBN: 0345251342395)
illustrated articles

OTHER SOURCES

British National Film Catalogue vol.18 (June 1981) (UK)
credits

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009