The skeletal structure of filmdom’s most famous ape King Kong goes on the auction block!
The metal ball and joint miniature armature machined by Marcel Delagado and then built up with rubber and foam, muscles and covered with rabbits hair was brought to life in the classic 1933 by master stop-motion animator Willis O’Brien is being offered by famed auction house Christies.
At the height of the depression movie-goers lined up a round the clock to see Fay Wray menaced by the greatest ape unspool at movie houses across the country, shattering all box-office records .
Kong was the only film to play Manhattan’s two largest movie palaces simultaneously: the long gone Roxy and Radio City Musical Hall.
A Christies spokesman said the 18 inch monster’s fur had long rotted away, leaving Kong a mere skeleton of himself when he goes on sale next month.
"Despite two official lackluster remakes and several sequels, the original King Kong, is the still quite possibly the greatest movie EVER made, " a noted Hollywood historian told the ENQUIRER.
Christie’s said it hopes to get up to $240,000 from the Kong sized-sale. True fans can begin to bid at the auctioneer’s popular culture sale Nov. 24.
