King Kong design (1933 film)

The RKOKongu is the King Kong (disambiguation) stop motion design used for King Kong (1933 film) and Son of Kong.

Name
The RKOKongu's name comes from the company who distributed the film known as RKO Pictures. Which they also released Son of Kong as well.

Detail
The RKOKongu design resembles a black-silverback gorilla The RKOKongu design also varies between knuckle-walking like a real gorilla and walking bipedally and upright like a human, sometimes utilizing both forms of locomotion in the same film.

In Son of Kong, one of the designs the RKOKongu was repainted to be more of a whitish-yellowish gorilla, in order to create the design of Kiko.

List of appearence

 * King Kong (1933 film) (first appearence)
 * Son of Kong (Major re-design)

Trivia

 * This is the first design of King Kong (disambiguation)
 * The design would actually be re-designed to make the son of King Kong, known as Kiko.
 * This is not the only King Kong design that was used for stopmotion, also the ShodaiKongu had one scene that was actually stopmotion
 * The RKOKongu, the ShodaiKongu, and the GoroKongu are so far the only 3 designs of King Kong to be used again.