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Mighty Joe Young (also known as Mr. Joseph Young of Africa and The Great Joe Young) is a 1949 American black and white fantasy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by the same creative team responsible for King Kong (1933).
Mighty Joe Young is a 1998 American live-action epic adventure film based on the 1949 film of the same name ... For certain scenes, the filmmakers used three full ...
Pete Peterson, who changed to this name in 1945, worked as a grip at RKO studios in Hollywood in the 1940s and was assigned to work on Mighty Joe Young (1949) lighting the miniature sets where technical creator Willis H. O'Brien and his first technician Ray Harryhausen were creating the stop-motion animation of the title character.
Sabotage releases the creature, and it wreaks havoc on the town. The film features a roping scene reminiscent of 1949's Mighty Joe Young (which was itself recycled from the old Gwangi storyboards), and a spectacular fire and animation sequence inside a cathedral toward the end of the film, combining multiple special effects.
The song is central to the plot of the 1949 film Mighty Joe Young, as it is used throughout the film to calm the title character, a large gorilla. [13] The tune is a motif in the 1947 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, where Rosalind van Hoorn (Virginia Mayo) plays it at key points.
Willis Harold O'Brien (March 2, 1886 – November 8, 1962), known as Obie O'Brien, was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer, who according to ASIFA-Hollywood "was responsible for some of the best-known images in cinema history," and is best remembered for his work on The Lost World (1925), King Kong (1933), The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) and Mighty Joe ...
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I used to think that myself, and assuming that the live-action part of that scene was filmed before O'Brien, Harryhausen, and company spent nearly three yerars working on the effects, it just could have been Hatton, who died February 2, 1946.