'''''King Kong''''' is a 1933 film (made prior to the establishment of the [[Motion Picture Production Code|Hays Code]] in 1934) about a giant [[prehistoric]] [[gorilla]], [[King Kong (character)|the movie's title character]], that lives on Skull Island. The movie premiered on March 2, 1933 at two theatres in [[New York City]], Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy, followed by a Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on March 23 and then a general release on April 10 of that year. It was one of the first notable movies to make use of stop-motion animation special effects, decades before the advent and use of CGI digital technology for movie and television special effects. | '''''King Kong''''' is a 1933 film (made prior to the establishment of the [[Motion Picture Production Code|Hays Code]] in 1934) about a giant [[prehistoric]] [[gorilla]], [[King Kong (character)|the movie's title character]], that lives on Skull Island. The movie premiered on March 2, 1933 at two theatres in [[New York City]], Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy, followed by a Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on March 23 and then a general release on April 10 of that year. It was one of the first notable movies to make use of stop-motion animation special effects, decades before the advent and use of CGI digital technology for movie and television special effects. |