It seems plausible that at least one these four audio tracks (2 composite negatives and 2 sound only negatives) would be a music and effects track that was used for the European sound mixes (or perhaps a mixed foreign track). Over the years I've come across some tantalizing facts: the BFI (British Film Institute) has 2 complete 1933, combined (sound and picture), 35mm nitrate negatives and 2 complete 1933, sound only, 35mm nitrate negative tracks. But it never stopped my dreaming of a Hi-Rez digital copy of the complete score of KING KONG (Note: thank you Ray for your magnificent mastering of a significant portion of the original score on CD. But my company had no rights to KING KONG and so I never got to work on it directly. Obviously, it was only made possible when I was able to locate the original music and effects tracks (unfortunately Fox, in a cost-cutting move, destroyed most of their materials in the UK to save money on storing what they assumed were just additional inferior copies of their Hollywood-based materials). I personally loved this feature and promoted it shamelessly. It started when I was doing the mastering of films for 20th Century Fox home video and we used to include a separate, synchronous track on the laser disks and DVDs of the music or music and effects track. This thread is reinitiating a number of niggling thoughts that have poked, prodded and/or plagued me over a number of years, over many years. It has been screened theatrically but is, as far as I know, not available on home video.Īre you sure about this? I made an effort to locate one of these prints in Germany several years ago and it turned out that the report I followed up was incorrect and that the screening had not shown the original German dubbed KING KONG but the more recently (I believe in the 1950s it was redubbed in German) dubbed version.

4:08 PM - Jan 27The (severely edited) pre-war German version survives.

King kong trailer