{"id":60087,"date":"2026-05-23T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/?p=60087"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:53:55","slug":"kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/kong","title":{"rendered":"KONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I quite enjoy going to charity book fairs &#8211; there are a couple of groups in the region who coordinate them as fund raising for charities. People donate books &#038; once a year they sell them all&#8230; This morning I went to the Lions Book Fair at Waikanae, a half hour drive from my house&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from scoring all these great books (best was a book called FILM AS FILM &#8211; Experimental Film 1910-1975, as well as some fascinating NZ history photo books)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/Books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/Books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"824\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/Books.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/Books-740x508.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/Books-768x527.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also got a couple of DVDs:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/DVDs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/DVDs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/DVDs.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/DVDs-740x474.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/TPuploads\/2026\/05\/DVDs-768x492.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course the Kong Production Diaries are all available online, and while its funny to skip through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZB6ymZHYZ9g\">production documentation to see Peter Jackson go from being full of energy on day 1 of the shoot, to the utter exhaustion at the end<\/a>, its also so good to see the documentation of the sound team, especially dear old Hoppy &#8211; Mike Hopkins RIP<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"King Kong (Naomi Watts, Jack Black) | Creating the Sound Effects | Bonus Feature\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hA5eIJnliyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I quite enjoy going to charity book fairs &#8211; there are a couple of groups in the region who coordinate them as fund raising for charities. People donate books &#038; once a year they sell them all&#8230; This morning I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60090,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60087\/revisions\/60090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}