Hollywood Gorilla Men

Time 2020-11-22 01:05:51

Web Name: Hollywood Gorilla Men

WebSite: http://www.hollywoodgorillamen.com

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For those kids who were born in the early late 40's and early 50's TV was still a relatively new thing in their lives....especially COLOR programing !Yet in 1954, when there were very few color television sets around, there were a few high profile shows that stood out from the crowd by being shot in color.One such show was " The Cisco Kid" a heroic Mexican "Robin Hood" of sorts, who rode through the old West, stealing from corrupt wealthy villains, and giving to the poor and downtrodden.Cisco Kid has the distinction of being the very first TV series to be shot in color...Though most fans saw him in black and white until the 60's when color TV was much more commonplace.Cisco was played by the heroic and dashing Duncan Renaldo, with his faithful and comedic sidekickPancho, played by the great character actor Leo Carillo.The series was even immortalized in the 70's by the rock group WAR in their hit song " Cisco Kid" !By now you are likely scratching your head wondering what in the heck this has to do with Gorilla Men...Well, oddly enough, Cisco featured a gorilla .. Not just any gorilla, it was Steve Calvert inone of the suits he bought from Crash Corrigan. This suit had a new face, distinctive to Calvert.Not only do we see it in action as a gorilla...in color!...but we also get a fantastic glimpse of the suitAS a gorilla suit !!! You guessed it, the gorilla was a fake, used to scare people off in the finest tradition of Scooby Doo ! I won't spoil the fun, but you'll be asking yourself how much adventure can you cram into a half hour show!You can find the episode online if you'd like to give it a watch, the episode is called " Cisco MeetsThe Gorilla" .A huge thanks goes out to Craig Scott Lamb, founder of the FacebookApe Suit Cinema group for the followingscreen captures !!!Until next time Ape Amigos !Old Bongo's been up to no good (again), and stirring up trouble again!On our Facebook sister site Ape Suit Cinema I penned a follow-up on the legendary BS artistCarmen Nigro....The guy who claimed to have played the giant ape in the 1933 stop-motion classic King Kong. Here for your edification is the write up in it's entirety:The practice of identifying Gorilla actors has been the mission of Ape Suit Cinema, and sister site Hollywood Gorilla Men for decades. These hard working folks braved the intolerable heat and crushing weight of wearing gorilla suits to delight movie audiences since the beginning of motion picture history. one of the issues that has foiled our attempts time and again, is the amount of misinformation being put out by hoaxers and outright liars....Hollywood wannabe's desperate for a few minutes of fame.Carmen not only claimed publicly to having played gorillas in all the classics of Ape suit Cinema, ( when they are well documented to have been Crash Corrigan, Charlie Gemora, etc...) , but he upped the ante by claiming to have played the King himself in the 1933 classic, KING KONG !!!That's right, King Kong! Now King Kong has been documented in numerous books, documentaries, and more magazine articles than I can even list. King Kong was an 18 inch tall, steel, rubber, and rabbit fur stop motion animation puppet in every scene EXCEPT close-ups using full scale mechanical props of his head and shoulders, hand and foot. these were used for chomping, grabbing, and stomping humans respectively.At no time was the part of Kong ever played by a man in a suit in the 1933 film. Not until 1966's King Kong VS. Godzilla was Kong brought to life by a man in a suit.But this is exactly what Carmen Nigro would have you believe to hear him tell the tail. Rather than describe his claims myself, you can read it in his own words in the following newspaper articles written at the time of the 1976 Dino DeLaurentis re-make of King Kong...Which actually DID feature a man in a suit...The legendary Rick Baker!Here for your enjoyment is an epic BS story of Kong like proportions!Hi again Monkey Minions ! Today old Bongo goes WAAAAAAY to the back of the vaultin search of Gemora Gorilla Goodies from the dawn of cinema !Hey Gorilla Gang!Old Bongo here, working my way into a huge job of catch-up for being absent so long!To make it up to you, here are a trio of favorites from the Bongo Archive featuring The Legend himself.Bob "Tracy Kogar" Burns !Big gorilla brother bob shares a huge space in the hearts of Gorilla Man and myself for all the years of research and stills collecting he's done. So Without further ado, I give you Bob Burns !

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