Just Like His Old Man: Son Of Kong (with Eddie Guimont)

Return to Skull Island back in 1933 with Eddie Guimont to see whether there's more to the overlooked SON OF KONG than you've heard. Topics include:

-UPDATE ON PERCY FAWCETT’s LOST CITY!
-Occult beliefs in Bolsonaro’s government
-Was Kong intended to be sympathetic?
-The origins & making of Son of Kong
-The real-life colonial adventures of Kong’s creators
-The social and economic world of Kong’s 1933
-The trope of the ancient lost monument-builders
-The ethnicity of the Skull Islanders
-Willis O’Brien’s special effects
-Lovecraft and Mysterious Islands

Links:
Jason Colavito on Percy Fawcett
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-plausible-explanation-for-the-lost-city-of-manuscript-512
Kong: The History Of A Movie Icon, Ray Morton, 2005
https://www.raymorton.com/books/king-kong-the-history-of-a-movie-icon-from-fay-wray-to-peter-jackson/
When The Stars Are Right, Edward Guimont and Horace A Smith
https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/nonfiction/when-the-stars-are-right-h.-p.-lovecraft-and-astronomy
From Crypto's to Kaiju, Justin Mullen (currently restricted access)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03080188241234141