<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (November 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (November 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> King Kong is well known for its groundbreaking use of special effects, such as stop - motion animation, matte painting, rear projection and miniatures, all of which were conceived decades before the digital age . </P> <P> The numerous prehistoric creatures inhabiting Skull Island were brought to life through the use of stop - motion animation by Willis O'Brien and his assistant animator, Buzz Gibson . The stop - motion animation scenes were painstaking and difficult to achieve and complete after the special effects crew realized that they could not stop, because it would make the movements of the creatures seem inconsistent and the lighting would not have the same intensity over the many days it took to fully animate a finished sequence . A device called the surface gauge was used in order to keep track of the stop - motion animation performance . The iconic fight between Kong and the Tyrannosaurus took seven weeks to be completed . O'Brien's protegé, Ray Harryhausen, who would work with him on several films and become one of the most prominent stop - motion animators in Hollywood, stated that O'Brien's second wife noticed that there was so much of her husband in Kong . </P>

Which technique was used in the 1933 film king kong to create the special effects