A bizarre, historical collectible. It shows you just how far an alleged hoax can go! This is a cue card used on the air at a Philadelphia area TV station in 1976. The Dino De Laurentiis KING KONG was all the rage and out of the woodwork came this guy (Carmen Nigro) saying he was in the suit for the original KING KONG from 1933. A collectible oddity on a bizarre claim and story. This board is about 12 inches by 16 inches. Photo on the front was used on camera for the news story, the back script was for the anchor host to read.
On-line back story: "In the 1970's a man named Carmen Nigro came forward with a widely-publicised story that he had been a professional "ape-suit" actor in Hollywood in the 1930s-50s, and that he had actually played Kong in certain scenes where stop-motion models weren't used. He was denounced as an attention-seeking fraud by film historians and the surviving cast/crew of KING KONG."
