Pencil and charcoal on paper, mounted on illustration board

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Creation was an unrealised RKO film project which O’Brien worked on for over a year prior to King Kong. It provided the basis for the techniques which would be used in Kong and demonstrates O’Brien’s skills as an artist. The image is a precursor to the scene in King Kong where a pterodactyl tries to carry away Ann Darrow.

The story for Creation involved a yachting party and the crew of a Chilean submarine who are caught in a storm and are washed up on a land inhabited by dinosaurs.