Arsinoitherium

The ***Arsinoitherium*** is a creature that ended up on the cutting room floor. At one point it was meant to chase the sailors across the log and kept them trapped between itself and Kong (early version of the Kong script).

It is refereed to as a "huge two horned beast, (Arsinoitherium) in the script.

The scene was filmed with sailors but then Cooper who was a perfectionist requested that the creature be replaced with the Styracosaurus instead which also ultimately did not appear in the final film.

Like the Arsinoitherium, the Styracosaurus would have tried to dislodge the log with it's nasal horn. Both versions were removed for capturing audience's attention diverting from the main story line.

## Gallery

Traps the chilean sailors (six inch models) on the log. (Creation)Various Models
## Script

EXT. LOG - RAVINE - FULL SHOT - DAY

The remaining men run towards a deep ravine, across which a huge tree has fallen. Ravine is background. Kong is crossing this log with the girl, right to left. Men run in left to right. They stop at seeing Kong, then turn back to see --

EXT. RAVINE - LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

SHOT looking away from ravine, over men's heads. Men in foreground. In the background may be seen entering a **huge two** **horned beast**, (**Arsinoitherium**). He is rooting in the ground.

He lifts his head, sniffs, smelling the men. He begins to lumber towards them with gathering speed. They run out, left to right.

EXT. LOG  - FULL SHOT - DAY

The men run in from left to right, led by Driscoll. He waves them on. In the foreground is a huge tree. In the background is the big fallen tree across the ravine. He passes this tree to camera right, and reappears from camera right crossing the log. The men follow, shouting.

EXT. CLEARING - FULL SHOT - DAY

Kong comes into a clearing, in the foreground of which is a high dead tree. He hears the shouts of the men behind.

 EXT. CLEARING - MEDIUM SHOT - DAY

 He puts the girl down in the top of the dead tree, snarls, and turns back to attack the men.

EXT. CLEARING - FULL SHOT - DAY

He goes back to attack the men, leaving the girl in the top of the dead tree.

EXT. JUNGLE POOL - FULL SHOT - DAY

Kong goes back along the pool towards the ravine.

EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

Driscoll enters from camera left, waves the men on. In this shot, the log is seen in the background, extending across the ravine. In the foreground is a huge tree. The men follow

Driscoll about this tree to camera right and reappear on the log, entering from camera left. They start across it.

EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

The log itself is seen, with the men crossing it from camera right and going towards the other side of the ravine, Driscoll in the lead.

EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

REVERSE ANGLE as the men cross in the foreground, where the end of the log lies on the far side of the ravine. The men come off this end of the log onto the bank, in foreground,

faces camera. In the background, Denham can be seen. He is the last man and is about to cross when suddenly he sees something and shouts.

EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

Original angle with the men coming off log on the far side of the ravine. Kong appears from camera right to menace them.

 EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

Kong snarls at them.

EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

REVERSE ANGLE as Denham sees this and ducks back into the shrubbery out of sight. The men in the foreground also see Kong and run back across the log. Driscoll climbs over bank in the foreground.

EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

The log itself as the men run back across it, stumbling and falling, only to be stopped by --

EXT. LOG - LONG SHOT - DAY

-- the **two horned beast**, who is coming up to the log, which  is in the foreground, from camera left background. REVERSE ANGLE.

EXT. LOG - FULL SHOT - DAY

The top of the far bank, as the last of the men rush across the log. Driscoll climbs down over the bank, using a vine for support.

(Note. This angle may not be necessary now).

EXT. CAVE - LONG SHOT - DAY

Driscoll comes down on the vine along the side of the bank and steps into a cave in the side of the bank some ten feet below the top. He looks to see --

EXT. LOG  - FULL SHOT - DAY

The men running back on the log, towards the camera, with the ape coming up to the log on the far bank, menacing them. This the original angle.

EXT. LOG - SEMI CLOSE UP - DAY

Kong menaces them.  His face leaps up into the camera.

EXT. LOG - SEMI CLOSE UP - DAY

The sailor in the black sweater, on the log, horrified as he sees this.

EXT. LOG - LONG SHOT - DAY

The log itself, no **beasts** in the shot. The men see the **horned beast** off screen and retreat only to be stopped by Kong off screen.