1929 'The King of the Kongo' Lobby Card Set Boris Karloff Not King Kong

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Up for auction is a set of 1929 lobby cards from the film serial "The King of the Kongo." The series starred an early Boris Karloff as "Scarface Macklin." Here is some information I found regarding the film: The King of the Kongo was the first film serial to have any sound element. Larger serial-producing studios (for example, Pathé and Universal Studios ) were reluctant to change away from silent production (although Universal released their own Part-Talking serial, Tarzan the Tiger , later in the same year) while smaller studios could not afford to do so. Legend has it that producer and studio-owner Nat Levine carried the sound discs in his lap from Los Angeles to New York City , by train and aeroplane, for them to be safely developed. For financial reasons, these discs could not have been repaired or replaced if anything had gone wrong. [1 ] This was two years after the first Part-Talking film, The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), had been released and a year after the first "All-Talking" film, Lights of New York ( 1928 ). Two versions of this serial were released, a "Part Talking" version and a silent version intended for theatres not yet equipped for sound. King of the Kongo is sometimes misreported as an alternate title for the serial King of the Wild , which also starred Boris Karloff. [4 Here's a rare chance to get the complete set read more

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