 This original version was released four times between 1933 and 1952,  and each release saw the cutting of additional scenes. Though many  of the outtakes (including the censored sequence in which Kong peels  off Wray, Fay (qv)s clothes) were restored in 1971, one cut scene  has never been found. It is the clip in which Kong shakes four  sailors off a log bridge, causing them to fall into a ravine where  they are eaten alive by giant spiders. When the movie (with spider  sequence intact) was previewed in San Bernardino, California, in  late January 1933, members of the audience screamed and either left  the theatre or talked about the grisly sequence throughout the  remainder of the film. Said the films producer,  Cooper, Merian C. (qv), "It stopped the picture cold, so the next  day back at the studio, I took it out myself."