Actor in gorilla suit falls down

Kay spent a great deal of time inside movie theaters during the 1040s. Theaters often doubled as music venues, especially when Kay traveled with the small jazz ensemble "Dit's Dots," and also when she produced concerts which were also rallies to sell War Bonds.

Kay also went with Teeny Stockton to one of the two Black-owned movie picture houses in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood of St. Louis. The movies at this theater were terrible, but Kay used to say "You got a lot for your money," meaning that here would often be two or three B pictures in addition to the main feature. 

I don't know which of the movie theaters it was where Kay saw the 1944 movie "Nabonga," a poor man's version of "King Kong." But I have heard a snippet of a home recording of Kay and Teeny laughing about the moment in the film (at 1 hour, nine minutes, just after two shots from a pistol are fired at the ape) when the man in the gorilla suit falls down. He is supposed to be sneaking down a jungle path, and the fake grass on the studio floor, or perhaps his furry gorilla feet trip him up, and down he goes. Does the director keep filming? Yep. They just added a couple of extra meancing grunts and snarls to cover up the "oof" moment.