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Gordon broke into filmmaking thanks to cheapening technology and better access to equipment. "I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

"There was never the guild-delineated sense of job specialization I've found in the formal film industry. Before moving to LA it hadn't occurred to me that you did anything other than all the jobs required to get a project finished."

Before cracking into the story of Kong, he'd been a graphic designer, a cinematographer, an art director, an edit and a producer, so director was the next logical step.

And though it might seem from the finished film, Seth Gordon didn't originally set out to focus on the conflict that now forms the spine for King Of Kong.

No, he was just interested in the general world of players, and spent months just shooting various rivalries and interviews.

"As some documentaries go, we had no plans for which story we were going to cover," he says.

"The Pac-Man story is great. The Centipede story is great. The Q-Bert story. So we were simultaneously covering all of these.

Although I wasn't that well-acquainted with Kong. But I knew that almost all roads lead to Billy Mitchell."

It wasn't quite that easy, though...

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