RECOMMENDED: 100th anniversary - The Lost World movie adaptation / 1925-2025 🦖 🌋 🎞️ 🇺🇸

 

„Silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. Directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien (an invaluable warm up for his work on the original King Kong directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack).” - publicdomainreview.org (2012)

„The original dinosaur blockbuster, the film that spawned the likes of King Kong, Godzilla and Jurassic Park was released in 1925 by First National Pictures. With stop-motion animation by legendary Willis O’Brien and cinematography by multiple Oscar nominee Arthur Edeson, the film is a beauty to behold, even if the plot and pacing suffers from director Harry Hoyt’s determination to get as much dino action into the picture as possible.” - scifist.net (2018)

„The Lost World represents a milestone of visual effects in film. With the talents of Willis O’Brien behind the camera developing the stop-motion techniques he would go on to perfect for 1933’s King Kong, this dinosaur-adventure themed sci-fi spectacle has been fully reinvigorated on HD BluRay thanks to Lobster Films, and is presented in as complete a version as is possible with the surviving film elements. For decades, much of The Lost World was considered lost – the public domain version ran just over an hour – until recent efforts to preserve and restore disparate reels of film presented us with a “re-edited” version which forms the basis of this review. Using alternative takes and shots derived from international prints of the film – the original negatives were destroyed back in the late 1920’s, at the behest of the producer’s widow (who owned the rights to the movie) and only First National, the original distributor, retained a print for archival purposes.” - fernbyfilms.com (2019)