Reporter Edward Malone is assigned to write a report about the lecture, in which Professor Challenger declares that he is ready to prove the existence of living dinosaurs. For this he needs volunteers to take part in the expedition. Volunteers become Professor Summerlee, sir John rokston and Malone. The expedition also involved Paul white, daughter of the deceased Explorer Maple white's diaries which is guided by the Challenger. The expedition, passing EN route to white, discovers in the Amazon basin isolated plateau.
The Lost World
| Year | 1925 |
|---|---|
| Country | USA |
| Tagline | See the mighty prehistoric monsters clash with modern lovers in a most remarkable story of love, romance and amazing adventure |
| Director | Harry O. Hoyt |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Scriptwriters | Marion FairfaxArthur Conan Doyle |
| Produced | Scott MacQueenDavid ShepardEarl Hudson |
| Music | Robert IsraelR.J. MillerCecil Copping |
| Art Direction | Milton Menasco |
| Editing | George McGuire |
| Genres | FantasyAdventure |
| Release Date | February 2, 1925 |
| Runtime | 106 min. |
Plot Summary
Did You Know?
Based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle "the Lost world".
The film largely became a benefit specialist time-lapse photography of Willis O'brien created the dinosaurs took almost most of the screen time and became the main reason for the Grand success of the picture.
Conan Doyle, to whom the adaptation was very much pleased, showed fragments at one of the meetings of the society of American magicians, defaults and omissions by convincing the audience that this is documentary footage of real dinosaurs.
"The lost world" was the first film shown to passengers it was exhibited in April 1925, during a flight from London to Paris.
The film's success nearly led to its destruction after the onset of sound film in 1929 it was decided to make the voiced version, and the producers of the film agreed that all silent copies of the film and foreign language the negatives are collected and destroyed and left only the original negative. To create an audio version of it never reached, but with the destruction of copies of the film company First National Pictures have coped quite well. As expected, the original negative was subsequently lost. Now the film is known to only a few incidental American and foreign-language copies, as a rule, greatly reduced the mounting options.
Dinosaur models were created based on the paintings of Charles knight.
