The Lost World (1925 film)
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| Directed by | Harry Hoyt |
| Produced by | Earl Hudson (uncredited) |
| Screenplay by | Marion Fairfax |
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The Lost World (1912 novel) by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Starring |
Bessie Love Lewis Stone Wallace Beery Lloyd Hughes |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | George McGuire |
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| Distributed by | First National Pictures |
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106 minutes (original) 55 minutes (Kodascope 16 mm) 64 minutes (1991) 100 minutes (1998) 93 minutes (2000) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent film (English intertitles) |
| Budget | $700,000 |
| Box office | $1.3 million |
The Lost World is a 1925 silent fantasy monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel of the same name. The movie was produced by First National Pictures, a major Hollywood studio at the time, and stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. It was directed by Harry O. Hoyt and featured pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O'Brien, a forerunner of his work on the original King Kong. Doyle, who also created Sherlock Holmes, appears in a frontispiece to the film, absent from some extant prints.
In 1998, The Lost World was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Because of its age the film is in the public domain, and can be legally downloaded online.
From a lost expedition to a plateau in Venezuela, Paula White brings the journal of her father explorer Maple White to the eccentric Professor Challenger in London. The journal features sketches of dinosaurs which is enough proof for Challenger to publicly announce that dinosaurs still walk the earth. Met with ridicule at an academic meeting at the Zoological Hall, Challenger reluctantly accepts a newspaper's offer to finance a mission to rescue Maple White. Professor Challenger, Paula White, sportsman Sir John Roxton, news reporter Edward Malone (who is a friend of Roxton and wishes to go on the expedition to impress his fiancée), a sceptical professor Summerlee, an Indian servant Zambo, and Challenger's butler Austin leave for the plateau.
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