“The Lost World” (1925) / Z-View

The Lost World (1925)

Director: Harry O. Hoyt

Screenplay: Marion Fairfax; based on THE LOST WORLD by Arthur Conan Doyle

Stars: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Tagline: See the mighty prehistoric monsters clash with modern lovers in a most remarkable story of love, romance and amazing adventure.

The Plot…

Explorer Maple White is missing.  His journal details an amazing lost land where dinosaurs still roam!  A newspaper sponsors a rescue party consisting of Professor Challenger (an ecentric professor), his butler Austin, Paula White (Maple’s adult daughter), Sir John Roxton, the newspaper’s reporter Edward Malone (reluctantly going to impress his fiancée), Professor Summerlee (who is skeptical that they will find living dinosaurs), and Zambo (an Indian servant).

The rescue team finds more than expected… and may themselves need rescuing!

Thoughts (beware of spoilers)… 

The Lost World is the first US (and maybe the world) feature film to feature stop motion animation photography as the primary special effect.

In April 1925, The Lost World became the first in-flight movie shown to passengers on a London to Paris flight by Imperial Airways.

Buyers beware.  The Lost World has fallen into public domain so there are many shoddy copies out there.

The Lost World (1925) rates 4 of 5 stars.