Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Stupendous Story
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Directed by Harry O. Hoyt
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
El mundo perdido, Vergessene Welten, Den tapte verden, Die verlorene Welt, En försvunnen värld, Le monde perdu, Затерянный мир, Il mondo perduto, O Mundo Perdido, 失落的世界, Ztracený svět, Kadonnut maailma, Zaginiony świat, 잃어버린 세계, ロスト・ワールド, El món perdut, Загублений світ
"Alright, babe, I will prove to you that I'm a tough manly man who is worthy of your love!"
*heads out to catch a dinosaur*
🦕🦕🦕🦕
The Lost World
Origin of King Kong, Godzilla, Jurassic Park / World and monster / creature movies in pioneering trick technique.
Silent movie special screening with piano accompaniment by Richard Siedhoff.
Introduction and insights by Matthias Fetzer.
The 2016 restoration is put together out of 11 different film pieces and has colorized parts.
The story is written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and follows after Sherlock Holmes, his second favorite character Professor Challenger.
This story is already very similar to King Kong and the 1933 film is like a remake in parts.
Both are made by the visionary special effects and trick technician Willis O’Brien.
These dinosaurs have even breathing bellies!
It is like in King Kong and Jurassic Park…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of feature-length dinosaur movies, the first ever of which was this quite crude and rudimentary and yet still ambitious and influential silent-era adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure novel, featuring stop-motion model setpieces by the legendary Willis H. O'Brien which were a precursor to his work on King Kong and thus just about every large-scale monster movie you've ever seen from 50s B-movies to kaiju brawlers to any movie with "Jurassic" in its title.
It's funny to have a document from the very beginning how much trouble these movies often have merging the monster mayhem with the human drama, in this case quite literally they were figuring out how to even…
¡100 AÑOS!
Somos testigos de un grupo de exploradores que visitan una isla habitada por dinosaurios, que estos cobran vida gracias a los efectos prácticos del increíble stop-motion. La comprensión de los sucesos se apoya en los intertítulos y las expresiones faciales. ¡Es impresionante!
Esa habría sido mi reacción si la hubiera visto en su momento. De todos modos, es una obra pionera en muchos elementos jurásicos y técnicas de la industria cinematográfica.
Al menos hay que verla una vez en la vida.
[2024 Ranked]
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Crazy how a silent film that’s 100 years old is better than the most recent dino film
1st Harry O. Hoyt
The two stars are for the Brontosaurus in London sequence and Beery's exceptional fake moustache. The rest is what you'd expect from a few days shy of a century old film; hokey, sentimental and smeared with a thick layer of blackface. O'Brien's stop-motion gradually improves as the film goes on, at some points looking VERY ropey, but it's absolutely the draw for what is otherwise a very creaky piece of Colonial entertainment. The Flicker Alley restoration looks brilliant, though. Beautiful tinting.
It was overdue for me to return to the era of reviewing feature length films from both the Golden Age of Hollywood and the silent era, which I haven’t done in the past several months. This was a DVR recording made from a recent Turner Classic Movies airing. I hadn’t seen this before & a 100th anniversary is a good reason for a review. Of course I haven’t read the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel before but to clarify, this is the full film and not the truncated version that was the only one available before various elements were combined together to finally present a complete print after all those decades. Flicker Alley and Lobster Films were behind that restoration.
The…
Yeah, this really is a museum piece. Basically a dry run for the Willis O'Brien stop-motion wizardry that made King Kong such a timeless classic. However, this is nowhere near as entertaining or impactful, though there are still some fantastic moments. And, if you're one of the people who took issue with the dated handling of non-white races in Kong, you really might want to steer clear of this one (oof).
Still, this is really worth checking out as a predecessor to Kong as well as for the awesome dinosaur-rampaging-through-a-city sequence that feels like a prototype for The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, especially if you're a stop-motion nut like me.
"-------------" - Silent film.
Those dinosaurs need feathers... SCIENCE!!!!!
The version that I watched had no music.... NO MUSIC! You don't realize how important music is to a production until you go through a movie with no music or sound of any kind... it's unnerving. On top of that this movie is fairly boring. It has great historical value and the influence on King Kong is clear but I just couldn't keep myself occupied with the story.
Nah.
The first feature-length film featuring dinosaurs. It is, of course, as is evident from the early date of the year of its release, a silent film. Yet I'd put this one up there with other top silent features like Metropolis, Nesferatu and Maniac. The stop-motion dinosaurs are as convincing as any other silent-film fantasies. The characters of the story are colorful even through a lack of audible dialogue. Old Challenger reminded me of John C. Reilly playing Dr. Steve Brule. The 1912 novel from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle surely inspired everything from other Lost World adaptations to King Kong's story and films to Jurassic Park, and with this being the first adaptation it very well might be worth seeking out…
Glorious and majestic, and somehow, it is tender. This grabs your attention in a great way, with all of those lovely puppets. You can clearly see the influence this caused over Hollywood. Without this, there wouldn't have been a King Kong, or at least, King Kong wouldn't have been the same. Worth a look because of what it is: perhaps the very first feature film of camp pleasures!! God bless silent stop motion!
90/100