The Lost World (1925 film)
- Bessie Love: Paula White
- Lewis Stone: Sir John Roxton
- Wallace Beery: Professor Challenger
- Lloyd Hughes: Ed Malone
- Alma Bennett: Gladys Hungerford
- Arthur Hoyt: Professor Summerlee
The Lost World is an adventure film from 1925 which, under the direction of Harry O. Hoyt ( dramaturgical director) and Willis O'Brien ( director of animated sequences ) was born. It is based on the science fiction adventure novel The Lost World of Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle.
Action
Ed Malone, editor of the London Record Journal wants his flock to impress Gladys, who wants to have only an adventurer to the man. So it suits him, he is sent to a lecture by Professor Challenger, who wants to prove the existence of living dinosaurs. Are present for the lecture also big-game hunter Sir John Roxton, the entomologist Summerlee and Paula White. Their father, the researcher Maple White is, in the Amazon region, the presumed home of the dinosaurs missed.
On the question plateau in the Amazon region, the expedition encounters prehistoric animals like pterodactyl, brontosaurus and Allosaurier. After a volcanic eruption decide Roxton and Challenger to take the brontosaurus to London. However, where the Dinosaur erupts and devastates London. As the prehistoric animal enters the Tower Bridge, these breaks, and the brontosaurus leaves over the Thames the city.
Ed Malone and Paula White are a pair, Gladys married in the meantime an accountant.
Background
After the premiere, the 104 minutes original term was cut to 55 minutes and the original master destroyed, because you did not want that the silent version would overshadow a possible remake in the form of a sound film. The original version of the film could largely be restored than in 1992 in a film archive in Prague an almost complete copy of the film was discovered and in the subsequent search turned up a further 6.5 minutes of footage.
The film is impressive mainly because of its special effects. These come from a pioneer of animation techniques, Willis O'Brien, who eight years before his work for the classic King Kong (1933 ) in The Lost World techniques like stop-motion ( of models, giving the impression of breathing dinosaurs awakened ) and Travelling mat (see Front-Light/Back-Light-Verfahren ) began.
Sound film version
From the silent film a German sound film version was derived by the German film was synchronized and the intertitles that describe dialogues in the original, have been removed. This version is viragiert, so it also contains the then customary in silent movies color tints.