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THE LOST WORLD (1925)

Verenigde Staten
Avontuur / Fantasy
93 minuten

geregisseerd door Harry O. Hoyt
met Bessie Love, Lewis Stone en Wallace Beery

De onderzoeker professor Challenger beweert dat er in de buurt van het Amazone-gebied dinosaurussen leven. Niemand gelooft hem, behalve journalist Edward Malone die samen met een jager en wat anderen richting het gebied trekt.

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Studio: Eureka Entertainment

DVD Release Date: January 4, 2007


Director: Harry O. Hoyt


Description
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The granddaddy of giant monster movies, The Lost World was one of the most expensive movies ever made in 1925, costing more than a million dollars, and has remained one of the most influential. Every larger-than-life creature feature since--from King Kong to Godzilla and Jurassic Park--owes a debt to this original adventure fantasy based on Arthur Conan Doyle's novel.

It's the story of a maverick scientist (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard) who finds a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles and comes back to London with a captured brontosaurus to prove it. The ostensible stars of the picture are all upstaged by Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs, simple models brought to life with primitive stop-motion animation (the technique was soon to be perfected by O'Brien for King Kong). Hardly realistic by any measure, these pioneering special effects arestill a sight to behold, especially the lumbering brontosaurus which receives the most care from O'Brien, both foraging in his jungle and rampaging through thestreets of London.

With the coming of talkies, The Lost World became obsolete: all known American prints were destroyed in favour of a sound remake (which became King Kong) and the film only survived in a severely truncated form (even the original negative was lost). For this release David Shepard meticulously "rebuilt" the film using material from eight different surviving prints from all over the world, cleaning and restoring along the way. The result is 50% longer than previously existant prints, still not complete but closer than any version since its 1925 debut. The difference is not merely in restored scenes but in a rediscovered sense of grace in scenes filled out to their original detailand pace. The film moves and breathes once again like a silent film. 


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 5.43 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 93 minutes

Type: Black and White (tinted)

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): silent (2 alternate orchestral scores + commentary)

Subtitles: English intertitles



BONUS FEATURES:

# Magnificent restoration of the 1925 film.
# Audio commentary by Roy Pilot, Author of The Annotated Lost World.
# Restored and Remastered Footage.
# Two Alternate Orchestral Scores.
# More than 12 minutes of Animated Outtakes.
# Reproduction of the Original Souvenir Program.

Thx to Jimb