Lack of good storyline.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I knew that movie is great and this helped Willis O'Brien be hired to work on the original KING KONG. This is the first adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. What caused me to watch this movie was that there was this episode of MUPPET BABIES called "Out of this World History." In that episode, there were clips from the 1925 version THE LOST WORLD. I was seven years old. This was out of the ordinary. I couldn't identify the movie until I was nine or then years old when I read the book "When Dinosaur s Ruled the Screen" by Mark Shapiro. This was the book that inspired be to track down monster movies. What makes this extraordinary was because nobody in 1925 never seen a dinosaur before. Even for people who saw scenes from this movie for the first time in the years that followed the release of the 1925 classic never seen anything like it. The dinosaurs were made by Willis O'Brien and Marcel Delgado and animated by Obie and Joseph L. Roop (who would later do the parody, THE LOST WHIRL from 1926). Clips of this show were featured in other TV shows and commercials in the 80's and 90's because it is in the public domain. However, as of 2017, a new version of the film came out with a longer length and never before seen footage. There is no word weather the new version is copyrighted or not. Give it a watch and spread the word. If you think black and white (silent) movies are boring, guess again. Not rated, but a PG would work despite the violence and blood courtesy of the stop-motion dinosaurs. The brontosaurus attacking London might scare the kiddies.

Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White's daughter, Paula. Malone's paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Joined by renowned hunter John Roxton, and others, the group goes to South America, where they do indeed find a plateau inhabited by pre-historic creatures, one of which they even manage to bring back to London with them.I like that they go to SA instead of Africa.The story is boring.and there's actually a guy in a bad monkey suit, but the movie is all about the stop motion dinosaurs. Still cool to watch them nearly 100 years later! And bronty in central London is spectacular! Also notable for one of only 5 films Arthur Conan Doyle appears in.

Last weekend I attended a screening of Harry Hoyt's THE LOST WORLD that offered the one- hour version. The quality of the image was great and the score was performed live. And I only had the obvious reference of it: Willis H. O'Brien, who was responsible for the special effects in KING KONG (the original 1933 version certainly), worked here, doing the stop-motion material as well. I'm pretty sure I'll write *King Kong* a whole lot more in this commentary since this is similar to "Kong" in many ways. I was actually very surprised because of that fact; I, certainly, expected similarity to "Kong" but really nothing more than something technical oriented. Actually, I would say THE LOST WORLD is pretty much KING KONG. It doesn't have, however, a very iconic character (nor a sad ending); after all, it isn't titled after the name of a specific creature (here we have dinosaurs of all kinds). But don't let this confuse you dear reader since "Lost World" does features iconic scenes. In other words, the dinosaur here (the one that suffers a similar denouement to the one Kong had) doesn't climbs a famous London building, equivalent to New York's Empire State (yes, this film, or better said, the last part of it is set in London, England), but we do enjoy a really wonderful scene featuring the dinosaur at a London landmark. Needless to say, this was made eight years before "Kong". THE LOST WORLD is one of those films that are worth watching not just because they were influential. I mean, this is so much FUN! Unlike many films of this kind, it never hesitates when it comes to show you its main attraction (the dinosaurs of course) – we get to watch lots of fights between them (great and fun material) and some heart as well (there's a crazy ape- man too). I'm willing to seek the DVD of it and hopefully I get to watch the full (or just longer) version. Meanwhile, this one-hour piece was a blast and a perfect Saturday night movie! Watch it, even if it's the online version that IMDb is offering now for free. *Watched it on 25 August, 2012

The film deals about Professor paleontologist Challenger(Wallace Beery), an eccentric scientist. The London Record Journal publicizes : ¨Famous zoologist returns from South America without proofs of strange tale , Challenger a well-known author and scientist, has returned to London with a strange tale of Mammoth, Pteradoctyls and other prehistoric monsters, roaming at large somewhere on the upper reaches of the Amazon. Unfortunately for the Professor's reputation for veracity, he refuses to give the exact location of his alleged discoveries and still more unfortunately, the photographs in his possession are so badly damaged when the Professor's canoe is said to have been evidenced ¨. Challenger leads a British expedition to the Amazon in 1912, a motley group formed by the journalist Ed Malone (Lloyd Hughes), Paula White (Bessie Love), adventurer Roxton (Lewis Stone) . The mixed characters in search for a fantastic and remote plateau where the prehistoric beasts still exist confronting adventures and other risks .In the Amazons , the journalist writes the following : ¨I will not bore those whom this narrative may reach by account of our voyage. Eventually we found ourselves in that no-man's-land which is formed by the half-defined frontiers between Peru, Brazil and Colombia, The sealed map promised Challenger to not open until we arrived here is only a blank page. Excepting a miracle, our expedition seems to have come to a premature end ¨. Later on, Ed Malone writes to Mr. McArdle : ¨It is just three weeks since we sent back the canoes and tonight we are camping at the base of the great plateau upon which Maple White was marooned . Challenger has guided us to this spot, and proved that the plateau is a fact, but we have no reason to believe that any monsters are roaming about up there. In Fact, I don't think ¨ . After that, the expedition find themselves confronted by dinosaurs, Brontosaurs, Alosaurs, among them. Then 'The Record-Journal' publishes : ¨Explorers reach the last outpost of civilization searching for Lost World may not be heard from again for months¨.This classic, first and silent version is a stupendous story of adventure and romance. The tale provides sweeping and exciting entertainment . The action scenes blend creatures and humans more seamlessly than ever before in silent cinema and has some nice battles between prehistoric animals. Surviving Brontosaurs,Triceratops, Dinosaurs,Alosaurs, Pterodactyls are the true stars , rise to the occasion to amuse in an otherwise dated and old movie. The fantastic beasts are stunningly made by Willis H O'Brien -the master of Ray Harryhausen- as researcher and technical director and sets and architecture by Milton. Furthermore, photographs by Arthur Edeson, being well directed by Harry Hoyt.Other adaptation about this story based upon novel by Arthur Conan Doyle are the following : 1960 by Irwin Allen with Claude Rains,Michael Rennie and Jill St. John, 1992 by Timothy Bond with John Rhys Davies and David Warner, 1997 by Steven Spielberg with Richard Attemborough, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, 2002 by Stuart Orme with Bob Hoskins, Peter Falk and James Fox.