The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy giant monster adventure film directed by Harry O Hoyt and written by Marion Fairfax adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel of th esame name.
Produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a major Hollywood studio at the time, the film stars Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger and features pioneering stop motion special effects by Willis O’Brien, a forerunner of his work on King Kong (1933). Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the film, absent from some extant prints.
In 1998, The Lost World was deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
Synopsis – From a lost expedition to a plateau in the borders of Peru, Brazil and Columbia Paula White brings the journal of her father, explorer Maple White, to the eccentric Professor Challenger in London. The journal features sketches of dinosaurs which is enough proof for Challenger to publicly announce that dinosaurs still walk the earth. Met with ridicule at an academic meeting at the Zoological Hall, Challenger reluctantly accepts a newspaper’s offer to finance a mission to rescue Maple White. Professor Challenger, Paula White, sportsman Sir John Roxton, news reporter Edward Malone (who is a friend of Roxton and wishes to go on the expedition to impress his fiancée), a skeptical professor Summerlee, an Indian servant Zambo, and Challenger’s butler Austin leave for the plateau.
Doors & bar open at 11am. Drinks, snacks, coffee & tea available. Tickets $15 for adults and free for kids 13 and under.
Film duration 106 minutes.