The Lost World (1925)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The lost world |
| Original title | The Lost World |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harry O. Hoyt |
| script | Marion Fairfax |
| production |
Earl Hudson , Jamie White |
| camera | Arthur Edeson |
| cut | George McGuire |
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The Lost World is a 1925 adventure film directed by Harry O. Hoyt . Willis O'Brien was responsible for the groundbreaking trick sequences at the time . The film is based on the science fiction adventure novel The Forgotten World by Sherlock Holmes inventor Arthur Conan Doyle , who can also be seen in the opening scene of the film with an opening speech.
action
Ed Malone, editor for the London Record Journal , wants to impress his crush Gladys, who only want an adventurer as a husband. So it suits him that he is sent to a lecture by Professor Challenger, who wants to prove the existence of living dinosaurs in the jungle of the Amazon . Challenger calls together a team at the lecture to find the missing evidence and the missing researcher Maple White - but the scientific world believes Challenger's dinosaur claim is fraudulent. Together with White's daughter Paula, the big game hunter Sir John Roxton, the entomologist Summerlee and the servants Austin and Zambo, Malone wants to accompany the expedition. Since Challenger doesn't have a very good opinion of journalists, the two get into an argument. In the end, however, Challenger agrees to accompany Malone, as his newspaper finances the expedition in return for the exclusive rights .
According to Maple White, the dinosaurs are said to live on an inaccessible plateau in the Amazon region. The troops gain access to the plateau in question by cutting down a tree and using it as a bridge. Austin and Zambo stay at camp with Paula's monkey Jocko. No sooner have the expedition reached the plateau than they encounter prehistoric animals such as pterodactyl , brontosaur and allosaur . She is being watched by an ape man. When the brontosaur throws the tree trunk used as a bridge into the gorge, the way back is cut off. Malone climbs a tree to look for a safe place to camp, where he is attacked by the mysterious ape-man. However, the ape-man can be driven away by a targeted shot. A little later the troops have to seek shelter from a volcanic eruption in a cave.
While looking for a way off the plateau, Roxton finds the remains of White. When he tries to convey the sad news to Paula, he sees that Paula and Malone have fallen in love because of the hopeless situation. Actually, Roxton had also hoped for a marriage with Paula, which is why he feels lovesick, but does not show anything as a fair sportsman. In the meantime, the two companions Austin and Zambo who stayed at the camp came up with a saving idea. They make a rope ladder out of the existing hammocks, which Jacko is supposed to transport up the rock face. When they get in contact with the group through an opening in the cave, the plan seems to succeed, the monkey climbs the steep wall with the rope ladder, one after the other the expedition members leave their exile. Malone is the last to climb down and is attacked again by the ape-man who tries to pull the rope with the reporter back up. With a targeted shot of Roxton, the ape-man is finally killed and Malone gets safely down.
At the foot of the plateau, the researchers are now finding the long-awaited evidence of the living dinosaurs. A brontosaur that fell from a plateau in a fight with an Allosaurus survived because it fell into fall-absorbing quicksand. Help is coming in the form of the South American surveying authority, which is also helping to pull the animal out of the quicksand and ship it to London. Paula leaves Malone because they are back in civilization and he had promised Gladys his marriage.
In London, Challenger wants to present the dinosaur to the professional world, but it breaks out while being unloaded from the ship and devastates London. The police can't do anything against the monster. When the prehistoric animal finally enters Tower Bridge, it collapses and the brontosaur leaves the city via the Thames. Since Gladys has married the accountant Percy Potts in the meantime, Ed Malone and Paula White become a couple after all.
backgrounds
After the premiere, the 104 minutes of the original running time were cut to 55 minutes and the original master was destroyed because they did not want the silent film version to overshadow a possible remake in the form of a sound film . The original version of the film was largely restored when an almost complete copy of the film was discovered in a film archive in Prague in 1992 and a further six and a half minutes of film material turned up in the subsequent search. The fully restored version was released in 1997 and released on DVD in 2001.
The film is especially worth seeing because of its special effects . These come from a pioneer of animation technology, Willis O'Brien , who eight years before his work for the classic King Kong and the white woman ( 1933 ) in The Lost World techniques like stop motion (of models that give the impression of breathing dinosaurs awakened) and traveling mats (see front-light / back-light method ).
The role of the black zambo is played by the white actor Jules Cowles (1877–1943). See blackfacing .
The film premiered on February 2, 1925 in the USA, and was first shown in Germany in January 1926.
Sound film version
A German sound film version was derived from the silent film by dubbing the film in German and removing the subtitles that describe dialogues in the original. This version is viraged, so it also contains the shades that were common in silent films at the time.
Awards
The National Film Registry took The Lost World 1998 in its list of US movies, which are regarded as particularly worthy of preservation. The Visual Effects Society compiled a list of the films believed to be the most influential in terms of the use of special effects. The lost world was in the top 50 here.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Lost World . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2004 (PDF; test number: 97 319 DVD).
- ↑ https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Lost_World_(movie_1925)
- ↑ Jules Cowles at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ World premieres according to IMDb
- ^ "The lost world" on DVD "URZEIT collection" (c) 2006, Best Entertainment