Lost World, The (Full Frame)

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Newly restored with fifty percent more footage than any version in seventy years, here is the model for "King Kong," "Jurassic Park" and "Godzilla." A world wide sensation when it opened on February 15, 1925, "The Lost World" is a story of living dinosaurs from the Jurassic age written by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and starring a cast of Stegosaurus, Allosaurus, Brontosaurus, Triceratops, and Pterodactyl under the technical direction of Willis H. O'Brien (King Kong, Mighty Joe Young) and a cast of actors under the direction of Harry O. Hoyt. This DVD also features a choice of modern or traditional orchestral accompaniment, an insightful commentary track by Roy Pilot, author of "The Annotated Lost World "(Wessex Press, 1996), and a supplementary section including thirteen minutes of previously unseen animation outtakes for "The Lost World". Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery), mocked for his insistence that a "lost world" of living prehistoric creatures exists on a remote Brazilian plateau, organizes an expedition with Summerlee (Arthur Hoyt), eminent scientist; Edward E. Malone (Lloyd Hughes), journalist; Sir John Roxton (Lewis Stone), hunter and explorer; and Paula White (Bessie Love), daughter of an explore who earlier disappeared on the plateau. In the jungle the adventures are attacked by "the missing link," an ape-man, and suddenly spy a pterodactyl flying through the air. This primitive, bird like creature is thought to have been extinct for sixty-five million years. Prehistoric monsters exist after all....

Audio Commentary by Roy Pilot, Author of "The Annotated Lost World"; Animated Outtakes; Choice of Two Alternate Orchestral Scores; Reproduction of the Original Souvenir Program, Deleted Scenes, NTSC.