The Lost World (1925) [DVD9]
A Film By Harry O. Hoyt
Classics | 1.33:1 | Black & White | English Dolby Digital | English Intertitles
1 Full Original DVD Image (.ISO) + 200dpi Scans = 5.43GBs | 100MB RARs | SM/NL
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'snovel. 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. His expedition includes Bessie Love,the daughter of an explorer who disappeared on the previous expedition, and biggame hunter Lewis Stone. 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 extant 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
Disc Features:
Audio Commentary by Roy Pilot, Author of The Annotated Lost World
Restored and Remastered Footage
Two Alternate Orchestral Scores
More than 12 minutes of Animation Outtakes
Reproduction of the Original Souvenir Program.
Movie:
YEAR: 1925
COUNTRY: United States
DIRECTOR: Harry O. Hoyt
DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 2001
STUDIO: Eureka!
SYSTEM: Pal
SCREEN: 1.33:1
COLOUR: Black & White
AUDIO: Traditional score in Dolby 2.0 / modern score in 5.1
INTERTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 93 mins
EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO (Image)
FILE SIZE: 5.43GBs
SCANS FILE SIZE (200 DPI): 4MBs
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 5.43GBs
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