Sunday, October 12, 1997

The Lost World

013250 / G / US / 1925 / Hoyt, Harry O. / / fantasy

Lost World, The / Kadonnut maailma. PC: First National. D: Harry O. Hoyt. Based on the story by Arthur Conan Doyle. AN: Willis O’Brien. CAST: Bessie Love, Wallace Beery, Bull Montana. 2075 m /19 fps/ 95’. Silent. Tinted. GEH work print, ”still wet”, presented by Paolo Cherchi Usai. Piano by Philip C. Carli. Pordenone, Cinema Verdi, Sunday, 12 October 1997. ** I was familiar with the one-hour version of this one. Now half an hour longer than the versions available during the last decades, the film is still mainly of academic and specialist interest. An important step in the animation of prehistoric monsters. But King Kong was the first great one in this tradition.

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