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The Lost World - 1925
Page 1 - Contents   Gallery of Art and Stills   Resources

Contents - Posters - Advertising Art - Scene Stills - Behind the Scenes
 
Credits Table of Contents - Artwork
The Lost World, Premiere Programme, New York City 1925
The cover of the Prgramme from the premiere of The Lost World, 1925 at the Astor Theatre, New York City, New York, United States.
 
Dinosaurs
  1. Allosaurus
  2. Apatosaurus
  3. Brachiosaurus
  4. Brontosaurus (Apatosaurus)
  5. Hadrosaurs
  6. Pteranodon
  7. Triceratops
Cast
Bessie Love .... Paula White
Lewis Stone  ....  Sir John Roxton Wallace Beery .... Professor Challenger 
Virginia Browne Faire ... ???
Lloyd Hughes .... Edward Malone
Alma Bennett .... Gladys Hungerford 
Arthur Hoyt .... Professor Summerlee 
Margaret McWade  ....  Mrs. Challenger 
Bull Montana  .... Ape-man 
Jocko ... Himself
Frank Finch Smiles .... Austin (Challenger's butler) 
Jules Cowles  .... Zambo 
George Bunny ....  Colin McArdle
Charles Wellesley  ... Major Hibbard 
rest of cast listed alphabetically 
Arthur Conan Doyle  .... Himself (uncredited) 
Nelson McDowell  .... Newspaper man (uncredited) 
Gilbert Roland  ....  Extra (uncredited) 
Leo White  .... Percy (uncredited) 
Filmmakers
Director -- Harry Hoyt

Produced under the sueprvision of Earl Hudson

Stop Motion Animation Special Effects, Research and Technical 
Direction  -- Willis O'Brien

Writing credits
adapted by Marion Fairfax from the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle 

Cinematography byArthur Edeson
J. Devereaux Jennings
Homer Scott

Film Editing by George McGuire

Makeup Department 
Cecil Holland  ....  makeup artist 

Assistant Director, director of settings and architecture ... Milton Menasco 

Art Department
Marcel Delgado ....  model construction
Ralph Hammeras ... Special Effects

Other crew
Chief technician ... Fred W. Jackman

Watterson R. Rothacker ....   by arrangement with Watterson R. Rothacker

Production Companies
First National Pictures Inc./ Watterson R. Rothacker

Distributors
First National Pictures Inc. [US Theatrical]
Kodascope Pictures (US Non-Theatrical)
IMAGE Entertainment (DVD)
Lumivision (laser disc)
Film Classics Video (video) 
Nostalgia Video (video) 
Video Yesteryear [us] (video) 

Runtimes
USA Theatrical reported variously at 101-106 Minutes
[The variations may have to do with projection speed -- anywhere from 18-21 frames per second -- and the length of the actual intertitles)
USA:
100 minutes (restored version)
101 (restored version) 
Kodascope and most Video versions of the Kodascope prints USA: 63 minutes
Black and White with Tints.
(most video versions do not have the tinting)
Sound: Silent film with Composed Score (restored on Shepard/IMAGE DVD)

Known scores have been composed or improvised by:

Alloy Orchestra - (short version) 1990's
Philip Carli - (GEH Restoration) 1997, piano
??? James - 2000, organ
Robert Israel Orchestra, (GEH Restoration) - Sept 15, 2000
Alloy Orchestra (Shepard Restoration) - 2000
 

Gallery of Original Art, Posters, Movie Stills

Totally awesome images from the granddaddy of all dino movies! 

Advertising and Magazine Art

Behind the Scenes Stills - The Dinosaurs, The Animators

Posters - this page

Scene Stills - The Story of The Movie


Posters

The Lost World, 1925, One-Sheet A, The Apatosaurus
One of the original one-sheet posters
for The Lost World, 1925


This alternate one-sheet from 1925 shows Wallace Beery as Challenger.

The Lost World 1-sheet
Another image of the main 1925 one-sheet with some advertising copy added.







 



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