The Lost World
(1925) American
B&W : Ten reels / 9209 feet
Directed by Harry O. Hoyt

Cast: Bessie Love [Paula White], Lloyd Hughes [Edward J. Malone], Wallace Beery [Professor Challenger], Lewis Stone [Sir John Roxton], Arthur Hoyt [Professor Summerlee], Alma Bennett [Gladys Hungerford], Bull Montana [the missing link], George Bunny [Colin McArdle], Charles Wellsley [Major Hibbard], Margaret McWade [Mrs. Challenger], Frank Finch Smiles [Austin, Challenger’s butler], Jules Cowles [Zambo, Roxton’s servant], Jocko the monkey [Jocko]; Virginia Browne Faire [Marquette, a half-caste girl], Leo White [Percy Potts], Nelson McDowell [attorney]

First National Pictures, Incorporated-Watterson R. Rothacker production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Produced by Watterson R. Rothacker and Earl Hudson. Scenario by Marion Fairfax, from the novel The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Models by Marcel Delgado. Stop-motion animation by Willis H. O’Brien. Set design by Milton Menasco. Assistant director William Dowling. Cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Edited by George McGuire. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Portions of the film appear to have survived only in 16mm reduction prints; a restoration of the film was completed by George Eastman House in 1997.

Drama: Fantasy-Adventure.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [35mm nitrate positive], in the Em Gee Film Library film collection [16mm reduction positive], and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives, abridged 8mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Animals: Apes - Animation [clay] - Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle - Bridges - Dinosaurs - Jungles - Rivers - Rope ladders - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 8 March 2007.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Aylesworth-Monsters pp. 120-121, 146; Bardèche-History p. 383; Everson-American p. 220; FilmDaily-1926 p. 31; Lahue-Collecting pp. 27, 50, 51, 150; Lee-Not pp. 97-98; Limbacher-Feature p. 145; Manchel-Terrors pp. 50-51, 74; Marrero-Vintage pp. 4, 6, 16, 18-19, 158; Pohle-Holmes p. 21; Shipman-Cinema p. 86; Webb-Hollywood p. 165 : ClasIm-220 pp. 4, C20-C21; ClasIm-240 pp. C12-C13, 34 : Website-GEH.

Home Video: DVD.