The Lost World

The Lost World opened on Broadway at New York City's Astor Theater in February, 1925.

Now wait a minute. The Lost World didn't hit theaters until Memorial Day, 1997. What's going on here?

The Lost World, 1925, One-Sheet A, The Apatosaurus Those of you who are ahead of this article undoubtedly know that Michael Crichton's The Lost World owes its title to a famous novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame) which originally appeared as a serial in the Strand Magazine in London, England beginning in April 1912. It was optioned for a motion picture in 1919 and finally made it to the screen in 1925.

Responsible for the startling state-of-the-art special effects in this wonderful film was none other than Willis H. O'Brien, the genius who would later bring King Kong to life. O'Brien had produced a number of short stop-motion dinosaur films for Thomas Edison in 1917, and did the effects for 1918's The Ghost of Slumber Mountain which is arguably the first "feature-length" dinosaur movie.

The Lost World of 1925 was measured at 9209 feet -- approximately 10 reels (a reel being 1000 feet) -- of 35mm film. It would have run between 104 and 106 minutes depending upon the projection speed. A musical cue sheet indicates that it was intended to be shown at 23 frames per second which would have worked out to 106 minutes, but Variety reported that the film ran 104 minutes on opening night.

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Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, and ornate architecture - sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature - both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast which dominates the vaulted central hall.
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