The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The film that started the dinosaur movie trend, The Lost World did it better than any other arguably up until Jurassic Park. It pioneered the art of stop motion to the point that viewers couldn't understand how the models were used. When a screen test was shown at an exclusive club, The New York Times reported that the creatures shown must either be real footage or works of masterpiece.
Why this is free to watch
The Lost World (1925) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Harry O. Hoyt
- Starring
- Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, Arthur Hoyt, Margaret McWade, Bull Montana
Player shortcuts
- Space Play / pause
- ← → Skip 10s
- ↑ ↓ Volume
- M Mute
- F Fullscreen
- 0–9 Jump to %
