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Auction History Result 7j1274 LOST WORLD 14 8x10 REPRO photos 1970s Willis O'Brien, Arthur Conan Doyle, dinosaur FX scenes! Date Sold 10/22/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Group of 14 REPRODUCTION Photos (measure 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm]) (Learn More) The Lost World, the classic 1925 Harry O. Hoyt silent fantasy dinosaur adventure thriller ("The World's Wonder Film"; "The greatest drama of adventure and romance your eyes ever have beheld."; "See gigantic pre-historic monsters clash with modern lovers in The Lost World"; "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous story"; "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous story"; with great special effects by Willis H. O'Brien who is billed as "Research and Technical Director") starring Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery (as Professor George Edward Challenger, the protagonist from a series of Doyle stories), Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, and Bull Montana (as the Ape-man). Note that when the producer/director team of Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper (who had made several acclaimed documentaries in remote areas of the world) were looking to make a fantasy movie set on a mythical island with a giant gorilla, they remembered the special effects from "The Lost World", and hired Willis O'Brien to do the special effects for their new movie, "King Kong"! "The Lost World" was O'Brien's first feature film, and he used the exact same stop-motion techniques of special effects that made "King Kong" so memorable. Note that the one-sheet poster for "The Lost World" shows an image of Wallace Beery pointing at a map of Africa, and there are NO special effects pictured on the poster. But the window card has a wonderful image of a dinosaur trampling on the residents of a city, and is THE poster to own from this movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this group of REPRODUCTION photos from classic horror movies is one of 20 similar groups we are currently auctioning, in 20 separate auctions. They were collected by one of the first great horror collectors, John Parnum, who started collecting in the 1960s, and continued until his passing in the 2000s. THESE repro photos were mostly purchased by him in the early 1970s, early in his collecting days, when he was willing to get repros of rare photos where he thought he would likely never find originals. On the best titles, he tried to get a repro of EVERY still that was made! While these are NOT original photos, they WERE mostly created around 50 years ago, and surely it would take a lot of time and effort to track down repros of all of these images, but the winning bidder of this auction will get them all at once! Finally, note that we are not infallible, and there is a slight chance that a few of these may be unmarked reissues, and we suppose a few could be original. Certainly, many are of high quality, and some are likely re-strikes from original negatives. Please look at our images to see what REPRODUCTION photos are in this group! Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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