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Auction History Result 9h621 LOST WORLD 8x10 still 1925 wonderful fx image of dinosaurs fighting in stop motion! Date Sold 9/16/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (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 stop-motion, the process invented by Willis O'Brien, worked really incredibly on the screen, both in this movie and in the later King Kong in 1933, but when you see a still image of the dinosaurs, you can clearly tell that they are clay models, and they look much more like children's toys than they do menacing dinosaurs! This is a really rare and wonderful special effects still from this classic early fantasy movie. Condition: very good to fine. The still is in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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