LOST NO MORE! The Restorations of Willis O'Brien's THE LOST WORLD By Stephen R. Bissette It is somehow appropri­ l i ate that what will most likely IH j remain the definitive resto­ ration of Harry O. Hoyt’s 1925 silent film THE LOST WORLD should arrive in 2001, rekindling primordial passions at the turn of the new Millennium, the very year Arthur C. Clarke and the late Stanley Kubrick invested
with such great expectations. Appropriate, too, that the resurrected
LOST WORLD arrives on the eve of this summer’s blockbuster JURASSIC PARK III, which promises the latest, greatest CGI dinosaurs contemporary Hollywood money can buy; we’ll see how they stack up next to their silent era kith and kin. In their day, special effects pioneer Willis O’Brien’s stop-motion dinosaurs were considered cutting-edge, uncannily alive special effects creations, earning a deserved reputation that lasted well into the 1960s. No doubt, our own generation’s first glimpse of the lifelike CGI dinosaurs for Steven Spielberg’s JURASSIC PARK (1993) is the closest we will ever come to knowing the incredulous awe and wonder that the audience at New York City’s Astor Theater experienced on February 15, 1925, when the dinosaurs of THE LOST
WORLD first ambled onscreen. Thanks to the efforts of David Shepard and
Serge Bromberg—building upon previous restorations helmed by (and/or indebted to) Séott MacQueen, Jan-Christopher Horak, Ed Stratmann, The International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, and others—videophiles and DVD connoisseurs finally have access to a revelatory video
The Restorations
THE LOST WORLD
1925/1990, Good times Home Video, ' 4
S9.99, VHS, 51m 21s THE LOST WORLD
1925/1991, Lumivision, DU, OOP, LD; 1925/1993, Milestone Film & Video, HFU,
OOP, VHS; 1925/1997, Lumivision, DD-2.0/ S/MA/+, $24.95, DVB*A, 64m 25s
THE LOST WORLD
1925/2001, Image Entertainment #ID0320DS, HF/S/+, $19.98, VHS; 1925/2001, Image
Entertainment #ID0319DSDVD, DÜ-5.1 and 2.0JMA/+, $24.99, DVD-1, 92m 40s
THE ANNOTATED LOST WORLD By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edited by Roy
Pilot and-A Ivin Rodin Wessex Press, 1996, 264 pp., $34.95 (hardcover)
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