are casually scraped onto the dirt as the Allosaums goes through its death throes. This shocking, gory detail, anticipating
O’Brien’s similarly naturalistic grue for KING KONG, isn’t lingered over, but it is clearly vis­ ible. In his a n n o ta tio n s for LCJMI, S co tt MacQueen mentions that the Kodascope ver­ sion of GT lacked “some of the more graphic shots of the beasts... removed to meet the sensibilities of the Kodascope Library’s ma­
jo r customers: schools and church groups.” Maybe so, but this shot was in every version I’d ever seen before, including 200’ (12-15m) 8mm prints sold in the ’50s and ’60s and the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA version (sans the human characters) entitled A LOST WORLD. The entirety of this confrontation was trimmed from GEH, thus bridging prior action involv­ ing the Allosaurus (after it attacks Chal­ lenger’s camp and moves on) with the first shot of the show-down between the Aga- thaumas and the Tyrannosaurus rex, sug­ gesting the two different carnivores were one and the same creature... despite the fact that the Allosaurus’ remains are still visible be­ hind the duelling dinosaurs! The confusion of the two carnivores into a single creature— despite the longevity of the complete se­ quence over the decades, and the evident differences in size, scale texture, and mus­ culature of Delgado’s models—is the only possible explanation for this baffling faux pas. Whatever the virtues of GEH, the exclu­
sion of this important bit of dinosaur footage presently mars that extensive 35mm restora­ tion of THE LOST WORLD Lively new footage is featured from 49:10-
51:23, in which Malone climbs the Ginko tree to scout a new, safer camp lo cation. As Malone spots the cliffside cavern to which the group will soon move, he is stalked by the Apeman, who gets dangerously close to Malone until Roxton shoots the creature down. In LÜMI, this sequence runs sans Malone’s climb and sighting of the caverns; the Apeman is simply spotted and shot down out of the tree, presented as a threat from above to the entire camp. IMG is missing one memorable shot of the Apeman slavering from his perch in the tree (see LUMI, 34:48-50), and replaces LCiMI’s closeup of the wounded, s till-d ro o l­ ing beastman on the ground (see LCJMI, 34:54-56) with a genuinely bracing shot of the startled creature after his fall to the ground, bloody shot-wound visible, eyes and
mouth wide in rage, pain, and fear (IMG, 51:26-28). It also adds a shot of Malone dropping from the tree to safety. An example of
IMG’s “clean-up” of the original dialogue
is apparent in the next scene set at base camp. In GT and LCIMI, Zambo says, “Jocko goin’ be mighty lonesome down here wifout Miss Paula— he climb dat big rock dis mo’nin’ to git to her—he cain’t bear dat girl outen his sight!” which IMG replaces with a proper English replacement title (“Jocko will be mighty lonesome down here without Miss Paula...”). As noted in Tom Weaver’s interview with restorationist David Shepard elsewhere in this is­ sue, this and other editorial decisions were made to soften the blackface caricature of Zambo for contemporary audiences. Note also that Austin’s Cockney accent is also corrected: In all prior ver­ sions, Austin replies “ I ‘ave a hidea! After supper bring all those ‘ammocks into the tent!” IMG simi­ larly homogenizes this into proper English spell­ ing. Thus, both “ lower class” stereotypes have been laundered for contemporary viewers. New footage is added in which Malone explains
the need to move the campsite to the relative safety of the caverns.
C %J e g ment F o u r begins with the shot of dawn
on the plateau, and closes with the glimpse of the fallen Brontosaurus mired in the swamp, just prior to first shot of the active volcano, essentially covering the expedition’s second day in the Lost World. This sequence runs 7m 39s in GT, 9m 32s in ÜMI, and 12m 51s in IMG. The primary revisions and additions in IMG
include: Much of Chapter 11 is new. Early passages
incorporating new footage (54:08-23) include establishing shots of the cavern exterior, and brief animation footage of dinosaurs, including an insert shot of a group of feeding Bronto­ saurs (54:40-50) and a rather anachronistic shot of the same Trach- odon killed earlier by the Allosaurus (55:00-04). I recall this shot bothering me during the screen­ ing of GEH, but its presence here clearly
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