The Lost World (1925) - Stop Motion Shots

The Lost World from 1925, directed by Harry O. Hoyt and produced by First National Pictures, was the first feature-length film to use the groundbreaking stop motion special effects pioneered by Willis O'Brien. Originally envisioned as a more small-scale adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, producer Watterson Rothacker sought out O'Brien after the success of "The Ghost of Slumber Mountain" to bring the dinosaurs from Doyle's story to life. But the project soon grew and needed the backing of a major studio, and so a deal was finally made with First National Pictures. While perhaps not as polished as his later work, O'Brien used a number of groundbreaking techniques for the time to show the prehistoric creatures in the same shots as the actors of the film, something he had not yet attempted in his earlier work. In addition to O'Brien, several other (uncredited) animators helped him animate the large number of dinosaurs for the master shots of the plateau. And sculptor, filmmaker and stop motion animator John Leland Roop animated the sequence following the lone Allosaurus that first fights a Trachodon and then later a pack of Triceratops, being untimately wounded and scared off. The tremendous success of The Lost World would pave the way for O'Brien's later work on Creation, King Kong and Mighty Joe Young.

[@IncredibleFulk1]

Damn. It’s surreal to me that this film is nearly 100 years old. I remember owning this on VHS as a kid in the 90’s. I used to love all these stop motion dinosaur films.
To think in another decade, King Kong will be 100 years old.

[@np2k9atheSFfan]

That first shot reminds me from Paradise Falls from Up

[@kesterfae5447]

They were intentionally referencing the lost world

[@Reidy1902]

There Were No Dinosaurs In That Pixar Film, It Only Had A Big Bird Named Kevin.

[@chaoticiannunez2419]

Because that image came from The Lost World.

[@InvaderTool]

@@Reidy1902I’m gonna be that guy and say that birds ARE dinosaurs.

[@autumnsonsmusic]

You are doing the Lord’s work my friend! These are amazing. ❤

[@scottgamble7767]

Nice clean post Alex. A joy to watch!
👉👍👍

[@IsaacClips-mh5nc]

Do King Kong stop motion shots

[@I_live_inside_your_walls]

This new Jurassic park movie is bussin 🔥

[@Sultan1.Garfield]

Universal Studio Is Cooking 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@AlvinNguyen2008]

And it’s 10x better than dominion 💯

[@Del-Canada]

For The Lost World, Willis H. O'Brien made 49 model dinosaurs. These miniatures were donated to the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. After many years the rubber models began to sulphurize and disintegrate. They were stored away and inadvertently sealed between the walls of the facility when a new wing was added.

[@Del-Canada]

While filming one of the stop-motion scenes, the cameraman spotted a pair of pliers in the picture. So as not to draw attention to them by having them suddenly disappear, he moved them a little at a time until they were out of the shot.

[@AhmedMutiri]

Where's that in the movie?

[@BeauHoyt-n9p]

0:45-3:21 I had no idea this was in stop motion animation

[@ErasmoalfredoNegronguarda]

Estos efectos son mucho mejor que los de muchas películas de dinosaurios de bajo presupuesto de hoy

[@BeauHoyt-n9p]

Finally. Now, do "One Million Years B.C. (1966) - Stop Motion Shots"

[@茂明志釜]

コナン・ドイルの原作の失われた世界の最古の映画化ですね～😮

[@Cuchulainn1875]

7:25 huh. It's nice to see the Triceratops as a heavy weight anti predator rather than something instantly killed by whatever comes along.
Literally 1 minute latter. Oh for God's sake!

[@adnanpulic7611]

Uhhhm actually thats an agathaumas🤓👆

[@deweymartin678]

The creator should make the lost pit spider pit sequence from King Kong (1933)

[@Dapper-Lil-dude]

Unfortunately the original creator is kinda dead

[@deweymartin678]

@@Dapper-Lil-dude What?

[@Dapper-Lil-dude]

@@deweymartin678 Well you see, the original animator(s) of The Lost World (1925) are all dead (mainly Willis H. O'Brien) and the Spider pit sequence of Kong (also an O'Brien project) was never even filmed, and it's disputed whether it was even considered for the film, and the creator (O'Brien) died in 1962, so it's kinda impossible for the creator to make the Spider pit sequence. Although there is a version created by Peter Jackson, attempting to recreate what it would have been like if it were in the film.

[@deweymartin678]

⁠@@Dapper-Lil-dudeFirst. No, I mean the guy who showed us this wonderful video should recreate the Spider Pit Sequence, he only made one small part which looked so good. Second. It was filmed but the scenes where Lost and The director of King Kong (1933) said that all of the deleted scenes where destroyed in a fire at RKO. Third. I wish I had a third.

[@Dapper-Lil-dude]

@@deweymartin678 Fair enough, but attempting to create a faithful recreation would be a huge undertaking, but it should be known that Merian C. Cooper wasn't exactly a perfect account, especially due to his reputation of embellishing details and straight up lying, also It's been stated that the spider put sequence was never in the filming schedule, along with the rooftop scene (If my memory serves me correctly that's what it's called) but the story of a fire at RKO is decent evidence as that did happen. But there is no evidence it exists aside from an unreliable account