Thus, there is currently two version of the movie: However, the George Eastman House version was released as a bonus of the 1960 remake with Claude Rains. Since they refused to release the completed version to home video, the silent film publisher David Shepard utilized the same materials as George Eastman House to compile and restore his own version of the film that was released on DVD by Image Entertainment in 2001. This resulted to a new restoration in 1997 based on the original Marion Fairfax 1925 script by George Eastman House. In 1992 was discovered a nearly complete print of the full film in the Filmovy Archiv of the Czech Republic, and additional footage was uncovered in a pair of private collections and in the Library of Congress. In the 1990s, with the renewed interest about dinosaurs resulted in some spectacular new finds, and a restored version was released in 1991 by Lumivision Laserdisk, with some bonus (the movie trailer and a commercial for the Bob Sherman's' The Lost World Puzzle presented by Bessie Love herself. The short began in the drawing rooms of 1912 London with an actor portraying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1948, Encyclopedia Britannica purchased the 60-minutes movie and made further cuts resulting in another short version of 5-minutes long intended for English classrooms and retitled A Lost World, as Told by A. Thus, many sequences were removed: the introductory sequence with Gladys Hungerford (played by Alma Bennett) as the Malone's fiancée, the meeting of Challenger with the expedition team in South America, and several London scenes. The new 60-minutes version was licensed to Kodascope Libraries. When Warner Brothers purchased First National Pictures, 30 minutes of the movie were cut. The story of the movie is quite eventful: the original movie was 90 minutes long. In the original version, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was introducing the movie with a 4 verse poem. The movie is the first adaptation of the Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World. The Lost World is an American silent movie premiered on 8 february 1925 at the Astor Theatre (New York, USA) produced by First National Pictures starring Wallace Beery as Professor George Challenger. ![]()
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