FEATURES THE FAMILY
PREHISTORIC MONSTERS.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, 16th. MAY, 1925.
Brought Back by the Cinema.
BESSIE LOVE AND LEWIS STONE IN THE SCREEN VER- SION OF "THE LOST WORLD" BY CONAN DOYLE. HOW TIE FILM REVIVES THE PRE- HISTORIC MONSTERS IS. ALSO SHOWN IN THE TWO PIC- TURES OF BATTLES BE- TWEEN THESE GIANTS OF ...THE PAST.
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There are some weird features about "The Lost World," a First National film based on Conan Doyle's fantastic story and directed by Harry Hoyt under:
Hudson, supervision of Earl reaches the sorban after" many months of patient labour and involved movie moohanics, and years of research and prepara- tion.
Its -strongost feature io: novelty; weird phautaay beyond anything hitherto attempted in pictures; trail blazing, produo- tion.
The story is based upon an ex- pedition which penetratos romote, fastnesses of South Amorios to investigate a scientist's claim that prehistoric creatures thora survive. The party finde what it is foarfully seoking on an isolated plateau. Cut off from egress, the intruders encounter bizarre remnants of an seria elder -world-veritable mountains of flesh-against which their elephant rifles are like pop-guas, Thrill and suspense succeed one' another in bewildering fashion.
CMT, LOGAN,
CANADIAN ROCKIES
CANADIAN ALPINE CLUB. Proposed Scaling of Mount Logan.
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CAPT AH.MCCARTHY
AND RUDOLF ACMMER,
SWISS GUIDE NEAR, BANFF.
ALPINE CLUB OF CANADA, BANFF
Various desires motivate the hunt." The professor (Wallase Beory) wants to confound the sooffers. A big game hunter (Lewis Stone) soaks a.. new sensation. A youth (Lloyd Hughes) wants to perform beroic deeds to impress his lady love (Alma Bennett). A gîrl (Bessie Lava) hopes to find and resoue her father, first interloper of "The Lost World," whose amazing report has excited London's scientific realm. All
The Alpine Club of Canada will bis, is the leader of the expedition, sury to use dog slede from the end this builds to sharp susponse in go far afield and attempt to con- and made a prospecting trip to of steel to Mt. Logan. The line of the first part of the picture. quer a hitherto unclimbed peak for Mt. Logan last summer from the travel adopted will be to Vancou
In the middle section the their 1925 climb. Mt. Logan in Alpine Club of Canada's 1924 ver over the Canadian Pacific and emphasis passes from man to the Yukon is the objective. It is camp. Capt. McCarthy is a fam- from Seattle to Cordova via the animals. It here becomes a massive mountain, the highest ous mountain climber, having Alaskan Steamship Co.; thence by primarily e drama of beasts peak of which towers 19,850 feet. soaled Mt. Assiniboine, the Mat- Copper River and Northwestern OD the primeval velt. The above sea-level; a slightly smaller terhorn of Canada, 20 miles south. Railway to its terminus, Kenne bumane, awed and helpless, are paak Mt. King, rises nearby to an of Banff, and many other peaks in cott. From here, a little-used trail little more than spectators. The altitude of 17,130. Ms. Logan may the Canadian Rockies. H. F. Lam leads southeast up the Chitinn kiss of the young man and the be approached vis Logan Glacier, bert, of the Geodetic Survey of River Valley to the foot of Logan lone girl yes, even the search at its base; while Ogilvie Glacier, Canada, is to be the assistant lead- Glacier; from that point the way for her missing and perhaps slain a tributary glacier, presents & orand iss celebrated alpinist. He will lie for some 75 miles over the father-connote rather puny route of ascent that will likely be made the first and only ascent of rough broken ice of this glacier. emotions against the monstrous tried first. To attain the orest of Mt. Natazhat, 13.441 feet, near The summi: aimed for consists passions of the great jungle Mt. Logan will entail a climb of Mt. Logan. dwellers.
The intricate mechanics and
14,350 feet.
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of on elungated plateau-like. stretch of snow and ice, some 8 to Because of the prevalence of 10 miles in length, with a Bories development of novelty phasog Capt A. H. McCarthy, U.S.N., snow storms in July in the torri of higher elevations rising "above necessitated. aomo sacrifice of of New Jersey and British Colum- tory to be visited, it will be neces--it at intervals.
dramatic strength and coherence.
But in odpensation wo are spared much of the romantic hokum which ordinarily cloake the trite movie story. We hold with Hudson and Hoyt that the spectacle of two magnificent" beasts fighting on the edge of a precipice, beasta too large to have been wedged into Noah's scow, is more fascinating than the progress of the usual movie love story. At least, for a change.' A volcanic eruption, firing the region and setting the monsters into stampede, climaxos the eccond phase of the story: This is a toohnicians' triumph-a scene where scores of animals dead a million years are re- vived to snari and rage in savage combat before our eyes.
A brontosaurus, 100 feet long, falls from a cliff into imprisoning mud. He is caged by the party, which has found a way off the platoau, and is transported to London. Escaping there, ho ravans the streets. Masses of people are shown in panic flight at the apparition of another world. Finally the bronty crashes through a bridge and wal- lows away to the sea.
One comes with a start out of the gripping illusion.
"The Lost World" is swift, direct, super melodrama. There is little time for "acting," and little is done. Evont over. shadows characterization; the artificed bobaviourofgiant reptiles dims the action of human stars. Surmounting all is the marvel of, mechanical genius-indicating" new avenues for the movie, and putting up a challenging marker for First National.
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