Screening of the 1925 silent film The Lost World at the John Gillum Branch Library as part of the Weeknight Cinema: Silent Nights series.
The Lost World (1925) screens at the John Gillum Branch Library on Wednesday, September 30. It's a silent feature based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 novel, and it's part of the library's Weeknight Cinema: Silent Nights series.
The story follows a reclusive explorer who claims dinosaurs still roam the remote borderlands of Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. The science halls of the day laugh him out of the room, so he strikes a deal with a newspaper: they cover his expedition on the condition that they also fund it. He sets off with several goofy companions in tow, and the plot takes them deep into the jungle to find the creatures he's been talking about.
Beyond the story, the film is a piece of cinema history. It features stop-motion effects created by Willis H. O'Brien, the first ever used in a U.S. feature film. O'Brien went on to create the landmark saurian short The Ghost of Slumber Mountain, and you can see the roots of that work here in the way the dinosaurs move and interact with the human cast. Watching it in a theater—even a library—gives those effects more room to breathe than they would on a small screen.
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The screening is at the John Gillum Branch Library, 2505 Steck, in Midtown Austin. It's part of the Weeknight Cinema: Silent Nights series, so if you're into silent film, this is one of the spots in town where you can catch them on the big screen. The movie is The Lost World (1925), and it's showing Wednesday, September 30.
