eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9j077 LOST WORLD herald '25 Willis O'Brien, lots of incredible dinosaur images not seen elsewhere! Date Sold 7/20/2014Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 10 3/4" x 16" [27 x 41 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) The Lost World, the classic 1925 Harry O. Hoyt silent fantasy dinosaur adventure thriller ("The World's Wonder Film"; "The greatest drama of adventure and romance your eyes ever have beheld."; "See gigantic pre-historic monsters clash with modern lovers in The Lost World"; "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous story"; "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous story"; with great special effects by Willis H. O'Brien who is billed as "Research and Technical Director") starring Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery (as Professor George Edward Challenger, the protagonist from a series of Doyle stories), Lloyd Hughes, and Alma Bennett. Note that when the producer/director team of Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper (who had made several acclaimed documentaries in remote areas of the world) were looking to make a fantasy movie set on a mythical island with a giant gorilla, they remembered the special effects from "The Lost World", and hired Willis O'Brien to do the special effects for their new movie, "King Kong"! "The Lost World" was O'Brien's first feature film, and he used the exact same stop-motion techniques of special effects that made "King Kong" so memorable. Note that the one-sheet poster for "The Lost World" shows an image of Wallace Beery pointing at a map of Africa, and there are NO special effects pictured on the poster. But the window card has a wonderful image of a dinosaur trampling on the residents of a city, and is THE poster to own from this movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in the mid 1920s, First National Pictures and Paramount Pictures created regular small heralds, but they also created over-sized "Rotogravure" heralds (printed in sepia in a 11" x 16" size or so, but printed like the Rotogravure sections of the Sunday paper). This is a really wonderful herald, not only because first release movie paper on this classic stop-motion sci-fi movie is virtually non-existent, but because it has lots of great dinosaur images on all four pages! Condition: very good to fine. The herald was folded across the middle and then tri-folded. There is the tiniest of paper loss at the crossfolds and a few tiny tears around the edges, but otherwise, this over-sized herald is in nice condition (and it is not fragile, which is unusual for items this old that are printed on newsprint). Learn More about condition grades
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