Sir Arthur C.Doyle Made the First Step in Rapprochement of Different Media
He was delighted with the screening. Moreover, he demonstrated its sequences for the Society of American Magicians. A famous artist Harry Goudini was present. The spectators were impressed. The hints of C.Doyle convinced the auditory in the documentary origin of the sequences.
The Lost World of 1925 is an American silent adventure movie. First National Pictures, Hollywood produced it.
There was Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger. Also, it was directed by HarryO’Hoyt, special effects made by Willis O’Brien, the scriptor Marion Fairfax.
Conan Doyle appears in a frontispiece to the movie.
The film The Lost World is famous for pioneering effort in using of stop-motion animation. Artist, in our case, Harry O’Hoyt, a filmmaker, represented as an original generator of metaphors and linguistic play. Moreover, his basis is the presence of cultural text, which may be used in a free technique of bricolage.
He enters into complex relations with his precursor, i.e. the writer, Conan Doyle.The given relations are studied a little in the modern aesthetics. First of all, there are correlations between an artistic text and its visual kinetic reflection. The level of freedom in interpretation of the artistic text by a filmmaker is very significant.
Brief Synopsisof this movie has this structure.
Professor Challenger claims to have discovered a lost world in South America. He presents a paper to a scientific society. This world filled with prehistoric animals and ape-men.
Challenger forms an expedition to return to the Amazon country.
The Challenger party includes in its number: Paula White(Maple’s daughter), Ed Malone(an Irish reporter), Sir John Roxton(one of Paula’s suitors), Professor Summerlee, an eminent expert on beetles, and Challenger’s butler.
The party reaches the high plateau where the lost world begins. It finds the remains of Paula’s father. Moreover, there are witnesses of a fight between two prehistoric animals. They are later beset by ape-men and a brontosaurus.
The company finally escapes from the lost world. It returns to London, taking a brontosaurus with them. Ed Malone and Paula White married.
Willis H. O’Brien, Father of Puppet Animation and a Great Master of Special Effects in Movies constructed characters
in Clay and Rubber.
He started to cover armatures of future heroes with rubber skins. A rubber bladder allowed his models-monsters to "breathe", to fight. It moves increasing our imaginations and terrible fears. Differences between Film and Novel are as follows.
In the novel, Professor Challenger brings a pterodactyl child back to London. He wanted to prove to the people that his adventures were real. The terrible bird escapes, frightens a great number of people, then flies away.
In the film, yet, it is a grown brontosaurus. The Professor carried it to the capital of the United Kingdom. The monster escapes to rampage through the streets and breaks Tower Bridge.
The End of the Script describes events in a such manner.
DOUBLE EXPOSURE - EXT. OCEAN
boundless waters - the long Atlantic swell. An ocean liner steaming
along, homeward bound, meets the Brontosaurus - headed for South
America.
SLOW FADE OUT.
THE END.
With Marion Faitfax the script became the sphere of literature in one hand, in another one as the artistic basis for movie.
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