*see Kids' Flix, p. 5 We are delighted to present a wonder from the pre-Jurassic (the Cinezoic) period, 1925's The Lost World, now beautifully restored. Known as "the granddaddy of all prehistoric monster movies," based on a tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World is a live-action feature with stop-motion animated creatures by Willis O'Brien, who went on to create King Kong. O'Brien's were the ne plus ultra in movie monsters, not only for their fierce realism but for their individual, sometimes impish personalities; just as King Kong became the darling of the Surrealists, you'll bond with Brontosaurus and his cynical sneer. He may simply be reacting to the corny acting of his captors in an expedition headed by Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery) whose account of a "lost world" has made him the laugh of London. The laughs stop when London Bridge is falling down under Bronty's weight. Cinematographer Arthur Edeson (The Thief of Bagdad) captures the netherworldliness of an Amazon jungle plateau where prehistoric life has been preserved, a spectacle magically photographed (and gorgeously toned) on sets more bonsai than miniature. The Lost World was cut by roughly half in 1929, the negative and full-length original considered lost. Intrepid explorer Jan-Christopher Horak of George Eastman House located a near-complete print at the film archive in Prague; this, combined with footage discovered at the Library of Congress and elsewhere, was restored by Eastman House's Ed Stratmann for the most complete presentation of The Lost World in ages.