The Lost World

For decades The Lost World could be seen only in an abridged version...

...about an hour in length. This edition combines portions of eight prints...

...to present the most complete reconstruction believed possible.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Stupendous Story of Adventure And Romance

THE LOST WORLD

By arrangement with Watterson R. Rothacker

Introducting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the story.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy

To the boy who's half a man Or the man who's half a boy.

LONDON

I have a presentiment that you are going to propose, Ed.

I do wish you wouldn't, for this are so much nicer as they are.

But why can't you love me, Gladys? Now tell me what's amiss with me.

I will only marry a man of great deeds and strange experiences...

- a man who can look death in the face without flinching!

In the office of the London-Record Journal .

I want your legal advice. Profesor Challenger threatens to sue my paper...

for doubting his yarn about live dinosaurs.

FAMOUS ZOOLOGISTS RETURNS FROM SOUTH AMERICA WITHOUTH PROOFS OF STRANGE TALE

Profesor Challenger, well-known author and scientist, has returned to London...

...with a strange tale of Mammoths,

Pterodoctyls and other prehistoric monsters...

...roaming at large somewhere on the upper reaches of the Amazon. Unfortunately...

...for the professor's reputation for veracity,

he refuses to give the exact location of his alleged...

...discoveries, and still more unfortunately,

the photographs in his possession are so badly damaged...

(when the Professor's canoe is said to have been overturned)

...that they certainly cannot be acepted...

...as evidence in this case.

I believe Challenger is insane!

He nearly killed three reporters I sent to interview him today!

Mr. McArdle, couldn't you send me on a dangerous assignment?

All I need is an opportunity -

You seem very anxious to lose your life!

Have you been interviewing Challenger, Malone?

Don't apologize - hurry over to Zoological Hall and cover Challenger's lecture.

Reporters are barred - but get in!

There's Sir John Roxton - famous hunter and explorer.

He's here to check up on Challenger's cock-and-bull story.

Well, Malone, we're in for a lively session tonight.

- the students are out in force to heckle old Challenger.

Challenger has made himself a public laughing - stock by his tale about live dinosaurs!

What can he hope to gain by such lies?

The back country of the Amazon contains over...

... fifty thousand miles of unexplored water-ways.

Who can say what may be living in that jungle - as vast as all Europe?

But how can Challenger's story be true?

These creatures have all been dead ten million years!

You might at least do him the justice to hear him state his own case.

Reporters are barred-

...if I show my press pass I'll get kicked out. I wonder if you -

Gladly - I'll take you in on my pass.

That's profesor Summerlee, the eminent coleopterist.

- owing to lack of proofs, this Society cannot sponsor Profesor...

...Challenger's statement,

but is glad to afford him this opportunity to state his case,

and, we trust, clear his name.

Bring on your mastodons! Bring on your mammoths!

I will - if any of you spineless worms are brave enough to go back with me...

...into the trackless jungles where these monsters live!

I told you old Challenger is sincere!

And I'm not here tonight to defend my statements - but to demand that...

...a committee be formed to go back to the Lost World with me -

Looks like a riot. It's a beastly shame!

When dealing with undeveloped minds,

...it is useless to appeal to reason - for they have none!

I am calling for volunteers!

Volunteers to face death - or worse - for the sake of science.

I am sixty-seven years of age - but, because I think you are a liar and a fraud -

I accept your challenge, sir!

Accepted! Better an old fool - than a young coward!

I'm neither a student nor a scientist - but I'd like to be counted in on this!

My friend, Sir John Roxton! Accepted!

Your record as a hunter of big game will add weight to your testimony - if we return!

Professor Challenger, I'd like to go on this expedition!

Probably the brain of a child - but the body of an athlete.

Accepted. What is your name?

Edward E. Malone -

And your occupation?

I- I'm a-a-er-a reporter, sir. London-Record Journal.

Take me home - I've had enough of this! Eleven Enmore Park, Kensington, West!

Professor Challenger, I've got to go on this expedition! The girl...

...I'm engaged to won't marry me until I've faced death or -

This man attacked me!

Do you give him in charge, sir?

No. I was to blame. I intruded upon him.

Now, sir, can't we talk this expedition over sanely?

Sir John Roxton is a friend of mine-

Why didn't you mention that before?

You've hurt another nice young man! I saw you from the dining room window!

If my husband gets abusive again - just call me!

You betrayed a glimmer of intelligence just now while talking to the policeman-

Sit down!

Do you want to join this expedition because you believe my statements are true?

Austin!

Tell Miss White I wish to see her at once!

Have you shown Malone - the diary?

Property of Maple White?

BRONTOSAURUS

Miss Paula White - daughter of poor Maple White -

the unfortunate explorer whose notebook you hold in your hands.

Miss White was her father's trained assistant.

She will tell you why she came to me.

I was in camp with jungle fever when my father...

...went up to explore that terrible plateau.

Carnivorous beast Allosaurus.

Evidently already almost externet even lea for I saw few of they.

A Living Brontosaurus

You mean that you actually saw living descendants of these monsters...

...that are supposed to have been dead for millions of years?

Yes, they were tremendous in size and ferocity.

Our bearers were so terrified they deserted-

...carrying me back to the coast - leaving my father...

...marooned up there - with those beasts -

He would go - in spite of what we had - seen.

My husband promised to raise funds for a rescue party - but instead of...

...getting people to help him, he throws them out of windows and things!

Why, this is a great human interest story -

And even if my paper was not convinced of the scientific value of your statements -

...it might finance a rescue party provided that the exclusive publication rights-

I'll swear not to send an article back to my paper without your full approval, sir!

If Sir John Roxton will go with me -

I believe we can make my managing editor see this thing!