The Lost World

From 1925, it’s the first major “live” dinosaur movie!

The movie opens with reporter Edward Malone coming into the company of Professor George Edward Challenger, who has been making some astounding claims. Challenger has been asserting the existance of a hidden plateau in South America where the laws of natural selection has been suspended and dinosaurs still reign.

Coaxed by the incredulity of Professor Summerlee, Challenger has prepared an expedition into the Amazon in search of this plateau, consisting of himself, Summerlee, explorer and friend Lord John Roxton, Malone, and Paula White. This mission is even more personal for Miss White: it was her father, Maple White, who discovered and was subsequently lost on this plateau.

Upon reaching the plateau, the company of explorers (and the viewer) are treated to a visual feast of prehistoric life. Unfortunately, it does not come until after they are stranded on the table-land by a feisty brontosaur. But during their tenure, they witness many a marauding Allosaur, a villainous ape man, and a cataclysmic volcanic eruption.

Thankfully they are able to make it off the plateau and take advantage of the only piece of evidence they can take back with them: a trapped and injured Brontosaurus they witnessed fall from the plateau during a fight with an allosaur. Upon taking the brontosaur back to London and would ya know it, the beast escapes and all hell breaks loose.