The Lost World started out as a 1912 book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Over the years, it’s been adapted, retold, continued, and parodied several times and I want to explore that today.
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Chapter Selection
0:00 Introduction/The Lost World Novel
13:18 The Lost World (1925)
21:07 The Lost Whirl (1926)
23:49 Lost World Manga (1948)
25:07 Two Lost Worlds (1951)
27:39 Lost Continent (1951)
30:29 The Lost World Comic (1957)
31:09 The Lost World (1960)
35:50 The Lost World Comic (1960)
36:22 The Lost World Comic (1962)
40:39 Unmade Lost World Movie (Mid-1960s)
41:26 The Lost World Comic (1972)
42:02 The Lost World Comic (1975)
42:22 Unmade Lost World Movie (1990)
43:06 Challenger: The Lost World Comic (1990)
43:38 The Lost World/Return to The Lost World (1992)
49:33 The Lost World Comic (1993)
50:25 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1995)
52:11 The Lost World Comic (1996)
52:59 Dinosaur Summer (1998)
54:11 The Lost World Play (1998)
57:36 The Lost World (1998)
59:04 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World TV Show (1999)
1:00:09 Conclusion (for now)
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Sources:
Articles used:
Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Lost_World
Lost World Manga
https://silentmoviemonsters.tripod.com/TheLostWorld/LWMANGA.html
Michael Crichton Lost World Essay
https://web.archive.org/web/20150624035254/https://www.michaelcrichton.com/introduction-arthur-conan-doyle-s-lost-world/
Videos used:
The Lost World (Original Movie)
https://youtu.be/loPZFVju8Nw?si=6EL8TrWYf9VK-_hQ
The Lost Whirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ku_OUbDVC8
Two Lost Worlds
https://youtu.be/I2M_3bVDwIs?si=tsA-n07bYBWf2rw1
Lost Continent
https://youtu.be/mJy7O2hPs2c?si=IJn12naKpa5KYHh8
The Lost World Play
https://youtu.be/QVCjzdZ2WUQ?si=A2UYPzvLlVXM_zpe
Background Music used:
Together With You
https://youtu.be/oOcv_vDdRAA?si=OXr0Fz5PxJ_6bzOk
With a Stamp
https://youtu.be/Wm7fXPwI-LY?si=P_qcfFct-wxteHOB
Almost A Year Ago
https://youtu.be/hq1cIXvRkq0?si=Qd3NLouWE7iQe_hD
Nighttime Stroll
https://youtu.be/1h2RostULJI?si=2LRKf_41FHdhkag2
Soul and Mind
https://youtu.be/zf6u_DUZEGw?si=phxVBxAtLFGkQtXV
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Wow. I saw the 1998 one as a kid. I always thought it was a fever dream cause I watched the 1999 TV show and clearly remembered the old man character being eaten by the t-Rex only for him to appear in the TV series.
Man, this is part 1 and it has went over most of the Lost World adaptations that I knew about.
You can actually watch the 1998 Canadian horror Lost World right here on Youtube. Albeit it's in Italian.
Funny thing is it's both the 1998 movie and the 1999 television series that are my favorite "adaptations". I know I've generally been more of a "faithful adaptation or it didn't happen" kind of person but something about both versions really caught my attention. I guess I really enjoyed the bloody horror of the 1998 movie, and as for the TV series, it was my absolute favorite 90s Adventure Show, and it still breaks my heart that it was cancelled. Unlike some other shows from the 90s, the writers actually had plans on how to end the series and from the sounds of it, it would have been glorious to behold. 🦖🦖🦖
as a lifelong fan of the novel, i enjoyed your presentation very much. please consider reviewing the caspak trilogy by edgar rice burroughs i have the two-part french comics from 1990 and it's VERY faithful to the book. it takes place in south america as does the novel.
The trilogy that starts with The Lost World is some of the more interesting stuff ACD ever wrote, product of the times though it is.
I've always loved the Lost World since I was a child, I had the Ladybird classics version which was an abridged version of the book with nicely painted illustrations. Still have it though it is very battered. It also came with a cassette to listen to the story and read along with it.
I wonder if part 2 will have the Radio Plays. I know of at least 3 that can be found online, but word of at least 5 running around in the ether.
I wonder if the "scientifically accurate" Young Earth Creationist propaganda version will show up in part 2.
I remember reading (audiobook) and being very disappointed in the book boring. This time the movies are so much better.
My personal favorite was the 90s adaptation and the animated series I loved the world building of the animated adaptation
I remember reading this book like two years ago and was so endeared to the characters (in Particular Roxton) but I literally audibly angry “YOU BITCH” when I read what she had done to poor Edward.
I mean seriously. I was so angry after all he’d gone through just for her to have played petty… AND WITH WHOM. SHEESH
Be sure to include the more recent books Tooth and Claw by Darren Hugh Burton and Project Tepui in the next part.
THERE I AM GARY THERE I AM
You include Michael Crichton's novel but not The Lost World : Jurassic Park movie that's actually closer to Conan Doyle's novel?
I’d recommend reading Primitive War by Ethan Pettus, it’s an amazing book series
I think Savage Land, which appears in the X-Men cartoon, is worth an honorable mention.
I don't know if there's a direct relationship, but it's still the same premise.
The references in Michael Crichton's the lost world were that the jeeps used for the expedition are called Challengers and that Crichton invented a scientist that investigated about TRex called Roxton
So they just left the siblings to die in Lost Continent?
as for the reptiles with glued on stuff that has to fight in real life, animal safety what is that?
It’s interesting how The Lost World’s many adaptations reflect our changing perceptions of ideas. @coldcrashpictures has a fantastic analysis of colonialism’s changing role in the story
Also, check out how the dinosaur portrayals change to reflect new discoveries, especially pre-and post-Renaissance
The Willis 'O Brien version is my all time favorite.
I just loved the Lost World Series from 1999 back when I was a teenager
It was streamed daily here in Brazil, and me and my family watched it everyday, even the reprises
It was so cheesy, but it was very fun
But the visual effects were ugly as hell
Man, the 1999 Lost World show was a great experience. It really needs a full review; though you might have to ahem hoist the Jolly Roger to watch it. Still, highly recommended. The pilot two-parter is as close to a book adaption as you can get, even tho Challenger doesn't attack Malone, as hilarious as it could be. Even while listening about these other adaptations, I know understand some of the Easter eggs that appeared in certain episodes. The intro alone gets you pumped up. The dinos are there, the ape men are, the other tribes are there, the lizard people tribe… And that first season cliffhanger ending is insane. Seriously, cannot recommend this series enough!
So happy Tezuka's work for mentioned lol 😆
The 98 film has a lot of gore compared to the other adaptations. I think there might have been nudity as well but I saw it on vhs in 2004 so bear with my memory
i'm sorry but the real lizards in dinosaur costumes are SO CUTE lol. obviously terrible. but they're slaying
02:40 I love your apt summary of the protagonist's motivations lol!
42:55 Well isn't that hypocritical coming from the same studio that made a Land Before Time 2 in 1990
Australia has an all Region DVD of the 98 Lost World which I own. Try searching around some Australian DVD online sellers. From the back of the DVD – Flashback Entertainment Catalogue Number 13262. Pal All Regions.
There are some books by author called Greg and the books are called primordia and they're Lost world books and them is really good
I find the lost world deserve a more proper accurate agitation. 🦕🦖
My guy your work here has been already helping to lay out the research that me and my panelists will be utilizing for a retrospective panel on the Lost World we have pitched to G-Fest this summer. I'd be honored to list you as a contributor in the credits for our panel should it get accepted at G-Fest.
4:46 Maple White is described as an American in the Novel just so you know. Specifically he’s from Detroit, Michigan.
Good vid, but you forgot to mention how much the TV show's theme song slaps
I used to own a copy of The Lost World 1998 and it was one of my favorites as a kid also I do know that there's an Italian dubbed version on YouTube
https://youtu.be/Brd9iUWXhto?si=gA-1WL30ICKQq5Vt
May I suggest that you also do a list of adaptations of the novel that came before this one, namely Jules Verne's "A Journey to the Center of the Earth"?
Dinosaur Summer is a pretty neat book with some cool ideas. After the events of the original story there was a bit of a dinosaur craze, however by the late 1940's it's mostly faded away. Dinosaurs have just become another sort of animal to the general public. Taking the circus dinosaurs back up the plateau is as much as publicity stunt as it is trying to help the animals.
The plateau is also pretty interesting, the reason it contains so many different animals from different periods is that is used to be several plateaus that are now mergeing. The big theropods are actually being outcompeted by terror birds, and there is a real sense that evolution has continued, a bit like Peter Jackson's King Kong, these are not just prehistoric creatues that never changed.
It also has a fair amount of illustations in it as well, might make for a good video.
"what some would call based"
This reeks of poorly hidden chuddery.
20:58 So, the original Lost World movie poster shows the allosaurus or t-rex? as the dinosaur who causes rampage in London, instead of the Brontosaurus. Talk about an early clickbait 😂
Hey! Check out Hazbin Hotel..one of Hell's overlords is a blinged out feathered raptor named Missi Zilla.
I wish books still had beautiful illustrations as a matter of course.
Your videos are always interesting and fun but this one was really good. As well as showing the twists on the core story, what is most interesting is how the movies progressed through the years. Can't wait for the next one.
It may not be an adaptation, but I was totally unaware of Osamu Tezuka's Lost World and now am really intrigued by it. His Metropolis – and the anime version of it by Madhouse and Rintaro – is amazing, so I want to check this out too. I guess he had a period where he just did stuff with the same name as novels and movies he never saw, lol. I also kinda like the literal interpretation of the title, that it's part of the world that was lost and now re-emerges. That's kinda neat.
Terrific video! Also, thank you for breaking it into parts. There are way too many creators who go hog-wild on their video essays and think it's totally acceptable to drop 2, 3 or even 4 hour videos! That's outrageous! People have school and work and life stuff going on; there are a zillion Youtube videos out there! We can't dedicate crazy amounts of time to vids like that. A one-hour, or faster if you're like me and speed 'em up to 1.25x or 1.5x speed, are just right. So again, THANK YOU Dino Diego.
The Lost World is one of my favorite adventure novels. Sadly, at this point I wouldn’t trust Hollywood with it.
Fun Fact: John DiMaggio (Futurama, Adventure Time, Gears of War) provided dinosaur & ape-men vocals for the live Alien Voices production of The Lost Word. This was before his voice acting career took off with Futurama.