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3 unusual facts about The Lost World


Grizzly Big Boar

Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997): The LAR Grizzly Big-Boar is used as the tranqulizer guns.

Jp2

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a 1997 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg

Jurassic Park 2

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, the 1997 sequel to the 1993 film "Jurassic Park"


Andrew J. Kuehn

Mr. Kuehn developed trailers for films including the original Jaws, the Indiana Jones trilogy, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The French Connection, The Sting, Funny Girl, Aliens, Top Gun, Back to the Future, JFK, and Witness.

Arthurdactylus

It was in 1994 named by Eberhard Frey and David Martill in honor of Arthur Conan Doyle, who featured large reptilian pterosaurs in his novel The Lost World, about a professor finding prehistoric animals still alive on a plateau in South-America.

BBC One 'Balloon' idents

Produced by Aardman Animations, The three toys used were all connected to BBC One's Christmas Day schedule that year, so there was a dog (the terrestrial premiere of Toy Story), a dinosaur (the dramatic epic The Lost World) and a Reliant Robin van (the comeback of Only Fools and Horses after it had last aired in 1996).

Cryptofiction

Examples include works by Jules Verne (The Mysterious Island), Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World), and Edgar Rice Burroughs (The Land That Time Forgot), and recent fiction such as Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Steve Alten (the Meg series and The Loch).

Dark Room Notes

In November 2011 DRN performed a specially-commissioned, self-composed soundtrack to the 1925 silent film The Lost World, at The Model in Sligo.

InGen

In the novel, InGen founder John Hammond is killed in the accident and InGen files for Chapter 11 on October 5, 1989, the island is destroyed by the (fictional) Costa Rican Air force, the survivors are sworn to secrecy and by the time of The Lost World, InGen is defunct with its equipment being sold off.

Lindstradt air rifle

The Lindstradt air rifle is a fictional rifle made in Sweden used in Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World, and in the novel's film adaptation The Lost World: Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg.

The Real Lost World

The Real Lost World is a documentary, released on December 10, 2006 by Animal Planet, where a team of scientists journey to Monte Roraima in Venezuela, the plateau that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary work, The Lost World.

Vanessa Lee Chester

She has worked on a variety of projects, most notable for her roles as Kelly in Steven Spielberg's The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), and as Becky in Alfonso Cuarón's A Little Princess (1995).

Vitina Marcus

She appeared in numerous television shows throughout the 1950s and '60s, sometimes billed as Dolores Vitina. She was cast in Irwin Allen's 1960 production of The Lost World, as well as Taras Bulba with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner.

Vladimir Obruchev

Both of these stories, imitating the pattern of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, depict in vivid detail the discovery of an isolated world of prehistoric animals in hitherto unexplored large islands north of Alaska or Siberia.


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Dan Deublein

He also appeared with Leonard Nimoy and Christopher De Lancie in the live radio production of The Lost World.

Michael Stearns

In the next years, Michael Stearns worked again with Ron Fricke, scoring Baraka, his best known composition and released several albums, working with Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and/or Ron Sunsinger (1989 : Desert Solitaire, 1994 : Singing Stones and Kiva) or alone (1993 : Sacred Sites, 1995 : The Lost World).

Trevor H. Worthy

For the book The Lost World of the Moa (2002) he and Richard Holdaway received the D. L. Serventy Medal from the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union in 2003 for an outstanding published work about Australasian avifauna.

Volcano, The Blast Coaster

Volcano was designed around a dormant attraction once known as the Lost World and Smurf Mountain.

William Friese-Greene

In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene, presented by Dan Cruickshank about Claude Friese-Greene's road trip from Land's End to John o' Groats, The Open Road, which he filmed from 1924 to 1926 using the Biocolour process.