The Lost World (1925)

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The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

The very next day we did actually make our start upon this remarkable expedition. We found that all our possessions fitted very easily into the two canoes, and we divided our personnel, six in each, taking the obvious precaution in the interests of peace of putting one Professor into each canoe. Personally, I was with Challenger, who was in a beatific humor, moving about as one in a silent ecstasy and beaming benevolence from every feature. I have had some experience of him in other moods, however, and shall be the less surprised when the thunderstorms suddenly come up amidst the sunshine. If it is impossible to be at your ease, it is equally impossible to be dull in his company, for one is always in a state of half-tremulous doubt as to what sudden turn his formidable temper may take.

For two days we made our way up a good-sized river, some hundreds of yards broad, and dark in color, but transparent, so that one could usually see the bottom. The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed. The dark indicate vegetable decay, while the others point to clay soil.

Twice we came across rapids, and in each case made a portage of half a mile or so to avoid them. The woods on either side were primeval, which are more easily penetrated than woods of the second growth, and we had no great difficulty in carrying our canoes through them. How shall I ever forget the solemn mystery of it? The height of the trees and the thickness of the boles exceeded anything which I in my town-bred life could have imagined, shooting upwards in magnificent columns until, at an enormous distance above our heads, we could dimly discern the spot where they threw out their side-branches into Gothic upward curves which coalesced to form one great matted roof of verdure, through which only an occasional golden ray of sunshine shot downwards to trace a thin dazzling line of light amidst the majestic obscurity.

As we walked noiselessly amid the thick, soft carpet of decaying vegetation the hush fell upon our souls which comes upon us in the twilight of the Abbey, and even Professor Challenger's full-chested notes sank into a whisper. Alone, I should have been ignorant of the names of these giant growths, but our men of science pointed out the cedars, the great silk cotton trees, and the redwood trees, with all that profusion of various plants which has made this continent the chief supplier to the human race of those gifts of Nature which depend upon the vegetable world, while it is the most backward in those products which come from animal life. Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks.

This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Producer: Jamie White
Production Company: First National Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w (tinted)
Keywords: adventure; fantasy
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

TEXT CREDIT: The lost world Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Publisher: A. L. Burt Company, 1912. Original from: Princeton University. Digitized: Feb 20, 2008. Length: 309 pages. Subjects: Fiction › Science Fiction › General, Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character) Dinosaurs, Fiction / Science Fiction / General, Prehistoric peoples, South America +sookie tex

Don't bite the hand that's feeding you AUDIO

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Don't bite the hand that's feeding you / Jimmie Morgan ; [performed by] Walter Van Brunt ; [words by Thomas Hoier].

CREATED / PUBLISHED Orange, N.J. : Edison, 1916. NOTES Coupling date: 6/8/1916. Cutout date: 10/31/1929. On label: tenor with orchestra. With (reverse side): Are you from Dixie? ('cause I'm from Dixie too) / Billy Murray and chorus.

SUBJECTS: Popular music--1911-1920. Emigration and immigration--Songs and music. RELATED NAMES. Performer: Van Brunt, Walter. Hoier, Thomas.

MEDIUM: 1 sound disc : analog, 80 rpm ; 10 in. CALL NUMBER: Edison Diamond Disc 50357-R

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: edrs 50357r

Composition License: MP3 (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 in this case words by Thomas Hoier, Music by Jimmie Morgan, 1915, are now in the public domain.

Performance License: The Library of Congress is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection (see Title 17, U.S.C.) or any other restrictions in the materials in the Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. Suggested credit line: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

IMAGE CREDIT: Title: Don't bite the hand that's feeding you [sheet music] Composer. Morgan, Jimmie, Lyricist: Hoier, Thomas, Place of Publication / Creation New York. Published / Created: 1915. Publisher: Leo Feist. Form: sheet music. Physical Description: 1 score. Repository: Music Division.

Last night, as I lay a sleeping,
A wonderful dream came to me.
I saw Uncle Sammy weeping
For his children from over the sea;
They had come to him, friendless and starving,
When from tryrant's oppression they fled,
But now they abuse and revile him,
Till at last in just anger he said:

If you don't like your Uncle Sammy,
Then go back to your home o'er the sea,
To the land from where you came,
Whatever be its name,
But don't be ungrateful to me!
If you don't like the stars in Old Glory,
If you don't like the Red, White and Blue,
Then don't act like the cur in the story,
Don't bite the hand that's feeding you!

You recall the day you landed,
How I welcomed you to my shore?
When you came here empty handed,
And allegiance forever you swore?
I gathered you close to my bosom,
Of food and of clothes you got both,
So, when in trouble, I need you,
You will have to remember your oath:

If you don't like your Uncle Sammy,
Then go back to your home o'er the sea,
To the land from where you came,
Whatever be its name,
But don't be ungrateful to me!
If you don't like the stars in Old Glory,
If you don't like the Red, White and Blue,
Then don't act like the cur in the story,
Don't bite the hand that's feeding you!

This audio is part of the collection: Community Audio
Artist/Composer: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Keywords: Edison
Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0 +sookie tex