Ghost of Slumber Mountain, 1918 (part 2 of 2)

[titus02906]

A genuine piece of cimema history! Thanks to the person who posted it. Enjoyed 100%!

[Zardoz99]

That guy looks like Woodrow Wilson.

[egdeltur666]

Quite a... large gap of accuracy between the two theropods.

Oh well, people in the 1910's were just stupid, I guess.

[Kooshmeister3]

@egdeltur666 No. Not stupid. Just working with incomplete scientific evidence. What is accurate today wasn't back then.

[egdeltur666]

@Kooshmeister3 They were better than this in 1918. Not by much, but this wasn't the 1870's.

And even in the 1870's we had Thomas Huxley, so no excuses period. It isn't that nobody knew what a dinosaur is supposed to look like before the 1970's, it's just that not many had it figured out before Bakker published Dinosaur Heresies.

Also Women couldn't vote back then. Don't defend the past when it's dead wrong.

[Kooshmeister3]

@egdeltur666 What exactly is the "large gap of accuracy," anyway? I see the usual movie goofs; the tail-dragging and overall chubbiness. Accurate movie dinosaurs took a while to come into vogue anyway, regardless of what scientists said.

I also want to point out that it's wrong to look upon past peoples and judge them based on modern principles and ethics. Whether or not they were wrong is beside the point. The time(s) in which they lived dictated their actions and mindsets, by and large.

[egdeltur666]

@Kooshmeister3 "for the time" is not an excuse. Thomas Huxley, 'nuff said.

As people figure out more about the world, there is a gradual decrease in stupid mistakes (like, for instance, putting a sauropod's head on the wrong end... that never happened after, what, the 1900's at latest), but there are smart in stupid in every generation, in every time, in every culture.

That's kinda like saying it's okay to be racist in the 1920's. Excuses don't fly with me when people obviously knew better.

[egdeltur666]

@Kooshmeister3 Oh, and the "large gap of accuracy" was the part with the Phorusrhacid and the "Tyrannosaurus" side by side. One was up to current (1918) understanding (because it was a neornithe, of course) and the other was barely recognizable as a theropod.

That was quite jarring to me, as O'brien usually sets his monsters up in their own world and doesn't really bother doing any research past R. Knight, which gives them a certain charm. Here it's just odd.

[porkboy696]

that rex is either way oversized or he's fighting a baby triceratops. the size difference wasnt that great

[MandaloretheYoung]

The original cut for this movie was 90 minutes long. Most of the footage was removed before the film was released.

[only257]

impressive stop motion animation, the stop motion animated film probably inspiried planet of the dinosaurs 1978!

[tomitstube]

i'm guessing that's a brontosaurus.  the animals get way cool after that. the t-rex is awesome. nice ending.

have you seen the ending where Joe's naked and posing like a faun?

[lovefornylonfeet]

The man, Willis O'Brien. Everybody's mentor, from Ray Harryhausen to James Cameron and Steven Spielberg.

[rabsmiff]

fantastic early gem from O'BRIEN, which helped to pave the way for 'LOST WORLD' and 'KING KONG'.

[Oppledeldoc]

Thank you for putting it here, I've always wondered about it. I just read about it again on "1001 Misspent Hours" and that made me think to look for it here.

[Goomonkey13]

This was a pretty good movie.

[SpaceComics]

Excellent. I saw a copy someone was selling on eBay, but the quality of yours is much better.

[MattBL]

Wow great job. Thanks.

Willis O'Brien as Mad Dick. How cool!