In 1922, the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – creator of Sherlock Holmes – showed a film of model dinosaur animation to the Society of American Magicians. It made headlines in The New York Times. DINOSAURS CAVORT IN FILM FOR DOYLE.
Conan Doyle did not explain to its astounded audience that the film had been shot using a technique which had already been used somewhat unconvincingly in other silent pictures – but greatly improved upon by the American effects technician Willis O’Brien. It was a sequence fro the movie of Conan Doyle’s novel The Lost World, which was released in 1925.
Models are made to move by exposing a single frame of film at a time and adjusting the model to a new position between each shot. When the film is projected at the normal speed, the model – a brontosaurus, giant ape or some other creature – seems to move naturally.
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