Released 100 Years Ago Today - 1 July 1925

Hop to It! (1925)

Stars: Bobby Ray, Oliver Hardy, Janet Dawn

Director: Ted Burnsten

Writer: Ted Burnsten

Cumberland Productions

Time: 23 min.

Plot

Two nutty bellhops raise havoc at a posh hotel. 

Released 100 Years Ago Today – 22 June 1925 (USA)

The Lost World (1925)

Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes

Director: Harry O. Hoyt

Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle (based upon the novel by), Marion Fairfax (screenplay)

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Silent

First National Pictures

Time: 106 min

Rating: Unrated

Plot

Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given to him by fellow explorer Maple White's daughter, Paula. Malone's paper funds an expedition to rescue Maple White, who has been marooned at the top of a high plateau. Joined by renowned hunter John Roxton, and others, the group goes to South America, where they do indeed find a plateau inhabited by pre-historic creatures, one of which they even manage to bring back to London with them.