It All Sarted With A Young Marble Cutter,

named Willis O’Brien who was sculpting tiny T-Rex figurines,

and led to a donkey in the streets of Paris advertising the film, made from the book, The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the above still credit First National Pictures, in 1922, Conan Doyle showed O’Brien’s test reel to a meeting of the Society of American Magicians, which included Harry Houdini. The astounded audience watched footage of a Triceratops family, an attack by an Allosaurus and some Stegosaurus footage, Doyle refused to discuss the film’s origins. On the next day, the New York Times ran a front page article about it, saying “(Conan Doyle’s) monsters of the ancient world, or of the new world which he has discovered in the ether, were extraordinarily lifelike. If fakes, they were masterpieces” but back to Willis, who had a boxing background, on a slow day at work, he modelled a tiny T. Rex along with a friend who made a second, soon the models were fighting, a newsreel cameraman was enlisted to film the stop motion, fast forward, using the ingenious use of split screen technology, The Lost World was born, and the donkey? have a look here, the translation, “All the world has seen ‘The Lost World’ except me because I am a donkey.” it is so outdated now, but at the time it soon led to King Kong, and paved the way for the movies like Jurassic Park we so love today.