According to the titles towards the end, the finale of this movie is missing. According to the IMDb, the original runtime is 10 minutes. Those two statements would seem odd, put together, because the truncated version I watched was more than 13 minutes long. Welll...
The set-up is that a man and his two nephews are out camping and after they fall asleep, they are visited by Mab of the fairies, who gives them an airplane that can travel between planets, and a magical ring to summon her. Off they fly, past the sort of images and camera trickery that Melies used a score of years earlier, to a planet where there are lots of dinosaurs, courtesy of Willis H. O'Brien.
At this point it ceases to become puerile. O'Brien wa an early mater of stop-motion animation, best known for the ape in KING KONG, although he worked on many projects until his death in 1962. There are some neat dinosaurs here, stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus and so forth. Excellent for the era, still good today.
The set-up is that a man and his two nephews are out camping and after they fall asleep, they are visited by Mab of the fairies, who gives them an airplane that can travel between planets, and a magical ring to summon her. Off they fly, past the sort of images and camera trickery that Melies used a score of years earlier, to a planet where there are lots of dinosaurs, courtesy of Willis H. O'Brien.
At this point it ceases to become puerile. O'Brien wa an early mater of stop-motion animation, best known for the ape in KING KONG, although he worked on many projects until his death in 1962. There are some neat dinosaurs here, stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus and so forth. Excellent for the era, still good today.
