Although not the first feature-length animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distinguished it from earlier animated "trick films", such as those of Blackton and Cohl, and makes it the predecessor to later popular cartoons such as those by Walt Disney. The film was also the first to be created using keyframe animation.

A plagiarised version of Winsor McCay's short from 1914

Two cavemen, The Duke and Stonejaw Steve, call on Miss Araminta Rockface. The hated rivals fight, and Steve wins when he throws The Duke into a pot of boiling water. A title card introduces a third rival, "our unassuming hero, Theophilus Ivoryhead." Miss Rockface invites the three men into her father's drawing room/cave, apologizing for not offering tea, since it has not been discovered yet. The Duke and Steve fight again, and everyone rushes out of the cave. Mr. Rockface notices his pot of food is empty; earlier, Wild Willie the Missing Link had eaten it. Mr. Rockface tells the three suitors they will have to procure their own dinner. Steve locates a desert quail and shoots an arrow at it, but the arrow misses the quail and happily (for Steve) hits The Duke's behind. Meanwhile, Wild Willie is still hungry and goes hunting for snakes. He finds a dinosaur's tail instead...

A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.

In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.

A magic aeroplane takes two children to the Moon, where they encounter prehistoric monsters and witness a battle between them. As far as is known this was the first film to combine realistic stop-motion dinosaurs and live-action actors in the same shot. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

This early animated short depicts a Stone Age-era circus.

Windsor McCay's partially lost follow-up to his tremendouly successful Gertie the Dinosaur. Gertie has been brought into the modern world. Continually perplexed by her new surroundings, she begins to explore the new sights. But when she sleeps, she dreams of the way it used to be, in the days when the world was full of dinosaurs like herself.

Sculptress Virginia May is seen making a clay model of a tyrannosaurus rex, which is animated using stop motion, and then fights a stop-motion triceratops. Although Miss May's only known relationship with the movies is this particular short, her contemporary, Willis O'Brien and his student Ray Harryhausen certainly made the field a lively one until computer animation caught up in the 1990s -- and arguably their artistry is still unsurpassed. (IMDb)

In un altopiano del Venezuela viene ritrovato il diario di viaggio dell'esploratore Maple White, raffigurante alcuni schizzi di animali preistorici, il che proverebbe, secondo l'eccentrico professor Challenger, come i dinosauri esistano ancora sulla Terra. Il reporter Edward Malone, insieme al famoso cacciatore John Roxton e a un gruppo di avventurieri, organizza una missione per l'America Latina con l'intento di svelare l'esistenza delle antiche creature.

Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...

Nella storia dei giorni moderni (1920), Adam, un idraulico, è felicemente sposato con Eva, una casalinga ossessionata dal guardaroba, fino a quando non incontra accidentalmente una stilista di moda superba. Alla richiesta di ...

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a subject for parodies and cash-in attempts. One of them was The Lost Whirl. This film featured stop-motion animation by Joseph L. Roop, who worked on the original classic, The Lost World.

A lost submarine discovers a secret island where dinosaurs still live. The film, 20 minutes long, was scrapped by RKO. Approximately 4 minutes survived.

The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.

Carl Denham è un avventuroso produttore di documentari. Insieme a una giovane disoccupata di New York, Ann, parte alla volta di un'isola tropicale, Skull Island, abitata da un gigantesco e leggendario gorilla, King Kong. Il gorilla s'innamora della bella Ann e, preso in trappola, viene catturato da Denham. Portato a New York in catene, viene esibito. Ma King Kong riesce a liberarsi e a fuggire in cerca della sua amata Ann. Lo uccideranno sulla vetta dell'Empire State Building, dove si è rifugiato con la giovane donna, mitragliato da aerei da guerra.

E' trascorso qualche tempo da quando il regista Denham ha avuto l'infelice idea di allestire il sensazionale spettacolo con King Kong, il gigantesco scimmione catturato sull'isola del Teschio. In compagnia del capitano Englehorn e della giovane Hilda, figlia del proprietario di un circo, Denham torna sull'isola misteriosa, dove salva un piccolo Kong, che si dibatte prigioniero nelle sabbie mobili. L'animale, riconoscente, li conduce nel luogo dove è nascosto un favoloso tesoro. Un improvviso maremoto sconvolge, però, l'isola inabissandola per sempre...

Casper Caveman is hungry, so he tries to hunt for a duck, Daffy Duck.

Tumak, membro della tribù preistorica delle Rocce, viene esiliato e si unisce alla più pacifica tribù delle Conchigli, dove si la bella Loana gi insegna le buone maniere. Costretto a lasciare la tribù delle Conchiglie per combattere, Tumak, insieme a Loana, tornare alla tribù delle Rocce, ai quali Loana mostra loro l'errore dei loro modi brutali - fino a quando il vulcano erutta!

It's just another day at the Granite Hotel.