McCay ging destijds op tournee met de film en ging daarbij voor het filmscherm staan waarbij hij deed alsof hij de geanimeerde Gertie de diplodocus dresseerde. De film was grensverleggend voor zijn tijd en wordt gezien als de eerste animatiefilm rond één specifiek personage dat qua karakter geloofwaardig is uitgewerkt. Ook opmerkelijk is dat McCay de hele film eigenhandig geanimeerd heeft.
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)
De onderzoeker professor Challenger beweert dat er in de buurt van het Amazone-gebied dinosaurussen leven. Niemand gelooft hem, behalve journalist Edward Malone die samen met een jager en wat anderen richting het gebied trekt.
Rivalry between two behavioral scientists gets out of hand...
Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.
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.
Een regisseur van natuurdocumentaires genaamd Carl Denham krijgt een kaart in handen met daarop de locatie van het verborgen Skull Island, waar de god Kong zou leven. Na een werkloze vrouw genaamd Ann Darrow van de straat geplukt te hebben voor de hoofdrol vertrekt hij met zijn crew naar Skull Island voor opnames.
Beleaguered adventurer Carl Denham returns to the island where he found King Kong.
Casper Caveman heeft honger, dus probeert hij op een eend te jagen, Daffy Duck.
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
It's just another day at the Granite Hotel.