This film fragment is part of an unfinished feature intended as the follow-up to the 1925 dinosaur classic The Lost World, created by special effects pioneer Willis O’Brien and director Harry O Hoyt. The realistic interaction between the stop-motion animated dinosaurs and live-action humans was made possible by the Dunning process, a newly conceived photographic method in which the live-action and animated sequences are filmed separately, but printed on a single roll of film. Merian C Cooper was so impressed with the Creation footage that he used a test reel of the film’s highlights to garner support for King Kong.

Age recommendation: All ages

2.00pm Sun 20 NovQueensland Art Gallery
In the beginning: Sunday Silents with live music:
Man's Genesis (17 mins) screens alongside
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (6 mins),
Creation (6 mins)
and Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (11 mins)

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