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again and again in all other regions. The flora and fauna of this region sup posedly antedate man by many million years. The professor and ms party :. have strange adventures with winged reptiles the size of a ferryboat and big unlovely things that were numerous when the world was young. Inciden- tally they happen upon a chimney of blue mud projecting up from the underworld, and the blue mud like that of South Africa, is filled with diamonds.
 Background Is Very Meagre
 While the detail of the monsters was shown in the pictures exhibited to the magicians the background was con spicuous for it's meagreness. It was barren for the most part with Vagle, unidentified tree here and there, appa- rently indicating an unwillingness of the scenic artist to commit himself to the details of the vegetation in the age of reptiles. No opening was left for a palentologist to complain that a Quatenary shrub had been grafted on a Silurian landscape or that other an achronisms of hundreds of millions of years had been committed
 These pictures of antediluvian mon sters are produced by r1imrng small models on miniature stage. A twig in the foreground makes a great tree in the picture. A blade of grass near the camera lens shows on the film like some vegetable monolith of the proportions of Washington monument. With the sense of proportion of the spectator imposed upon by such de- vices the small models suggest the greatest of created things.
 The details were carefully worked out by MT. Dawley. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, Director of the Amer lcan Museum or Natural History. al- lowed him to make careful drawings and studies of the skeletons and TO productions on exhibition there, and other palaeontologists checked +' work, as the films were prepared. No body ever saw a dinosaur walk and eat, but the tetth indicate the diet, footprints preserved in the sandstone show the stride and the manner of carriage of the monster and from other indications scientists have worked out the habits so well that they can be filmed with considerable confidence.
 The models are not caused to act and then photographed continuously. as in an ordinary motion picture, but are set up in the initial attitude and photograph taken. Then they are moved slightly toward a different at nude Then second photograph is taken. Then they are moved third time and rephotographed and so on until after thousands of separate poses the reel is completed
 Each change of attitude is cbnckod up by meteorological data and bv measurements in order tod make them as correct as possible from the scien- tltlc standpoint "The Ghost of SIun Der Mountain" and Along the Moon beam Trail" were exhibited before the American Society of Biologists.
 Now what has happened is this. An employe of mine who learned the pro- cess by working in my office has been claiming, as employees sometimes do, that he did all the work and that the idea belongs to him and that sort of thing
 have received no notice whatever Ioefore reading about it today that it was contemplated to use my work in thls fashion, and I shall certainly con suit my lawyer at once and seek an injunction against the production or The Lost World"