Word: brontosauri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pterodactyls, brontosauri and jungle foliage are the same as those in King Kong but young Kong himself is a new animal. His father was black but he is white, and only 12 ft. tall. Young Kong dies as bravely as his father, though less dramatically, when his island is disrupted by an earthquake...
Phantasmagoria. The fantastic pyrotechnics of colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they...
...themes and orchestral backgrounds in building up emotional effects in harmony with the picture. Thus one of the greatest virtues of the silent film has been resurrected. The orchestral background is the 1933 prototype of the organ which played "Oh Susanna" for the "Covered Wagon" and "Marche Slav" when brontosauri stalked through "The Lost World." The whistling epidemic that has swept Harvard since "42nd Street" was the child not of single renditions of "Shufile Off to Buffalo," "I'm Young and Healthy," etc. but of the almost constant playing of all of these tunes through the entire six reels...