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Dengue Fever Announce The Lost World Performance

09/21/2010
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(PR) Dengue Fever has been invited by UCLA Live to perform their score to the silent film classic "The Lost World" (1925) on Friday, November 12 at Royce Hall.

This score was commissioned in 2009 by the San Francisco International Film Festival and has only been performed live twice (in San Francisco and again in Houston for the 2009 Cinema Arts Festival).

"Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name, The Lost World revels in adventure-flick thrills but is equally effective as a cinematic document of our fascination with our own prehistory. Featuring amazing stop-motion sequences by animation pioneer Willis O'Brien, who later animated King Kong, and enlivened by outlandish costumes and sets, this dyno-dino epic was a smash hit upon its release in the mid-Roaring Twenties...

While the film exemplifies groundbreaking cinematic techniques and razzle-dazzle storytelling, it also serves as a reminder of (hopefully) obsolete American attitudes toward the big, bad world at large. Amid its now dissonant charms are anachronistic cultural stereotypes regarding science, marriage and race..."

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