Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous work is the creation of detective Sherlock Holmes, and indeed the first screen adaptation came in 1900. However, one of the most successful adaptations of his novels was not a Sherlock Holmes film. The Lost World was a dinosaur story and nobody had figured out how to adapt such a fantastic tale until Willis H. O'Brien came along.The man had developed a technique that enabled dinosaurs or other extinct beasts...
