The Lost City is an independently made filmserial produced in 1935. Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Serial is a term, originating in literature, for a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication. ...
The film took the premise of that year's Phantom Empire but transferred the lost civilization, motif from the west to another popular serial locale, the Africanjungle. Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after realizing that a series of electricly induced natural disasters had been detected in the area. There he finds Zolock, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex under a mountain. In the popular imagination lost cities are real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that have fallen into terminal decline and been lost to history. ... For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ... Box Log Falls, Lamington National Park, Queensland, Australia Jungle refers usually to a dense forest in a hot climate. ...
Zolock had created the natural disaters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist there hostage with his daughter. He had also forced the scientist to create mindless "giant" slaves out of the natives as a private army. As the serial progresses we learn that the sceintist had also turned another tribe, the Wangas, into white burley haired midgets.
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