Review by tavm

This will be the first in a series of reviews I write on the work of Willis H. O'Brien, the clay model animator who would become famous for the silent The Lost World and the original King Kong. In this short, he makes some cavemen, a cavewoman, an ape called Wild Willie, and a dinosaur. The themes are: fighting over a girl, trying to get food, and how strong are one species against another. Verdict: Primitive but an important look at how stop-motion animation would evolve through the years after O'Brien's pioneering work here . I'll review a few more of his shorts from subsequent years before his big break on The Lost World...