Posters and pictures
Lost Horizon: Posters and pictures | Publications | Formats & Versions | Tibet Jock Hinchliffe, Lost Horizon , UK poster, 1937. Lost Horizon is a 1937 film directed by Frank Capra for Columbia Pictures, Hollywood. It was based on the 1933 novel by British author James Hilton. The story centres around a mythical lamasery and village located high up in the Himalayan mountains of Tibet. It was called by Hilton Shangri-La - a variant of the Tibetan Buddhist nirvana known as Shambala - and included the Valley of the Blue Moon wherein the village was located. An isolated outlier of Eastern and Western civilization, it is to Shangri-La that a disparate group of English and American travellers are brought - kidnapped - with one selected to carry on the work of the dying High Lama. The book has a philosophical basis with themes of impending apocalypse and eventual salvation amidst the peace and solitude of the utopian Shangri-La. It has been stated that Capra's film is an