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Dinosaur! (1985 Film)
''Dinosaur!'' is a 1985 American television documentary film about dinosaurs. It was first broadcast in the United States on November 5, 1985, on CBS. Directed by Robert Guenette and written by Steven Paul Mark, ''Dinosaur!'' was hosted by American actor Christopher Reeve, who some years before had played the leading role in ''Superman''. In 1991, another documentary, also titled ''Dinosaur!'' though not related, was hosted on A&E by the CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite. Content Jointly with Reeve's narration, the documentary shows special effects scenes which reconstruct dinosaurs and their era, along with interviews with the most famous paleontologists at the time of the documentary shooting, including Jack Horner, Robert Bakker, Phil Currie, and Dale Russell. After a short introductory sequence and the subsequent opening credits the film starts with the mating of Hadrosaurus, a species which in the documentary is identified as "hadrosaur", "the duck-billed dinosaur" or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Guenette
Robert Guenette (January 12, 1935 – October 31, 2003) was an American film producer, screenwriter, film director, television director and television producer, recipient of the Directors Guild of America Award. Guenette is considered one of the first documentary directors to introduce the "newsreel style" in documentaries. He and his son, Mark, were co-founders of the International Documentary Association. Filmography Writer, cinema * '' The Defector'' (1966) * '' The Tree'' (1969) * '' The Mysterious Monsters'' (1975) * '' The Man Who Saw Tomorrow'' (1981) Director, cinema * '' The Tree'' (1969) * '' The Mysterious Monsters'' (1975) * '' The Man Who Saw Tomorrow'' (1981) Director, TV documentaries * '' Our War in Vietnam'' (1962) * '' National Geographic Specials'' (1965, TV series) * '' They've Killed President Lincoln!'' (1971) * '' Appointment with Destiny'' (1971-1973, TV series, Guenette directed 4 episodes out of a total of 7, and wrote 2) **''The Plot to Murder H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juvenile (organism)
A juvenile is an individual organism (especially an animal) that has not yet reached its adult form, sexual maturity or size. Juveniles can look very different from the adult form, particularly in colour, and may not fill the same niche as the adult form. In many organisms the juvenile has a different name from the adult (see List of animal names). Some organisms reach sexual maturity in a short metamorphosis, such as ecdysis in many insects and some other arthropods. For others, the transition from juvenile to fully mature is a more prolonged process—puberty in humans and other species (like higher primates and whales), for example. In such cases, juveniles during this transformation are sometimes called subadults. Many invertebrates cease development upon reaching adulthood. The stages of such invertebrates are larvae or nymphs. In vertebrates and some invertebrates (e.g. spiders), larval forms (e.g. tadpoles) are usually considered a development stage of their own, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prehistoric Beast
''Prehistoric Beast'' is a ten-minute-long experimental animated feature film conceived, supervised and directed by Phil Tippett in 1984. This sequence is the first film produced by the Tippett Studio, founded by Tippett. Made with the go motion animation technique, scenes from ''Prehistoric Beast'' were included in the 1985 full-length documentary '' Dinosaur!'', first aired on CBS in the United States on November 5, 1985. On April 2011, the Tippett Studio had published on its YouTube official channel a digital restoration of the short. Synopsis Set 65 million years ago in what is now the Canadian province of Alberta, this short film depicts the chase and predation of a '' Monoclonius'' (sometimes synonymous with '' Centrosaurus'') by a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (or a closely related genus like '' Albertosaurus''/'' Gorgosaurus'' or '' Daspletosaurus''). The short opens with a tracking shot in the middle of a forest at night. The ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is busy eating and finish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown Atlanta, Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of Golden age (metaphor), classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co. film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. Unlike its sister networks TBS (American TV channel), TBS, TNT (American TV network), TNT, and TruTV, TCM does not carry any sports cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randal M
Randal may refer to: People Given name * Randal and Randall (given names), English-language masculine given names. * Randal Gaines, American politician *Rand Paul, United States Senator Surname * Allison Randal, a linguist, software developer and author. * Hakon Randal, (born 1930), a Norwegian politician. Fictional characters * Randal Graves, character in Kevin Smith's ''Clerks'' and ''Clerks II''. Places * Randal, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran * Randal Tyson Track Center, a 5,500-seat indoor track in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA * Randal, a hamlet of le Vrétot, a French commune in Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ... Other * Randal Óg CLG, a Gaelic Athletic Association club, founded in 1953. *" Lord Randall" or "Lord Randal", a British ballad * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American Film, motion picture visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio founded by George Lucas on May 26, 1975. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when he began production on the original ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'', now the fourth episode of the Skywalker Saga. ILM originated in Van Nuys, California, then later moved to San Rafael, California, San Rafael in 1978, and since 2005 it has been based at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio of San Francisco. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired ILM as part of its purchase of Lucasfilm. As of , Industrial Light & Magic has won 15 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Best Visual Effects. History Lucas wanted his 1977 film ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'' to include visual effects that had never been seen on film before. After discovering that the in-house effects de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Tippett
Phil Tippett (born September 27, 1951) is an American film director and visual effects supervisor and producer, who specializes in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation. Over his career, he has assisted ILM and DreamWorks, and in 1984 formed his own company, Tippett Studio. His work has appeared in movies such as the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy, ''Jurassic Park'', and ''RoboCop''. In 2021, he released his long-gestating stop-motion film '' Mad God'', which was funded through Kickstarter and distributed by Shudder. Early life Tippett was born in Berkeley, California. When he was seven, he saw Ray Harryhausen's special effects film, '' The 7th Voyage of Sinbad'', and says his life's direction was set. After completing a bachelor's degree in art at the University of California, Irvine, he went to work at the Cascade Pictures animation studio in nearby Los Angeles. Career Stop motion In 1975, while still working at Cascade Pictures, Tippett an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mokele-mbembe
In several Bantu mythologies, mokele-mbembe (also written as "mokèlé-mbèmbé") is a mythical water-dwelling entity that is believed to exist in the Congo River Basin. It is variously described as a reptilian creature, a spirit, or a member of the extinct lineage of sauropods. In the early to mid 20th century, the entity would become a point of focus among adherents of cryptozoology and young Earth creationism, resulting in numerous expeditions led by cryptozoologists and/or funded by young Earth creationists and other groups with the objective to find evidence that invalidates or contradicts the scientific consensus regarding evolution. Paleontologist Donald Prothero remarks that "the quest for Mokele-Mbembe ... is part of the effort by creationists to overthrow the theory of evolution and teaching of science by any means possible". Additionally, Prothero noted that "the only people looking for mokele-mbembe are creationist ministers, not wildlife biologists." Most mainstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster (), known affectionately as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water. Popular interest and belief in the creature has varied since it was brought to worldwide attention in 1933. Evidence of its existence is anecdotal, with a number of disputed photographs and sonar readings. The scientific community explains alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster as hoaxes, wishful thinking, and the misidentification of mundane objects. The pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology has placed particular emphasis on the creature. Origin of the name In August 1933, the ''Courier'' published the account of George Spicer's alleged sighting. Public interest skyrocketed, and countless letters were sent detailing different sightings.R. Binns ''The Loch Ness Mystery Solved'' pp 19–27 The letters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptids
Cryptids are animals or other beings whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. Cryptozoology, the study of cryptids, is a pseudoscience claiming that such beings may exist somewhere in the wild; it has been widely critiqued by scientists.Mullis (2021: 185): "Eschewing the rigors of science, cryptozoologists publish for a popular audience rather than for experts resulting in the practice itself frequently being derided as a pseudoscience."Loxton & Prothero (2013: 332): "Whatever the romantic appeal of monster mysteries, cryptozoology as it exists today is unquestionably a pseudoscience." Loxton & Prothero (2013: 320): "Cryptozoology has a reputation of being part of a general pseudoscientific fringe—just one more facet of paranormal belief." (Both quotes from Donald Prothero)Church (2009: 251–252): "Cryptozoology has acquired a bad reputation as a pseudoscience [...] Until detailed, methodical research becomes standard practice among cryptozoologists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opossum
Opossums () are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia () endemic to the Americas. The largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere, it comprises 126 species in 18 genera. Opossums originated in South America and entered North America in the Great American Interchange following the connection of North and South America in the late Cenozoic. The Virginia opossum is the only species found in the United States and Canada. It is often simply referred to as an opossum; in North America, it is commonly referred to as a possum (; sometimes rendered as ''possum'' in written form to indicate the dropped "o"). The Australasian arboreal marsupials of suborder Phalangeriformes are also called possums because of their resemblance to opossums, but they belong to a different order. The opossum is typically a nonaggressive animal and almost never carries the virus that causes rabies. Etymology The word ''opossum'' is derived from the Powhatan language and was first recorde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
