Journey to the Beginning of Time

[Kingcobrasaurus]

Loved this movie as a kid!

[Spectans1]

Tie kresťanské rozprávky na konci to úplne zabili.

[MajorBilly]

@Spectans1: What a team they porobili crêpe Americans? :/

Tie Christian tales in the end it completely killed.

[Spectans1]

To čo s tým porobili tí krépi Američania?!:/

[copburner]

better then jurassic park

[WolfEyesatNight]

Bones-aurus is that Argentina's capital?

[Autostade67]

Love the quote about the Haida who live "off the coast of Alaska" yeah...uh...in...uh, you know...Canada. Do you have to be THAT insular that you can't name other countries?

Also...hey...how come we can't see their faces and they're always wearing those big hats???

[MajorBilly]

@Autostade67 Controversially, they also removed any evidence that this movie was filmed in Czechoslovakia!  Each scene where you can't see their faces was shot in New York with different actors.

[wilsonalicea]

esta pelicula es mega buena para verla en familia

[STUCK2U]

Great movie! I was very impressed! :o)

[Toracube]

Thanks for posting this.

[zak259]

End of this movie is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!

[patp464]

Fairly well done movie. Not great but not bad either. One thing that ceases to amaze me is how deep people dig their oars into the water (just the blade goes). Good premise for a movie and quite informative as well. Thanks to the Czech Natural History Museum and thanks to you for uploading it.

[wwwonderful]

"Dinosaurs died out some 60 million years ago"

This film was made before idiotic creationists got their brains washed

[narvikkid]

This is excellent, Czech or US =]]

[CapitanoGUC]

@narvikkid czesh but overdone by the american propaganda machinery ...:-/

[shnushnu36]

this was really false lol

[henndri]

BEAUTIFULL

[dtek40k]

holy nostalgia trip batman!

[masbarrena]

this is such a great fantasy movie!! i still have this on VHS. too bad it hasn't been released on DVD yet. if it gets released on DVD, hopefully it will be remastered

[KriegDerSterne77]

@masbarrena it was released on DVD in Germany

(Region 2 PAL DVD)

"Reise in die Urwelt" is the name

[scitsalcoryp]

I am 48,000 I hope this is good !

[4ingP]

@scitsalcoryp I doubt that.

[scitsalcoryp]

@4ingP 48,000 friend..no seriously I was the 48.000th viewer..it was weird

[4ingP]

@scitsalcoryp I meant that I doubt that you're 48,000 years old.

[MichaeIRedd]

There is nothing controversial to the American beginning and ending of this movie.

[DoowopJohnnyBoy]

Cesta Du Praveku (Czeck) 1954 Karel Zeman. Journey to Beginning of Time (U.S.) 1960 great Film

[Ghlan]

NOSTALGIA-GASM

[nightcrawler2005]

Thanks big time for posting this movie. I remember watching it at the theatre as a Saturday matinee back in the 1960's. Its driven me nuts for years trying to remember the title of it.

[tlacenkascibuli]

@chanctonbury63 no expensive 3d animation or what? this movie is not c - you are probably "c" viewer.

[playbyyourself]

So thank u for posting this. I'm glad I stumbled on it because I could not recall its title - just kids going back in time and the museum!

[playbyyourself]

I was 10 when I saw this in a nyc-area theater and all these years I never forgot the parts involving the nyc museum of natural history because that museum was such a marvelous,mysterious old place for me to go as a kid. So much for opinions on editing!

[AVBK2000]

You can see the behind the scenes docu "The Magic World of Karel Zeman" now in HQ on the YT-Channel "KlassikVideo".

[Grifiki]

"We all come from eggs, even today! External or Internal, is the only difference!"

[me25422]

@Grifiki no its not the same. we don't hatch from eggs. 

[Cokoholicar]

@me25422

Dude, it's almost as if we do....

[me25422]

@Cokoholicar trippy!!!

[SuperMario143]

... The bird at 0:46:55 that thing used to terrify me as a child. I remember when i first saw this i was about 4 or 5 and I ran out Screaming when i saw that thing. O_O

[RevRonL]

i remember seeing this as a kid in the theater but had not remembered it until finding this. IMDb said it was released in '55, but i had to see it some time between '66 - '68. Brings back a memory of a good time. Anyone know when it was released in the States?

Thank you very much for posting.

[MajorBilly]

@RevRonL It was released in 1955 in Czechoslovakia titled "Cesta do pravěku" which is also posted on my Youtube page.  The dubbed version was released in the United States in 1967

[SublimeTrash77]

Hey JOJO lol

[1kellymccartney]

this was one of my favorite series,tho short..

[DVDluvr123]

At about 4:10, dinosaurs are studied by paleontologists not by archaeologists.

[theoutremerlibrary]

Lovely film .With glorious youth before our society had it's 'teeth pulled'...May courageous individualism return again.soon.

[JzillaStudio134]

This is a Great Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xSpartanWarrior117x]

These kids were like the first Gooney's.

[jmzimmerman1984]

so before there was no Biblical reference?

[zemanovec]

Tak jak řvou ti dinosauři tak řvou i krávy u nás v kravíně. (write in Czech republic)

[MajorBilly]

@zemanovec:  As the dinosaurs roar and roar and cows in our cowshed.

[Psifonian2]

That Phorusrhacos was about to fuck up Doc's world.

[KillerB62]

Wow! This really brings back memories from my childhood. They used to show this in segments on a local children's show called "Garfield Goose and Friends" hosted by the late Frazier Thomas on WGN TV Channel 9 Chicago. So great seeing this again in full, & without segments LOL

[spceman]

@KillerB62 For sure! I remember rushing home many times to catch this, as I loved monster and dinosaur flicks, but it seemed I would usually miss the dinosaur segments. Seemed like Frazier would show about 3min. of them floating on the boat, then a cool preview for next time with a glimpse of a dino, and then I would miss it! AArrgghh. :)

[JacobGoTeam]

Good Boy JO JO .... LOL i have been looking for this movie FOREVER i couldn't rember the name of it

[Arainion]

I don't really mind about the end, but american beginnig is crap. Original is much better. But it's amazing movie anyway. Don't understand why americans changed the backgrounds of the film. So it looks more american probably. But i don't like it. There is an original version on youtube with English subtitles. Check it.

[MajorBilly]

@Arainion Probably American cinemas would not have shown it without the Americanized beginning.

[MajorBilly]

@DVDluvr123 Name 3 foreign-language children's films shown in American theatres.

[DVDluvr123]

@MajorBilly I didn't say anything about children's films. You want me to prove a claim that I never made. I suggest you read my original comment again.

[MajorBilly]

@DVDluvr123 So you can't name 3 foreign-language children's films shown in American theatres. Is that because American cinemas would not have shown them?

[DVDluvr123]

@MajorBilly You are making the same mistake as before. I never said anything about children's films. You are again asking me to prove a claim that I never made. Read my original comment.

[MajorBilly]

@DVDluvr123 Your reply is a response to a post about a _children's_ film. Read my original post.

[DVDluvr123]

@MajorBilly You are wrong again. Your original post don't say anything about requirements for “children's films” in American theaters. You just “it” as in this specific movie.

[MajorBilly]

@DVDluvr123 You are unable to determine that in a post to a _children's_ film, you couldn't figure out that "it" refers to a _children's_ film?

[MajorBilly]

@DVDluvr123 My proof is that 'Cesta do pravěku' was not shown in American cinemas. And 'Journey to the Beginning of Time' was.

[tyranasar]

CHILDHOOOOD holy shit i havent seen this in years

[MajorBilly]

Hurrah! I'm the 3000th view!!!

[xxGalacticGeminixx]

Thank you so much for re-uploading this ^ ^

[tfoley001]

Thanks for the upload! I always looked forward to the time of year when this was played on Garfield Goose. It's fun to see how much our knowledge has changed over the last 50 years!

[folkdesigns]

I was always hoping Spielberg would make a modern remake of this someday! This was originally shown in Chicago on WGN's Garfield Goose with additional New York footage and split up with installments. It was a big deal in the 1960's.

[LukeSkyWalker723]

I think it would be better if you split this movie into parts. Like ten or nine miniute parts.

[brittabolin]

Thank you so much for posting. I watched these installments on Family Classics/Garfield as a toddler and never saw the ending. I loved the series, thought it was absolutely realistic and now enjoy how much they did with so little production ability. Informative, funny and earnest. A great film that I've so enjoyed