This looks much earlier than 1930, based on both the fact that the film is silent, and the hair & clothing styles of the scientists who appear onscreen.
The Bray Studios did several "Science of" films, in 1918 & 1919. This film appears to come from that period, or sometime in the early 1920s. However, it is not listed on either IMDB or BCDB, so it's something of a mystery. Unless it was re-issued with this different title.
So they had all this information 80 years ago, but a majority of people STILL believe that the earth was made a few thousand years ago by a majical creature in the sky..
Some aspects of this film seem sophisticated for it's time, but to call the hyracotherium foxlike? It survived on a diet of plant shoots (just looking at the teeth you can get an idea oif it's diet) and looked very little like a fox FFS!
I learned all this in elementary and jr. high school mostly, but have forgotten most of it since then.
@TruegrassBoy are you kidding me idk what they were thinking when they filmed this, they had Gustov Holst's The Planets available to them - that would have been more better yeh for sure.
@fourminutewarning - This was originally a SILENT film, with no soundtrack at all. The soundtrack you hear now was added later, when this video was compiled for YouTube.
the score is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's the 1812 Overture. One of the most easily recognizable pieces of late 19th Century music. Considering the paleontological/biological theme of the film, perhaps Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, a la Fantasia would have been more to your liking?
The film ends at 10 minutes, leaving 2.5 minutes of silence and darkness at the end. Or maybe that's meant to represent the ultimate fate of mankind's evolution...
Great rare film, though, capturing the feeling and scientific knowledge of that era, with authentic 1920/30s classical background music
This looks much earlier than 1930, based on both the fact that the film is silent, and the hair & clothing styles of the scientists who appear onscreen.
The Bray Studios did several "Science of" films, in 1918 & 1919. This film appears to come from that period, or sometime in the early 1920s. However, it is not listed on either IMDB or BCDB, so it's something of a mystery. Unless it was re-issued with this different title.
OofusTwillip 9 months ago
So they had all this information 80 years ago, but a majority of people STILL believe that the earth was made a few thousand years ago by a majical creature in the sky..
Timmoux 1 year ago
Some aspects of this film seem sophisticated for it's time, but to call the hyracotherium foxlike? It survived on a diet of plant shoots (just looking at the teeth you can get an idea oif it's diet) and looked very little like a fox FFS!
I learned all this in elementary and jr. high school mostly, but have forgotten most of it since then.
JackRussellTerrier2 1 year ago
so this is what started discovery channel and perhaps mythbusters sad little scary and interesting
inr21sevier 1 year ago
They got a lot of this right, which surprised me because it's an 80-yr. old film.
porkolicious 2 years ago
@obsoehollerith lol
wompasdub 2 years ago
The music is appropriate....
TruegrassBoy 2 years ago 4
@TruegrassBoy You're kidding, right? The 1812 Overture? Napoleon laying waste to Russia?
way2muchsense 1 year ago
@TruegrassBoy are you kidding me idk what they were thinking when they filmed this, they had Gustov Holst's The Planets available to them - that would have been more better yeh for sure.
fourminutewarning 1 year ago
@fourminutewarning - This was originally a SILENT film, with no soundtrack at all. The soundtrack you hear now was added later, when this video was compiled for YouTube.
OofusTwillip 9 months ago
The music is inappropriate.
Was it lifted from a re-edited silent movie? A newsreel?
Let's see this clip with "Yakkety Sax".
jsl151850b 2 years ago
rofl how is it inappropriate jsl151850b?its only showing the timeline of a goat whatever that is
louisEX2 2 years ago
the score is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's the 1812 Overture. One of the most easily recognizable pieces of late 19th Century music. Considering the paleontological/biological theme of the film, perhaps Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, a la Fantasia would have been more to your liking?
htgaines 2 years ago
The film ends at 10 minutes, leaving 2.5 minutes of silence and darkness at the end. Or maybe that's meant to represent the ultimate fate of mankind's evolution...
Great rare film, though, capturing the feeling and scientific knowledge of that era, with authentic 1920/30s classical background music
orcarus 3 years ago
ilike classical stuff thanx 4 putting dat
white87nunu 3 years ago
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you put this on you tube because?????????????
AfroDude1994 3 years ago
Well........................it is how things were interper er entor er well how they thought it was in 1930.
clargdorp 3 years ago