Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back In Time!

Another uploader, FearlessSwan, had a very good description of this video, so courtesy of him/her-

"Dinosaurs! - A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time! is a movie released by Golden Book Video in 1987 under their "GoldenVision" series. It stars Fred Savage playing a grade school student named Philip who gives a class report on dinosaurs, with the help of an animated chalkboard and Will Vinton's claymation dinosaurs.

Originally created in 1980, when it was known more simply as Dinosaur, the 17-minute claymation short by Vinton Studios would later be used for this 1987 video. The popular short is also played at the Smithsonian Museum and has won numerous awards.

Dinosaurs! was designed as an educational film for young children new to the world of prehistoric life; the video slipcase describes the film with "Discover the real monsters who dominated the earth for millions of years!" The cartoon animation of the chalkboard is used to elaborate on attributes such as the extinction of the dinosaurs as well as their brain capacity, while the Vinton claymation illustrates, in a colorful and simplistic manner, the brutal lives of the many dinosaurs. The movie also introduces a music video for the song "Mesozoic Mind" by Charmer, featuring cartoon dinosaurs performing it."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Dinosaurs
• fossil
• fossils
• Fred
• Savage
• smithsonian
• golden
• vision
• claymation
• 1980
• 80s
• 1987
• animation
• mesozoic
• mind
• charmer
• will
• vinton
• studios

[corr14]

I'm high as shit and this is the greatest thing ever.

[LamangoKaijura]

I still have this VHS,

[TiniNormi]

Did this scare the shit out of anyone else as a child?

[Troutfisch]

This takes me back, was thinking about this earlier today and just had to do a search for it. Thanks for posting up!

[FatGuyWithAKatana]

omg nostalgia overload :O

[MartenFerret]

So eighties...

[SuperKing487]

this is the best movie back in the day

[SuperKing487]

wow i havent seen this since i was 7yrs old. this is crazy

[TheBlackViper1007]

although the claymation ending wasn't really scientificly accurate, it's still an awesome movie! this was like one of the first dinosaur videos I ever watched in my whole life.

[pauldeg927]

So trippy

[mewt66]

i love this movie