Dinosaurs!- A Fun-Filled Trip Back In Time! (Pt. 1)

Here's a favorite from my childhood.

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
• fossils
• Fred
• Savage
• 1987
• Golden
• Books
• Claymation

[kaijusamurai]

MY CHILDHOOD.

IT BURNS. AND I LOVE IT.

[TheTraveler12]

i had this on vhs.. wish i still had it... this was a fun movie for me as a kid.. love dinos and hte claymation was awesome.. especially love the rock song ..

[tkleine25]

OMG!!!! I REMEMBER THIS FROM MY DAYCARE!!! I HAVENT SEEN THIS VIDEO FOR 13 YR! GLAD I FOUND IT AGAIN! :D

[ygpkas316]

That T-Rex is singing the hell out of Mesozoic Mind! Classic I loved this tape! so many childhood memories.

[skinnywhop87]

I watched this video literally 10,000 times from the time i was a year old all the way till 6 years old. It is one of the key nostalgic things in my childhood that convinced me to pursue my studies in biology and evolution

[idisbandrewl]

Aww i love this video! I miss my childhood.

[Enzainer]

@Konata101 me too! i actually went looking for that tape the other day haha

[Konata101]

I used to own this movie. GOD I MISS IT

[kludgeon]

I have the same sheet set also.

[Anophis]

aaaaa this is awesome.

[samduz]

I still have the vhs somewhere but i was thinking about this the other day. Loved the claymation videos during the 80's and 90's. Its become a lost art

[Hoppusisgod]

I remember this!!