Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back In Time! (Part 4)

http://www.MesozoicMind.com - 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.

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[baragon2001x]

the best movie ever!!!!! this brings back such good memories

[larrytopsoil]

I love you, whoever uploaded this movie in 4 parts.

[DigitalRecursor]

I remember ordering this from those book orders through grade school when it first came out. Watched it so much I wore out the tape.

[kicktrid]

This SCARED THE PISS OUT OF ME when I was little! I had recurring nightmares that the "red clay tyrannosaurus rex" was chasing me down the street!

[copperkiddo]

Is it me or did Philip sound like Bart Simpson? Such great memories. I remember not liking the death scenes as a kid.

[hairymannnn]

whoa, i had no idea until now that Phillip was played by Fred Savage, the kid from The Wizard and later as The Mole in Austin Powers 3. amazing.

still, i remember seeing this video at a local museum at my college university when i was a little guy; i remember it was a VHS in a TV in front of a row of seats, all in front of a gigantic Mosasaur fossil hanging from the ceiling. very nostalgic indeed.

[Stryder687]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE the 90's loved these dinosaurs! this was the coolest thing ever. Dinosaurs eating each other. SWEEEEEEEEEET

[ThndrMadMaxd]

I remember this from when i was little. God bless the 90s and growing up in it. haha

[flyingscience]

Hello fossil lovers ! I have made over 50 fossil videos for you :beginners classes , field trips and paleontologists lectures . Search under "Cincinnati fossils" or "Dry Dredgers "(oldest fossil club in the USA). Enjoy !

[Darklurkr]

Best part of the whole video :D

[sailorraisin123]

FINALLY

[megawolf7]

I guess I missed this one as a kid. This is all new to me.