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Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: The Valley Of The Mists The Valley Where Time Stood Still Gwangi's Revenge - The Valley of the Dinosaurs Runtime: 1 hr 36 min Background: The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 American film and the last dinosaur-themed movie to use stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen. Willis O'Brien, who was responsible for the effects in 1933's King Kong, had planned to make The Valley o...

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Runtime: 1 hr 31 min Background: The Land That Time Forgot is a 1974 British-American co-production based on the 1918 novel of the same name. American International Pictures provided the bulk of the budget and filming was done at the Shepperton Studios in England. Some landscape scenes were filmed at a disused claypit in Reading, Berkshire. The prehistoric animals were hand puppets d...

Nature Series: Dinosaurs is a British TV series possibly produced by the Longman Group Ltd. in 1982 and looped at the Ulster Museum and/or Dorchester Dinosaur Museum. All the North American tapes are marked as having been produced by Diamond Entertainment in 1993, but the boxes, especially the backs, resemble the ones for the "Educational Favorites" series released by Trans Atlantic Video in 1990.   Nature Series: Tyrannosaurus Rex Released 2003 to 2006 / 30 min / Diamond Entertainment The first eight minutes are taken up by the 1930s loony toons cartoon, Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur , followed by footage of crocodiles and a narrator explaining how dinosaurs are similar to reptiles. Next they explain how dinosaurs are not similar to reptiles, the difference between carnivores and herbivores, and some true/false trivia. Several minutes of Godzilla footage with someone making silly reaction noises are followed by an educational segment on fossilization, collection and ...

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley. Also known as: Runtime: 1 hr 25 minutes Background: The Crater Lake Monster is a 1977 film produced by Crown International Pictures. It was produced as a throwback to 1950s monster films and initially featured Bigfoot. This was changed to a prehistoric creature after a series of similar films featuring the hairy humanoid released around that time. According to the writers and directors, William R. St...

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Journey into prehistory Cesta do pravěku Runtime: 1 hr 33 min (Czech) 1 hr 24 min (North America) Background: Journey to the Beginning of Time is a 1955 Czechoslovak film produced by Filmové Studio Gottwaldov. The film's imagery was heavily inspired by paleo-artist Zdeněk Burian and used full-sized models for the prehistoric animals in conjunction with 3D models that were anim...

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Planeta Bur Planet of Storms Storm Planet Runtime: 1 hr 18 min Background: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet is a 1965 Russian film produced by The Filmgroup. This movie is basically the film Planeta Bur dubbed into English with a few new additional scenes added in. Footage from the films A Dream Come True (Mechte Navstrechu) and Battle Beyond the Sun (Nebo Zovyot) were also reused....

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: Legend of Dinosaurs The Monsters of Prehistory Earthquake 10° God of the Sea Giants of Prehistoric Times The Giant Monster Bird vs. The Giant Dragon God The Monster Birds Against the Island of the Dinosaurs Runtime: 1 hr 34 min Background: Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds is a 1977 Japanese film produced by Toei Company. The idea for the film reportedly came from Toei's p...

Intro: This is a series on old dinosaur movies. Specifically, I am looking at anything released before 1990; before Jurassic Park revolutionized cinema with its CGI animation. I will not be covering anything "dinosaur-adjacent", such as kaiju monsters like Godzilla or the creature from The Giant Behemoth, which are perhaps inspired by dinosaurs, but clearly not meant to represent any real world genus. I will also be skipping over films that are heavily dependent on "borrowed" footage from other films, such as the Valley of the Dragons / Prehistoric Valley . Also known as: N/A Runtime: 1 hr 25 min    Background: Dinosaurus! is a 1960 American film produced by Fairview Productions and Jack Harris Productions. A few scenes were filmed on the Island of St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Marcel Delgado was only given two weeks out of an agreed six, to make the dinosaur models. The stop-motion brontosaurus model and jungle set miniature would go on ...