Dinosaur

Duration: 13 min.

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Pyramid

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: An animated fantasy depicting the age of dinosaurs as imagined by a fifth grader and his classmates., Using animated line drawings and clay animation, this film explains the lives of dinosaurs. Facts on particular dinosaur species are offered. For example, the brachiosaurus had fewer ounces of brain in proportion to body weight than any other known backboned animal. The film also describes the evolution of birds from dinosaurs.

Complete Record: , A classroom report on dinosaurs comes to three-dimensional, clay animated life when the class genius shares his knowledge of prehistory with a group of unruly fifth graders. Chalked line drawings are transformed into prehistoric animals. The plant-eating Brontosaurus and the carnivorous Tyrannosaurus Rex inhabit a primitive world formed from brightly colored clay. , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.