Walking With Dinosaurs
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Product Description
New Blood, Time of the Titans, Cruel Sea, Giant of the Skies, Spirits of the Ice Forest, Death of a Dynasty. Ride the ultimate time machine from the beginning of dinosaurs to their spectacular end! Using the latest in computer animation, this series puts you in the middle of Jurassic stampedes and T Rex battles, through 155 million years of pre-history.
Dinosaurs may be extinct, but they still rule the world. Dinosaur enthusiasts of age 6 and up should be fine; it's far less violent than anything from the Jurassic Park films. In it, the scientists freely admit that some educated guesswork was involved and explain how they arrived at the dinosaurs' appearances and behavior. Each part also focuses in on the life of an individual dinosaur or family of dinosaurs. What they witnessed was dinosaurs brought to life, not in the modern world as in Jurassic Park, but in their original habitats millions of years ago. When the first episode of the six-part BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs originally aired, an estimated one out of every four Britons tuned in. Revived using computer-generated effects that cost close to $5 million and sophisticated animatronic models, the dinosaurs look barely a day over 150 million years old. The result is a series of short dramas that both inform and entertain.
The show is so realistic that some scientists and viewers have criticized its seamless blending of fact and speculation. --Eugene Wei Those who wish to maintain a healthy skepticism about the theories set forth should watch the exclusive footage from The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs included on the DVD and available via mail-in on the VHS. Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with every detail of the re-creation, it is difficult to deny that Walking with Dinosaurs succeeds in providing dinosaur lovers with an experience that can't be matched by mere images of paleontologists and fossils.
There's an extra 15 minutes of footage on the video that wasn't broadcast on TV, much of it dinosaurs attacking each other. With the violence, plus explanations of mating, cannibalism, and other terrifying things, young kids should skip it. The creators present the series in classic nature-documentary style, complete with an authoritative narrator (Kenneth Branagh) to guide the viewer through the footage of dinosaurs mating, fighting, raising their young, grazing, or, in the case of carnivores, hunting. Each episode focuses on a theme, whether it is a particular era, such as the Mesozoic, or a particular type of dinosaur, like those that ruled the oceans.
Product Info
- Actor
- Kenneth Branagh
- Aspect Ratio
- 1.77:1
- Audience Rating
- Binding
- DVD
- Creator
- Tomi Bednar Landis, Georgann Kane
- EAN
- 9780790757445
- Format
- Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Box set, NTSC
- ISBN
- 0790757443
- Label
- BBC Warner
- Manufacturer
- BBC Warner
- Number Of Discs
- 2
- Original Release Date
- 2000-04-16
- Product Group
- DVD
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_DVD
- Publisher
- BBC Warner
- Region Code
- 1
- Release Date
- 2000-09-26
- Running Time
- 180
- Studio
- BBC Warner
- Theatrical Release Date
- 2000-04-16
- Title
- Walking With Dinosaurs
- UPC
- 794051150424
- ASIN
- B00004Z4SU
- Sales Rank
- 73804
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- February 10, 2012, 5:36 am
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