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- BFI identifier88516
- Date1969 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisThe development of dinosaurs of various types until their extinction - mixes cel and model animation. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe second half of this film is based on some model animation from an earlier film "Age of Reptiles" by Arthur Hayward.
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- Subject
- CreditsProduction Team: Stuart Wynn Jones
Production Company: Halas & Batchelor
Production Team: John Halas
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Title
The Age of Dinosaurs (Original)
Category
Non Fiction- Collections
- Film / Video
16mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsAge of Dinosaurs - Seventh [or possibly eighth] in the series of eight films 'Evolution of Life'. [Model work and animation represents such creatures as the pterodactyl, tyrannosaurus and stegosaurus] Directed by Stuart Wynn Jones; produced by John Halas and Brian Borthwick; script by Bob Privett and Stuart Wynn Jones; animation by Brian Borthwick and Vic Bevis; music by Jack King; narration by Alexander Knox Papers include, script drafts, music cue sheet, correspondence with the Natural History Museum, photographs of museum exhibits used to illustrate the film - HAB-1-79-8
Script - File containing: - early draft commentary with working title 'The Era of the Dinosaur', no date c. 1966 - 1967 - final commentary script, no date c. 1966 - 1967 - HAB-1-79-8-1
Document: post-production - Music cue sheet giving information on length and type of film, distribution arrangements and brief details on music used, no date c. 1966 - 1967 - HAB-1-79-8-2
Document: exhibition - File containing: - pencil note regarding submission of storyboards to Natural History Museum [for approval] - typescript notes on how the film can be used to support the curriculum with regard to study of fossils - photographs of Natural History Museum exhibition showing dinosaur footprints [at Langton Matravers, Dorset], and an excavation at Mantells Quarry, Cuckfield, Sussex - small envelope containing photographs of dinosaur 'timeline' exhibited at Natural History Museum, no date c. 1966 - 1969 - HAB-1-79-8-3
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- Evolution of Life
Series Work - 769667
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
- +The Age of Dinosaurs
Work - 88516 - 1969 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
- +The Age of Dinosaurs
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