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"LONEWOLF" wrote:
>I believe you are
talking about that series narrated by Barbara Feldon.
It was called "The Dinosaurs!", and I agree, it is
great. (Not to be confused with "Dinosaur!", the horrific Walter
Cronkite one. Can Walt not pronounce the word "dinosaur"
correctly??? :-) I have all the Feldon episodes on tape, and I watch it a
lot. I didn't spot *any* inaccuracies, although I could be
wrong.
>Interestingly, there was an animation sequence that showed
a whole herd of migrating pachyrhinosauri, and the
>artist had rendered them all with a massive nose horn,
which is one of the most impressive things I have ever
>seen, since at that time all the artistic renditions I had
seen had them with that rather disappointing nose pad.
The animations in that one were indeed fantastic, if
featherless (but that's just a consequence of the year). I loved the
_Stegosaurus_ vs. _Ceratosaurus_ sequence. Something I thought was
interesting was that in the _Herrerasaurus_ sequence, and in the _Tyrannosaurus_
vs. _Triceratops_ sequence (a lovely one including baby _rex_es), they showed
the theropods *sitting down*, a lot like a dog, and a bit less like that photo
of an emu in Horner and Lessem's _Complete T. rex_. Did anybody else
notice that? Would it have been possible?
BTW, I'm very glad we're discussing how good the good dino
documentaries were, not how bad the bad ones were. :-)
Ciao!
-Grant
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