Re: Walking with dinosaurs Re: On the BBC, yeah, yeah, yeah (was Re: Bolide sites?)

["Paleo Mont" <paleo_mont@excite.com>]

Its not suppose to be... but ruins the surprise when it comes out this
fall.


On Sat, 03 Jul 1999 09:52:35 -0400, Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette wrote:

> For some reason, this show is being made to seem like some sort of guilty
> secret...
> It is nothing of the kind.
> I'm holding in my hand a full color flyer for it:
> There will be 6   30 minute episodes
> and
> a special 50 minute episode entitled The Making of Walking with
Dinosaurs.
> 
> The producer is Tim Haines. It is a co-production of BBC/Discovery/TV
Asahi in
> association with ProSieben and France3.
> 
> Haines made a film previously called Ice Mummies (which I believe is about
the
> primitive peoples preserved in ice, but I could be wrong).
> 
> The background film was taken at a number of locations around the world
(New
> Zealand, Chile, etc.) and the dinosaurs will be done with "state of the
art"
> CGI, probably by a particular japanese company that specializes in this
sort of
> thing. nearly 40 books have been contracted to go along with the series,
> although at the moment, Mr. Haines is taking sole credit for all of them.
> 
> It's clear from the photos that there are also models of some sort
involved.
> 
> You can all the BBC on the phone yourself and verify this (I'm STILL not
sure
> why everyone is being so namby pamby about this) at:
> +44 181 576 3636
> 
> e-mail international.distribution.worldwide@bbc.co.uk.
> 
> Paleo Mont wrote:
> 
> > "Sometime in the not-too-distant future, the BBC will be airing
"Walking
> > with Dinosaurs", a documentary series on dinosaur evolution with a
different
> > emphasis than your typical 'Bakker out in the field'-type.  It is
supposed
> > to eventually come to the U.S., although I'm not certain who is going
to
> > distribute it and how."
> >
> > Hmmm....what should I tell.... ok... probally on Discovery, on the
Paleo
> > World...and um...It wont be just Bakker.  Ok...Thats all I am going to
say.
> > Going to go and play with my new computer, and see about that JVP
alligator
> > CD.  See ya later.
> >
> > -
> > Mr. K.Wicks
> > Dickinson State University -ND
> > Dept of Natural Sciences- Biology
> 
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