{"id":545,"date":"2008-04-23T13:44:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/brontosaurus\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T05:59:48","slug":"brontosaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/brontosaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Brontosaurus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I came across mention of a 1980 Czechoslavakian film, Brontosaurus<\/strong> (Czechoslavakia-1980; dir. Vera Pl\u00edvov\u00e1-Simkov\u00e1), which I’d never heard of. But while looking for information on it, I instead stumbled upon these clips from an earlier Czechoslavakian dinosaur flick called Cesta do prav\u011bku<\/strong> [aka Journey to the Beginning of Time] (Czechoslavakia-1955; dir. Karel Zeman, Fred Ladd [US version]), for which some seem to have a nostalgic fondness.<\/p>\n

IMDB<\/a> describes the simplistic sounding, and rather static, plot thus:<\/p>\n

Four young boys visit a dinosaur exhibit at the New York city Museum of Natural History. They then row out onto Central Park Lake where they find a secret cave and paddle into a wondrous prehistoric world filled with the very dinosaurs they had just seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A proto-Discovery Channel docu-drama perhaps? At any rate, the animation is rather nice.<\/p>\n

Brontosaurus!<\/strong>
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Mammoth!<\/strong>
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The 1980 Brontosaurus<\/em> film? Nothing as yet.<\/p>\n

By the way, before someone comes on and starts complaining that there’s no such thing as a Brontosaurus, I know that the name has been replaced by “Apatosaurus” in scientific circles, but chose to ignore the fact as the good ol’ Thunder Lizard was known under the Bronto-moniker back when these films were made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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