Dear DMLers,
Dr. Cinzia Marra and I are going to prepare a poster for the meeting of the Italian Paleontological Society (next June) dedicated to the dinosaur movies. The contribution will be printed in a special issue of the Bulletin of the Italian Paleontological Society.
We grouped the movies according to the following subjects:
1) Dinosaurs survived in isolated places, far away civilization, or at the earth center. 2) Dinosaurs are "hibernated" and are reawaken by catastrophic events caused by men 3)Dinosaurs are recreated by genetics (OK, it is Jurassic Park) 4) dinosaurs are depicted living in their time (with two subgroups: one including movies where dinosaurs and man coexist, the other including movies where dinosaurs do not coexist with man) 5)Evolute dinosaurs live in a parallel world and rule it
of course, a movie can fall in more than one group and possibly not all movies can be grouped in those categories.
We based on the list published on The Complete Dinosaur (1997) for the old stuff and we lack the data for many movies mentioned there.
In particular we need to know
1) place of production (USA, UK, etc.) 2) Director 3) Cast (main actors) (not for animation movies, of course) 4) if colour or B/W (not for those before 1935) 5) Synthethic plot of the story (to know to which group the movie belong)
for the following titles:
THE PREHISTORIC MAN (1908) GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (1912)- animation - BRUTE FORCE (1913) - IN PREHISTORIC DAYS (1913) - ON MOONSHINE MOUNTAIN (1914) THE DINOSAURS AND THE MISSING LINK (1915) - 1-reeler for Thomas Edison Picture (what is a 1-reeler?) BIRTH OF A FLIVVER (1916) - 1-reeler for Thomas Edison Picture MORPHEUS MIKE (1916) - 1-reeler for Thomas Edison Picture PREHISTORIC POULTRY (1917) - 1-reeler for Thomas Edison Picture CURIOUS PETS OF OUR ANCESTORS (1917) - 1-reeler for Thomas Edison Picture R.F.D., 10,000 B.C. (1917) - 1-reeler for Thomas Edison Picture THE GOST OF THE SLUMBER MOUNTAIN (1919) ALONG THE MOONBEAM TRAIL (1920) EVOLUTION (1923) PATHE' REVIEW (1923) - a short - THE THREE AGES (1923) FIG LEAVES (1926) THE SAVAGE (1926) THE LOST WHIRL (1927) KING OF THE KONGO (1929) - serial - THE MYSTERY OF LIFE (1931) THE SON OF KONG (1933) SECRET OF THE LOCH (1934) TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY (1943) UNKNOWN ISLAND (1948) TWO LOST WORLDS (1950) LOST CONTINENT (1951) EL BELLOW DURMIENTE (1953) - (is it the correct title?) ROBOT MONSTER (1953) GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS (1954) JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME (1954) KING DINOSAUR (1955) THE ANIMAL WORLD (1956) THE BEAST OF THE HOLLOW MOUNTAIN (1956) THE LAND UNKNOWN (1957) THE GIANT BEHEMOTH (1959) GORGO (1960) PLANETA BURG (1962) REPTILICUS (1963) LA ISLA DE LOS DINOSAURIOS (1967) VOYAGE TO THE PLANET OF PREHISTORIC WOMEN (1968) WOMEN OF THE PREHISTORIC PLANET (1968) DINOSAURS, THE TERRIBLE LIZARDS (1970) - an educational movie WHEN TIME BEGAN (1976) THE LAST DINOSAUR (1977) THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT (1977) PLANET OF THE DINOSAURS (1977) CAVEMAN (1981) GALAXY OF DINOSAURS (1992) DINOSAUR ISLAND (1993) DOCTOR MORDRID (1993) THE LOST WORLD (1993) RETURN TO THE LOST WORLD (1993) WE'RE BACK! (1993) - animation - SUPER MARIO BROTHERS (1993) PREHYSTERIA (1994) PREHYSTERIA II (1995) CARNOSAUR II (1995) FUTURE WARS (1995) DINOSAUR FROM THE DEEP (1996) DINOSAUR VALLEY GIRLS (1996) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Which place is better than the DML to look for an help? They are a lot of titles, but I am sure that some of you know where to look for those info (most are made in USA) and I hope they will help us, with the due time. Of course, they will be acknowledged in the poster and in the paper. You can contact me off list.
Thank you
Fabio Dalla Vecchia and Cinzia Marra