Re: Last dinosaurs of Transylvania + myth of dinosaurs on Venus + more

[Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>]

For those of you who don't already own a copy, Voyage to the Planet of 
the Prehistoric Women can be seen on YouTube at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIks41gPBeU

VTHPOPW is a 1968 Roger Corman butchering of the Russian Planeta Bura.  
But Corman had previously butchered Planeta Bura in 1965 as Voyage to 
the Prehistoric Planet, sans Mamie Van Doren. The director of VTTPOPW is 
listed as Derek Thomas, a pseudonym for Peter Bogdanovich.

Dan



On 4/3/2015 2:59 PM, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
> > From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of Ben 
> > Creisler
> > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 2:38 PM
> > To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Subject: Last dinosaurs of Transylvania + myth of dinosaurs on Venus + more
> >
> > Myth of dinosaurs on Venus (in Czech)
> >
> > https://dinosaurusblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/dinosauri-na-venusi/
> >
> >
> > Also, this older blog (2013)  in English:
> >
> > http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/05/venutian-dinosaurs.html
> >
> > And of course, don't forget the movie "Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric 
> > Women"--cobbled together from the Soviet science
> > fiction film "Planet of Storms" with prehistoric reptiles living on Venus:
> >
> > Planet of Storms
> >
> > http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/planeta-bur-planet-of-storms/
> >
> > Voyage to the Planet of the Prehistoric Women
> >
> > http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/voyage_to_the_planet_of_prehistoric_women_1968/
> Oddly, there was a modicum of scientific theory behind the idea of "Venus as a swampy 
> planet" concept, and a bit more sophisticated than Sagan's famous: "Observation: Venus is 
> covered with clouds; conclusion: dinosaurs" quip (funny and good for science communication as 
> it was).
>
> Some early 20th Century central European geoscientists like Grabau and Nopcsa 
> were integrating a theory of Earth History environmental change into 
> observation of the other worlds in the Solar System. The speculated that 
> planets oscillated between wetter (hence cloudy) phases and drier (and redder) 
> conditions. In their model Earth of the Carboniferous (with its coal measures) 
> was in a wet, cloudy phase; Earth in the Triassic (with its redbeds) was in a 
> dry one; and contemporary Earth is in between. And similarly, cloudy Venus is 
> reflecting the wet phase, red Mars the dry one, and Earth in between 
> (literally, in this case).
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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>
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>
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