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Dinosaur (Movie)
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Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by Winsor McCay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to life. Although not the first animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The appearance of a true character distinguished it from earlier animated "trick films", such as those of Blackton and Cohl, and makes it the predecessor to later popular cartoons such as those by Walt Disney. The film was ... the first to be created using keyframe animation.
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At the time Dinosaur's DVDs were released, Collector's Editions went straight to the menu without playing the Sneak Peeks automatically. (This was the day when automatic previews were still new and unusual on DVDs.) Still, a Sneak Peeks menu on Disc 1 offers promos for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's California Adventure, Atlantis, Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, 102 Dalmatians, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, and the Atlantis prequel video game. There's no option to "Play All", so if you're interested in all of these, you'll have to select them one at a time.
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Like other modern films such as The Day After Tomorrow or Jurassic Park, Dinosaur contains a number of inaccuracies concerning science and biology, most of which occur due to either production restrictions or for the sake of entertainment. The film featured a wide variety of prehistoric animals from various time periods and geographic region living alongside one another (the film is set in North America during an unspecified time period). For example, the film includes Longisquama from the Triassic of central Asia, and Velociraptor, Talarurus, and Oviraptor from the mid-Cretaceous of Mongolia. Several animals featured in the film hail from the early Cretaceous, such as the North American/European Iguanodon and the Australian Koolasuchus, or from the late Jurassic, like the brachiosaur. Many featured dinosaurs existed only at the very end of the Cretaceous in North America, such as the Pachyrhinosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Ichthyornis and Pteranodon. The Carnotaurus ... lived in that period, but in South America (in the context of the film, characters note that the latter "have never gone this far north before").
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The origins of Disney’s Dinosaur actually date all the way back to 1988, when the studio’s live-action division acquired a screenplay called "Dinosaur" by Walon Green. At that time, Paul Verhoeven and Phil Tippett were interested in making the film, but it never got off the ground. Then in late 1994, Walt Disney Feature Animation adopted Dinosaur and began shooting various tests, placing CG characters in miniature model backdrops before deciding to take the unprecedented route of combining live-action scenery with computer-generated character animation.
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Though kids will have a higher threshold for cliché than most adults, Dinosaur is simply not a film that even children will remember. It is visually spectacular, and there may be some memories to be gleaned from the many set pieces, but even by Disney standards, this is not a film which will give them something more to take home other than dull sermonising. Some may ascribe this level of blandness to Disney in general, but this is simply not fair. They may not have the courage to really follow through with their more interesting stories, but they exel in the moment and frequently provide both mental stimulation and entertainment. Dinosaur is one of the weakest films they have made in the past decade in spite of its technical excellence. One hopes that the renaissance in animation which began with The Little Mermaid hasn't simply lost the run of itself as technicians push the boundaries of the possible further and further away from any sense of value or worth.
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