Likewise, here in Poland the series aired probably a little later, probably mid 90's. I still remember how impatiently I had awaited each new episode. Fond memories.
I had these documentaries on bootleg vhs that my mom recorded because I was a huge dinosaur kid. All 4 parts are on RU-vid, and I watch them occasionally, they never fail to fill me with nostalgia
From a scientific point of view, this documentary has obvious outdated information. But from an art and animation POV, it looks superb. Rarely do we see realistic dinosaurs made using traditional animation. Many others and I like to see more of this. This is like peak traditional animation for dinosaurs, while Prehistoric Planet is peak 3D CGI. Edit: Did I miss something here? What's with a sudden influx of more people replying in the comment section?
Oye güey The current reconstructions of dinosaurs are horrific and without scientific foundation and have been criticized by paleontologists themselves 🤮
for the time it was made, its actually not bad scientifically, but the animation is spectacular, better than most shown on tv today. dude, the action sequences, they were cooking.
@@gojizard704rugir n’à rien avoir avec le fait qu’ont soit un animal ou pas de plus rexy ne fait que rugir un peu ce nourris d’humains puis partir car elle malheureusement mal nourrir c’est pour sa qu'elle attaques tous se qu'elle peut manger m’importe te qu'elle prédateurs de sa taille ferais la même chose si il était mal nourrir donc arrête de dire que rexy est un monstre
@@laseriedeladilophosaure9246 I used a translator and I'm not saying rexy is a monster. I love Jurassic Park but the fact that most people thought of dinosaurs as blood thirsty roaring monsters was mostly their cloudy vision Jurassic park. I never thought this. I always knew they were animals caught in a bad situation. (Cept the raptors...Those were indeed science fiction.)
No, people thought of dinosaurs as monsters long before Jurassic Park. If anything Jurassic Park (and the following Walking with Dinosaurs and so on) helped mainstream the idea of dinosaurs just being animals and not just monsters of a lost era. When Megalosaurus was found it was thought of some biblical monster only existing to clean up rotten flesh.
Speaking to that segment with the allosaurus fighting the stegosaurus, we tend to focus on how deadly the carnivores were and overlook the fact that the reason for all that power and those massive jaws full of teeth was because in many instances the herbivores were even worse.
Watching this again after 30 years really brought back joyful tears. We really need to give the animation team their due credit for their amazing work!
Nice to finally find the source of the animated segments used in “The Magic School Bus Explored in the Age of Dinosaurs” CD-ROM! Loved that game during my childhood! Also see this was also the source of some music tracks from Hoops&DinoMan’s “A Dinosaur Story”
this was the dinosaur renascence in full swing for pop culture, the 90s where the masses started to get they were fast active waarm blooded smart animals and that opossum at the end, cheff kiss
Thanks for getting all of these in one video. Still some of my favorite dinosaur animation of all time, aesthetically it's all amazing but a pretty good amount of it has held up remarkably well scientifically.
The early 90s gave us the Dinosaur Renaissance. I had no idea this series was made a year before the release of Jurassic Park. I've loved these creatures since I was little, most especially T-rex. I know science has given us more accurate depictions of what dinosaurs really look like today, but I am very impressed with how the dinosaurs are brought to life through animation and CGI. These were what I grew up with, and the fact that these guys existed long before humans is astonishing. To this day, dinosaurs are the ultimate legends even when millions of years ago, their rule came to an end.
This 4 part Documentary has been on VHSES for years. This has yet to be released on DVD in America. Plus, I discovered that this isn’t the only Documentary that has the animated segment sequences of the Dinosaurs. If any of you remember that Really Wild Animals episode “Dinos & other Creature Features”, I found the identity of the Documentary those other animated segments & the Dinamation of the Dinosaurs in the Stock Footage came from. It is & was called “Dinosaurs on Earth: Then…& Now”, All along from the National Geographic Society. Like “The Dinosaurs!” From PBS, “Dinosaurs on Earth: Then…& Now” From National Geographic also has yet to be released on DVD in America. Along with 16 other National Geographic Documentaries on Modern & Prehistoric that have yet to be released on DVD in America after all these years. If anyone likes to know the names of the other National Geographic Documentaries, please leave a comment.
@@myotherchannel2469 I'm going to take that "Interesting" word as a yes. Here are the names of the other National Geographic Documentaries that have yet to be released on DVD in America. "As much as one of the PBS Documentaries including one of the NATURE Programs too, for the moment." "Australia's Improbable Animals" "Foxes of the Kalahari" "The Thunder Dragons" "Dinosaurs On Earth: Then...And Now” (The other Documentary I mentioned before that has its very own animated segments of the Dinosaurs like it's 1992 PBS Predecessor, but a little bit different.) "The Last Feast of the Crocodiles" "The Crocodiles of the Orinoco" Including "Croc Chronicles: Orinoco Loco" as a Bonus Program "The Croc Chronicles Series” Seasons 1 through 5 Dinosaur Double Feature "Dino Death Match" & "T.Rex Ultimate Survivor" "T.Rex Autopsy" "Top 10 Largest Beasts" "Earth: The making of our Planet" AKA The History Of Earth or The Story Of Earth Finally "Kangaroo Comeback" Bonus: "Rhythms of Life" (Doubtful) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2lhHBPrCa6U.html "Hidden Congo - The Forest Primeval" AKA "Forest Primeval: Heart of Africa" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jUXyAPiyl1A.html "Serengeti Diary" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-onpGXOeB-EM.html "Prehistoric Predators: Razor Jaws" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4DVcDB7olgE.html & possibly "African Safari"
I'm here a year later cause there was another animated special(?)/documentary that focused on dinosaurs. I can't remember the name for the life of me but it was about two boys just going about their day and wondering what life would be like with dinos still present. One scene that particularly stuck out to me as a kid was they were sitting on a random park bench and one of them imagined a pteranadon flying towards them, causing him to flip the whole bench backward. I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
Well, generally speaking it is outdated, but it still holds up pretty well today, and the hand-drawn animations (as featured here) are wonderful. Recommended for those who want nostalgia and a quality made documentary from a special time when we loved dinosaurs - the Dinosaur Renaissance.
It's kinda cool to imagine how the dinosaurs in these animated segments were seen as radical and scientifically accurate 30 years ago. Now of course they're incredibly outdated. I especially notice how much the artists use shrink wrapping. It's just a reminder to how our own modern view of dinosaurs will probably be seen as outdated in 30 more years. And yet, we can still appreciate the amount of work put into these dinosaur designs.
And to add to your comment, I love how despite all the outdated stuff shown the dinosaurs in the animated segment are still depicted as ANIMALS, not movie monsters. That cannot be overlooked. :)
Thanks for this complication! I know other people have commented similarly but wow, parts of these have aged pretty well. Sure a lot of the dinosaurs are a little shrink wrapped (some more than others) but they’re still depicted as animals just living their lives. Also pretty cool to see that the theropods have lips. It’s also worth mentioning how great these animations are on an artistic level. The atmosphere is very ominous- the synth score really contributes to that as well.
There is also a new documentary on Netflix coming out, after scientists believe that large theropods have lips also somewhat like that of sqaumates, such as komodo dragons.
i still have the vhs on my parents house. i was obsesed with this vhs and beautifull draws. i was a dino kid and drawing them pausing this movie was one of many joys of that era.
Hoy en día, las reconstrucciones no los hacen ver como dinosaurios, sino como monstruos. Y si no fíjate en el Spinosaurus, lleno de imprecisiones. El montaje de este film los hace ver como animales. Los actuales los hacen ver como salidos de un videojuego de monstruos.
OMG ! I watched this documentary (in french, i'm from belgium, it was dubbed) SO_MANY_FREAKING_TIMES when i was a kid. It honestly brings tears to my eyes. Thank you for this upload.
@@joeguevara1145a herd has a "leader" that has to prove it's strength unless it wouldn't have the power to lead anyone that why most of the time only one fights the predator
I had fragments of those animations in my Polish Dinosaurs Virtual Encyclopedia on CD :D And now I discover these came from 1992 mini animation series on PBS :D Good old times
Ohhhh wow I never thought I’d see this again! My grandmother recorded the whole series for me on VHS (my family did not have a VCR) and I would watch it just about every time I went over there. I didn’t even remember what it was called to search for it online!
Anyone else notice that the designs for the dinosaurs are identical to those that could be found in the dinosaur section on the Encyclopedia Britannica disc?
That's because the animations were done by Encyclopaedia Britannica, directed by David Alexovich. One of the animators (I assume), John Griffin, posted a video of his works here on RU-vid: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VugnhKLqgDs.html
It's a very unique look I was very young when I saw these specials on PBS and these designs still stick with me even though I know they aren't very accurate today. For example T-Rex is holding his arms wrong for a theropod. They still look very nice detailed but also stylish.
List of other media that used clips from PBS' The Dinosaurs! (including the Prehistoric Beast and Dinosaur! (1985) stock footages): Microsoft's Dinosaurs Eyewitness - "Dinosaur" (Prehistoric Beast and Dinosaur! stock footages only) Really Wild Animals - "Dinosaurs and Other Creature Features" (Prehistoric Beast and Dinosaur! stock footages only) Bonehead: Detectives of the Paleoworld Public computers for visitors at the Swedish Museum of Natural History
20:49 Man, that's brutal. Seeing a Trex that skinny and finally succumb to starvation. Accurate or not, that's excellent animation conveying an utmost tragedy.
I remember recording this when it aired on PBS in 92 when I was 6. Just barley smart enough to hit record on ye Ole VHS....have no idea what I recorded over. I just know it was totally worth it.
Может графика и относительно старенькая и некоторая информация устарела, но это так классно нарисовано. Захотелось увидеть полноценный анимированный сериал или полнометражку в такой стилистике.
Probably my favorite early 90s dinosaur documentary and I remember watching it on VHS that I got from the library many years ago. Luckily I have a VHS collection of it. I highly recommend it the music on the dinosaurs look very awesome and accurate for their time.
This series was shown on the Discovery Channel in the UK in the early-mid 90s. The UK version was voiced by a British female narrator, though there is no mention of this person on IMDB for this series, no idea why. I always thought that the UK voiceover was the original voice over for the series and that the series dated from the 80s.
The series was screened as "Dinosaur Footprints" here, and the narrator was the late Jill Dando; as you say, there seems to be zero record of the show on IMDB or elsewhere online under that name, and the show is not listed under Dando's credits.
@@davidhowlett7567 So the woman doing the voice over for the UK/British narrated version of this series was Jill Dando? I never knew that, are you sure it's her as it doesn't sound Jill Dando to me, and rather strange she would be doing a voice over for a dinosaur TV series when she would've been busy working for the BBC at the time (probably pre Crimewatch), I think she presented an holiday series, but that was later on I think. If it is her then, like you say, it's strange there's no mention of her under name associated with this series, but I have noticed this with other presenters and TV personalities where they have done other work but there's no mention of it on IMDB, for instance, Chris Packham presented a short children's series on CITV called the Great Dinosaur Trail, but there's no mention of it on his IMDB page. Also I remember a Loch Ness doc in the mid 90s where Mark Halliley narrated it, but there's no mention of this Loch Ness documentary on his IMDB page or even on his own website under the work he's done.
Very sure - I still have it recorded on a deteriorating VHS tape somewhere in my attic, which until I realised the show had a different title in the USA and found recordings on RU-vid was my only means of re-watching it, and she was listed in the credits. When I originally watched and recorded the series, it was shown on Channel 4 (as opposed to Discovery Channel, which I never had access to) and aired immediately after the coverage of the 1994 Tour de France, so it must have been screened twice in the UK. I doubt they'd have dubbed it twice for satellite and terrestrial TV, but you never know.
@@davidhowlett7567 I came across another dinosaur documentary series from an old listing I found from Sept 1991 on ITV in the UK called "Dinosaur!". I initially thought it was this series but it didn't have the "The" in the title so it may've been something else and it ran for about an hour including adverts. The episode mentioned the discovery 100 years ago of a dinosaur found in a German quarry that was found with a fossilised feather.
It's so interesting to watch this in recent times, where we have more information on dinosaurs than ever, and are still discovering more... Though we're still debating if spino could swim or not lmao
i don't think i ever saw this video (series?) when i was a kid, but i remember these clips from some other things--i particularly remember the point-and-click _Magic School Bus_ dinosaur game on PC :)
It was the Jurassic segment of this show that led me to believe that Allosaurus had a nasal horn, along with the lacrimal crests. It was much later that I realized that the theropod I saw in this show was actually Ceratosaurus and not Allosaurus.
