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Prehistoric Animals (6)

  • 64,000,000 Years Ago
    64,000,000 Years Ago
    Bill Maylone 1981 11 min
    This short animated film for children looks at the last of the great dinosaurs to stalk the central plains of North America. Lifelike models of ornithomimus, edmontosaur, and triceratops recreate the late Cretaceous period, offering a view of how our world may have looked 64 000 000 years ago.
  • Woolly Mammoth
    Woolly Mammoth
    Bill Maylone 1979 1 min
    This very short animated film from the Canada Vignettes series depicts a large animal that lived on the Canadian tundra over 10,000 years ago: the woolly mammoth.
  • Dinosaurs: Piecing It All Together
    Dinosaurs: Piecing It All Together
    Michael McKennirey 1994 47 min
    A film on the work of artists and scientists, how they go about reconstructing a world that has long since vanished; and, how they imagine what dinosaurs really looked like.
  • Extinction of the Dinosaurs
    Extinction of the Dinosaurs
    Paul Bochner 1976 3 min
    This short animation illustrates how a sudden change in climate caused by a stellar explosion resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs that roamed the earth 65 million years ago.
  • Eye Witness No. 60
    Eye Witness No. 60
    1953 10 min
    Tomorrow's Officers: At Le Collège Militaire Royal de St-Jean, young recruits become mentally and physically equipped to assume future military leadership. This Unseen World: Photomicrography and time-lapse sequences reveal some of the strange growth processes under the water and soil surface. Scientists Uncover Prehistoric Alberta: In the Badlands of Alberta, paleontologists dig for the fossilized remains of prehistoric monsters that once roamed this area.
  • How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly
    How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly
    Munro Ferguson 1995 5 min
    The dinosaurs were headed for trouble. They ate nothing but junk food. They never brushed their teeth. They stayed up all night. And though they loved jumping off cliffs, they didn't like the landings much. The early mammals tried to warn them. "Keep that up and you'll all be extinct!" they said. But the dinosaurs just laughed... and over time, they evolved into birds.