July is going to be a very busy month here at Babbletrish Lodge. So this feels like the perfect opportunity to watch a documentary series I'd never seen in it's entirety before. It's true, somehow I hadn’t watched the 1991 A&E "Dinosaur" documentary series until just this month and it is a real treasure. It's another fantastic example of what a dinosaur documentary looked like before "Jurassic Park" and "Walking With Dinosaurs".
Look. I know I say "They don't make 'em like this anymore" an awful lot, but they REALLY do not make them like this anymore. We are never going to get a pure gold nugget of a moment like this ever again:
@babbletrish I haven’t watched the 1991 A&E “Dinosaur!” series until today and so far it is a treasure. ##dinosaur ##documentary ##Weird90s ##moodwhiplash ##SingingKids
♬ original sound - BabbleTrish
Turn the volume up. You could guess what kind of music scores this scene and you’d be wrong. I guarantee. (You also might just hear me chuckle.)
Part One, "Tale of a Tooth", is about the early days of dinosaur paleontology. There's period costumes, more strange music choices, wonderful puppet dinosaurs, and Dr. Bob Bakker pulls a wooden sword on Walter Cronkite. And there are vintage commercials, most of which I'd completely forgotten about. Next week, the Bone Wars!
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Art of the Day! Cornell Birdfeeder sketches
