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The Animal World - 1956
Written, Produced, and Directed by Irwin Allen
Stop-motion Animation by Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien

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Credits for The Animal World (1956) Directed by Irwin Allen Writing credits: Irwin Allen Produced by Irwin Allen Original music by Paul Sawtell Special Effects Willis H. O'Brien - Design Ray Harryhausen - Animation Marcel Delgado - Model Construction	Cast (in alphabetical order) John Storm .... narrator Theodore von Eltz .... Narrator Dinosaur footage from this film was featured in Trog(1970) Trog listing in IMDB The Animal World is not currently available on Home Video because of copyright problems with some of the stock footage used in the movie. All of the dinosaur footage from The Animal World is included as a Special Supplement to The Black Scorpion which is currently available on DVD (2004)

The following images are stereoscopic 3-D pictures from a View-Master 3 reel set released in 1956. The text below each set of pictures comes directly from the fold-out booklet packed with the View-Master reels. Note how our idea of Brontosaurus (now called Apatosaurus) has changed: at that time, Brontosaurus was believed to have spent most of its time in water in order to hold up its great weight. Now we believe that the animal was quite able to walk around on dry land.

It is generally believed that these models were constructed (using rubber molding) by Marcel Delgado who built the stop-motion dinosaurs and the ape for King Kong. It is well-known that they were actually animated by Ray Harryhausen.

You can "free-view" these pictures in Stereoscopic 3D by following the instructions in Stereoscopic Dinosaurs.
Just switch the directions: in these images, the parallel set is on the right, the "cross-eyed" set is on the left.


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View-Master Reel 920-A
Scene One.
The reptiles, descendants of the amphibians, were the first to conquer the land. From the bottom of the oceans they came, grew into strange creatures, dominated the sea, invaded the land and became kings of the earth.

And, outnumbering all the other reptiles, were the dinosaurs. One of the largest was the Brontosaurus which lived more in the water than on land. Designed by nature in a freakish manner so that she was hardly able to support her massive, 30 ton weight on land, this huge monster spent most of her time wading in the waters of the world. She came up on the land only to seek food or lay eggs.


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Scene Four.
Mortal enemy of the Brontosaurus was the Allosaurus (leaping lizard). This great flesh eater was armed with bristling rows of savage, knife-like teeth. His small, front limbs had strong, sharp claws. Tooth and claw, he could rip and slash great chunks of flesh from his unlucky prey.

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