Walking With Dinoaurs - Celluloid Dinosaurs - Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette

Credits

Synopsis and Broadcast Dates

Walking With Dinosaurs
Television Documentary
co-production of:
UK - BBC
US- Discovery Channel
Japan - Asahi TV
Germany - Pro-Sieben
France - France 3

Dinosaurs - 17

Allosaurus
Anatotitan
Ankylosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Coelophysis
Diplodocus
Eustreptospondylus
Hypsilophodon
Iguanodon
Leaellynasaura
Muttaburrasaurus
Ornitholestes
Plateosaurus
Stegosaurus
Torosaurus
Tyrannosaurus rex
Utahraptor

Pterosaurs - 6

Anurognathus
Ornithocheirus
Peteinosaurus
Quetzalcoatlus
Rhamphorhynchus
Tapejara

Marine Reptiles - 3

Cryptoclidus
Liopleurodon
Ophthalmosaurus

Other Animals
(Mammals, Amphibians, etc.) - 12

Ammonites
Belemnites
Crabs
Cynodont
Didelphodon
Hybodus shark
Koolasuchus
Placerias
Polacanthus
Postosuchus
Squid
Steropodon (early "monotreme" mammal)

Plants

Cast

Narrator: Kenneth Branagh - UK Version & Australian Version
Narrator: - Avery Brooks - U.S. Version

Interstitial Commentators, US Version
Karen Chin
Jack Horner
Tom Holtz
Jim Kirkland
Dave Martill

Narrator: Monique van de
Ven - Dutch Version
Narrator:- German Version
Narrator: - Belgium Version

Filmmakers
Tim Haines - Series Producer
Director & Producer: Programmes 1,2,5
Producer: Programme 6

Tim Haines qualified from Bangor University with a B.Sc. in Applied Zoology in 1982. He became a scientific journalist, first on newspapers, then for the World Service and Radio 4.
He joined the Nature programme at the BBC TV Natural History Unit, moving to BBC TV Science in 1988. He has worked on many of the major BBC science series, and has produced a number of award-winning Horizons, including the Ice Mummy trilogy.

Jasper James - Producer
Director & Producer: Programmes 3,4 and The Making Of
Director: Programme 6

Jasper James has been working in the BBC Science Department since 1993 when he started as a Director on the BBC 1's topical science programme Tomorrow's World.
He went on to be Producer of the weekly show as well as making several specials. In March '96 he went on to produce 3 episodes of the even more forward looking BBC 1series Future Fantastic - a fantastically futuristic romp through science's next 300 years. In a switch from far future to prehistoric past, he joined Walking with Dinosaurs in September '97, produced and directed two of the episodes and the 50 minute documentary "Walking with Dinosaurs - The Making Of" which accompanied the series.

Production Company:

Other Staff

Special Effects:
Framestore
Softimage-3D

Contributing Experts:

Professor Michael Benton
Ken Carpenter
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Susannah Lydon
Dr David Martill
Dr David Norman
Kent Stevens
Graham Taylor
Dr David Unwin
Dr Martin Whyte
Dr Joanna Wright
Professor Zhang Zhenyu

Walking With Dinosaurs: Stages in image rendering (c)1999 BBC

Programme 1 / Part 1
New Blood - 220 Million Years Ago - Late Triassic

Meet the early dinosaurs and other residents living around a seasonal river. UK 29 minutes, US approx 25 minutes.

Starring: Coelophysis

When dinosaurs first appeared, our planet was still recovering from a mass extinction in which 90% of all plant and animal species died out. Several land reptiles battled to survive and establish themselves.

BBC Description

Programme 2 / Part 2
Time of the Titans- 152 Million Years Ago - Late Jurassic

Find out about the sauropods, the largest land animals of them all. UK 29 minutes, US approx 25 minutes.

Starring: Diplodocus

Size does matter. Though earlier species were generally three to ten feet long (and mostly tail) the Jurassic period saw the birth of the largest and hardiest dinosaurs that ever roamed the earth.

BBC Description

Programme 3 / Part 3
A Cruel Sea- 149 Million Years Ago - Late Jurassic

Discover the secrets of the sea and meet the biggest carnivore ever.UK 29 minutes, US approx 25 minutes.

Starring: Ophthalmosaurus

While huge dinosaurs made their prey tremble with fear on land, large marine reptiles, many of which vaguely resembled modern-day water species such as dolphins and crocodiles, ruled the sea.

BBC Description

Programme 4 / Part 4
Giant of the Skies - 127 MIllion Years Ago - Early Cretaceous

Follow the journey of a majestic pterosaur back to his breeding ground. UK 29 minutes, US approx 25 minutes.

Starring: Ornithocheirus

The largest living creatures ever known to fly were the pterosaurs, whose featherless wings were often longer than those of a small airplane, yet their bones were hollow -- accounting for very low body weight.

BBC Description

Programme 5 / Part 5
Spirits of the Ice Forest - 106 Million Years Ago - Early Cretaceous
Starring: Muttaburrasaurus
Spring is a busy time of year in the polar forests of the far south. UK 29 minutes, US approx 25 minutes.

In a time when thick forests covered Antarctica, the sun would set for two months at a time. Even the strongest creatures had to adapt to survive the harshe elements of fierce polar winters.

BBC Description

Programme 6 / Part 6
Death of a Dynasty- 65 Million Years Ago - Late Cretceous

Tyrannosaurus is king of the dinosaurs but the end is nigh....UK 29 minutes, US approx 25 minutes.

Starring: Tyrannosaurus rex

Dinosaurs seem as vigorous as ever, but there are hidden pressures in the environment -- and perhaps a giant meteor on the way -- which ultimately cause the demise of these magnificent creatures.

BBC Description

The Making of Walking With Dinosaurs - BBC Description
UK 50 minutes

Find otu how the BBC brought dinosaurs back to life using the latest scientific findings and state-of-the-art digital effects! The secrets of Walking With Dinosaurs: reavealing how the produciton team and paleontology experts recreated a prehistoric world that fgeels completely real.

See animatronic models filmed in the prehistoric natural landscape of Chile, Tasmania, and New Caledonia.

Discover how animated computer dinosaurs were created by ten animators over the course of 18 months.

Follow the sound engineers who called the natural world for a year, collecting sounds to replicate the ancient calls of the dinosaurs.

Lean how all these elements were combined to recreate aprehistoric environment and bring the dinosaurs back to life.

Broadcast Dates

Australia

Premiered October 1999

Belgium

France

France 3
"Sur la Terre des Dinosaures"
Premiere February 29, 2000

Germany

Japan

Netherlands

United Kingdom

BBC
Premiere October 1999
The BBC version is available on DVD and Video with approximately 20 minutes of additional material. Order by clicking here.

United States

Discovery Channel - United States
Premiere April 16, 2000 7-10PM EST/PST
The show will be re-broadcast in separate segments on Discovery for Kids over the next several months
The American version is slightly shorter than the BBC version. It has new main titles and contains new interviews with several noted paleontologists that are not in the original version.

Locations Utilized:

The Bahamas
Chile
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Tazmania
more...

Resources:

Links

The Canadian Walking With Dinosaurs Site

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