Walking With Dinosaurs (DVD)

...longer a dream. Walking With Dinosaurs makes that distant world as real and natural as images from today's Serengeti. Tracing the 160 million year history of dinosaurs, from their first appearance to their abrupt demise, this series marks a watershed in television imagery. A combination of classic natural history techniques, leading edge computer technology and animatronics, and the latest scientific findings recreate the sights and sounds of an ...
...mystery and excitement of the age when the reptiles roamed our planet" ================= The series was originally broadcast in 1999 and consisted of six 30 minute episodes, covering 160 million years from the genesis of dinosaurs to their eventual extinction and the advent of mammals. This is a two disk set and includes extra "making of" footage taking the running time to almost four hours. As you watch the DVDs you can select a little picture ...

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Walking With Dinosaurs" is the kind of documentary that digital and other high tech methods of animation were made for! Granted, Spielberg used some similar methods to good effect in his dino-films "Jurassic Park" and "Lost World," but "Walking With Dinosaurs" is the current apex of animation technology for exctinct animals, and used for education, too! I sat in awe as I watched these six wonderful segments on the natural history of dinosaurs produced ...
...on marine reptiles -- a group that receives relatively little press, since they're not dinos, and since they don't interact with most peoples' favorites, like T. rex, Allosaurus, or Stegosaurus, etc. Never had I seen recreations of dinosaurs that were as life-like and convincing (except for the occasional animatronic effect) as the ones in this video. Watching these segments about different time periods, places, and groups of dinosaurs I was once ...

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This is an interesting melding of education and entertainment - a documentary about dinosaurs made as if it were a David Attenborough programme. There is inevitably a great deal of speculation which ends up masquerading as fact, but if you take it with a pinch of salt, this still manages to be engrossing and informative at the same time. The programme stands or falls on its animation, and it is often amazingly good. The underwater "footage" is particularly ...
...I found particularly unconvincing, though this may have something to do with their familiarity from Jurassic Park. The few mammals that make an appearance tend to look more like cuddly toys than living creatures, since the computers seem to have struggled to represent fur as opposed to scaly skin. But, for all the nitpicking that can be done, this is still a remarkable achievement, not least for its ability to span a huge age group in its audience. ...

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Making learning about the past a great experience. They have the indepth knowledge to be able to to enlighten older audiences and the captivating action and special effects to give children an amazing impression of nature. The DVD is brililant. The runing time is 230 mins and htis is spread over lots of chapters . In each chapter you can jump to 6 locations during the shoot and if this is good enough the special feature includes extra footage of ...
...final product show. The special effects just amke the whole documentary come to life - you can get more real than that. It was fun and well the only downsie that I could see was the unfortuanly clumsy interface and having to sit thru a 3 min introduction until you can start to see the series. Althgouh clumsy is all I mean - the menu screen is amazing as it is alight with the dinosaurs throughout the show performing games around the camera. ...

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...how people portray them. Walking With Dinosaurs shows how dinosaurs really lived back then. It shows how they would act and defend themselves. It is very educational and filled with interesting facts for kids and adults of all ages. It really expands our minds and our knowledge. We can walk with those dinosaurs as they hunt, lay eggs, bring up their young, how they feed, defensive manuevers and strategies, and much more. This is an adventerous series ...
...It just brings the animals to life. It is wonderfully narrated and very accurate. It really portrays the life of the dinosaurs. It shows the dangers, the triumphs, and the defeats. I really appreciated this. The directors portrayed these well and really captured their movements and features. Do you want to find out great facts about the dinosaurs? Do you want to know what kind of dinosaurs there were? Have you ever wondered what it would be like ...

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This is the BBC's best documentary to date, not only is it highly informative and educational but it also features some of the best computer animations seen around. They have produced this as thought they built a time machine and took a film crew back to the time when the dinosaurs were the kings of the earth. Tim Haines, the producer of the series spent year researching and talking to hundreds of experts to ensure that the material that is presented ...
...was really like with the dinosaurs. The series is broken down into six programs, each dealing with a different era during the dinosaur's time on earth, starting with the introduction to the planet and ending with their extinction after a comet collided with earth. Each one is 30 minutes in length and all are of exactly the same high standards making it the most successful documentary the BBC has ever produced. The ratings the show achieved last year ...

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Walking With Dinosaurs is the DVD of the BBC television series of the same name. The special effects are superb, with puppets being combined with computer graphics making the dinosaurs come to like. The series is reasonably well laid out and presented in a clear, easy to follow style. A lot of the information provided in the series is speculative, the authors cannot possibly know what colour dinosaurs were or what sounds they made. It is their best ...

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The BBC really went to town (or rather the prehistoric forest) with this series, currently being repeated on Saturday evenings - and it has to be said that it's pretty impressive. With the emphasis on the pretty. Each half hour programme is done in the style of a wildlife documentary, following a distinct group of reptiles with a voice-over describing what we see. The special-effect dinosaurs, transplanted into backgrounds filmed today in various ...
...gripe with this programme is that it presents everything as 'fact', whilst in fact it's a little fact combined with a lot of guesswork (in terms of colours and sounds especially). I have no problem with the BBC using artistic license, but some sort of disclaimer might be in order. But highly interesting viewing, nonetheless. ...

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The Beeb has really given mr Spielberg a run for his money here - in fact the computer animation is probably even better than Jurassic Park and the Lost World, especially when it comes to the interaction with real ground or water they are moving on/in. Although I felt the close up use of hand puppets was a bit too obvious at times (though they couldn't do much else)with just slight echoes of Basil Brush, the whole enterprise has worked beautifully ...

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This BBC DVD was one of the first that I bought and I have to say that I have really enjoyed watching this in digital quality, especially as the effects that under pin the program realised by the BBC are shown to the best effect when they are watched in digital quality. The only gripe I really have with this DVD is the fact that the second disc seems to be the documentary and not laden with special extras, in fact the shortage of extras on BBC DVD's ...

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