Product Details

• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 4
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 192 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6302137764
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,098 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Join Walter Cronkite as he travels the globe piecing together the clues of a great detective story. Featuring spectacular state-of-the-art animation, this visual encyclopaedia offers insight into these creatures that continue to intrigue us all. From the 1824 discovery of a giant tooth which rocked the foundations of science, to the staggering theories of today, the four volumes of DINOSAUR! tell a story as big as the earth and as great as all time: The First Clue: Tale of a Tooth--Journey back to 1824 for the discovery that rocked the foundations of man belief. The Fossil Rush: Tale of a Bone--Follow the "bone rush" of the 1870s, where fossil hunters risked life and limb, and see computer re-creations of the newly-discovered giants. Birth of a Legend: Tale of an Egg--See how dinosaur eggs allow us a privileged insight into the family life of the most successful race of creatures ever to walk the earth. Giant Birds of the Air: Tale of a Feather--Here is the evidence that birds are the true inheritors of the biggest name in history DINOSAUR!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Arm-chair Dinosaur Hunter., October 9, 2000

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Scott E. Schneidewent "Shyloth" (New Richmond, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dinosaur! [VHS] (VHS Tape)

With Walter Cronkite as the host, the four tapes in the boxed set tell of the history of the findings and developement of the science of Paleontology. The first tape entitled "The First Clue: Tale of a Tooth" tells of the very first documented fossil and the man who studdied it. It goes on to tell of the methods of the early scientist to classify these bones that had no relation to any animal on God's earth. The second tape is titled "The Fossil Rush: Tale of a Bone" and tells of the discovery of fossil bones in the Frontier lands of early America and the rivalry between the leaders of this growing science, it also gets into the effects of dinosaurs on our culture. Tape three called "Birth of a legend: Tale of an Egg" takes us to France where a grade school class and their teacher dig fossil dinosaur eggs to put their town on the map. And back to the US to find more eggs and nesting sites. Tape four "Giant Birds of the Air: Tale of a Feather" Starts off in Germany where archaeopteryx is found in the limestone quarry to wher the dinosaurs have gone and why they disapeared. and the end I will not give away!! Haha!! The interviews with the scientists are very informitive, the onsite footage is not too bad, the amimation of the dinosaurs is not on par with J-Park! and The background music is kinda sad. An entertaining documentary on the history of how we know what we know about Dinosaurs.