Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Gaiam, Inc.
• VHS Release Date: September 7, 2001
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005QARV
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,223 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Dinosaur Classic, June 24, 2004

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journey to the Beginning of Time [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After having seen this movie dozens of times on television I can finally add it to my collection. Back in 1960 an attempt was made to make an accurate dinosaur film. One where the animals behaved as paleontologists believed, Journey was that movie.

Four young boys visit the American Museum of Natural History. They visit the dinosaur exhibit (of course) as well as the rest of the museum. In an exhibit of Native Alaskans, a shaman figure seems to be giving the boys the evil eye. The boys then rent a rowboat in central park. Here they row into a mysterious cave that leads to an even more mysterious river. As the boys travel along the river they also travel back through time. The further along the river, the further back in time until they reach the primordial ocean. All through the journey one of the boys keeps a journal of their adventures.

Throughout the movie there are explanations of the dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, ages of the Earth and plenty of other educational information. The film ends with the boys staring out over the ocean and thinking about the volcanos forming continents on the other side and the eventual formation of the Earth. Suddenly the boys find themselves waking up in the museum by the Native Alaskan exhibit under the gaze of the Shaman. What a strange dream. But the journal...

This movie was intended to be entertaining and educational. Paleontologists made sure that the facts stood firm against the teachings of science making this possibly the most accurate science fiction movie of all time. Even though much of what we know about dinosaurs has changed since the movie was made, it still hold its charm.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good memories, May 29, 2006

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Laurence Kitsch "Benjilbum" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journey to the Beginning of Time [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Like most boomer males I saw this one in the early 60s and loved it. Of course it has aged (like we have) and nothing like this is as great when your 50 as when your 10, but it brings back some fond old memories that allow you to escape to a simpler and in many ways a better time than now, if only for an hour or so. For that its well worth owning and watching.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Journey Back to my Youth, April 24, 2010

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M. Lancaster "bigbison" (Milpitas, Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Journey to the Beginning of Time [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I remember so clearly watching this show many times on the "Garfield Goose" show in Chicago in the early 1960's. ALways wondered if I would ever see it again, and like others have mentioned it doesn't have quite the impact seeing it as an adult, but I was amazed by it back then. Thanks for bringing back a piece of my childhood. It was a very well done series for it's time.