64,000,000 Years Ago

This short animated film for children looks at the last of the great dinosaurs to stalk the central plains of North America. Lifelike models of ornithomimus, edmontosaur, and triceratops recreate the late Cretaceous period, offering a view of how our world may have looked 64 000 000 years ago.
For ages 5 - 8
Directed by Bill Maylone - 1981 | 11 min
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[@Don-ds3dy]

the old version of a rex was like a drunken biker who goes around town picking fights with everyone

[@TyranntX]

And the new t-rex is a rage driven dragon that kills everything in its path

[@trilobite7308]

nah the new rex is an actual animal predator with an identity crisis of weather it wants to have scales or feathers

[@ladylycanvamp]

The new Trex was more like a blood thirsty chicken

[@supercanadaeh9483]

I dunno why, but I always imagined our current understanding of rexes to be like a bear, minus the omnivorous tendencies.

[@Dapper-Lil-dude]

The Lost World (1925) it's the movie it was in

[@XenoTeeth3]

I used to watch this stopmotion documentary all the time as a kid . Fun times ^^

[@dwm_player]

I like the vintage dinosaurs documentaries than the nowadays documentary i know its inacurate but it gives me nastalgia thats why i like it

[@Mac14329]

More outdated than inaccurate.

[@happylilfrog]

SAME!!😂😊

[@jaygon8656]

At least the T-rex isn't dragging its tail. Most movies still did that at the time

[@spicymemes2489]

T rex, along with the majority of dinosaurs, dragged their tails the same way a modern reptile would today.

[@ttttt5717]

Stephen Reill proof? Give me one modern fossil reconstruction with a Rex dragging its tail. Dinosaurs were related to birds, not lizards

[@stegosaurus5461]

+Stephen Reill Dinosaurs didn't drag their tails. Their tail vertebrae showed they were held rigid, plus dinosaur trackways don't show tail dragging. Stop perpetrating old, outdated myths.

[@spicymemes2489]

Last time I checked, Dinosaurs are reptiles (the word dinosaur literally translates to "terrible lizards") and as far as all possible evidence suggests, every reptile on earth drags its tail when it walks. If the dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, they'd have no balance when walking and would've fell overhead all the time. The tail dragging was to balance their weight and they could not have been held "rigid" ask any paleontologist.

[@ttttt5717]

Stephen Reill ask any paleontologist if there birds or reptiles. Also when they were first discovered People thought they were lizards that’s why there named that. Now we know they’re not.

[@brianlevine871]

I love how the Ankylosaurus was like "Yeah, whatever." during the first half of the film.

[@crimsondynamo615]

Would you mess with something that not only has the strongest armor built into its body but also the strongest bone exploding club as a natural weapon

[@thundercat123studios]

The stop motion photography is amazing. Reminds me of Ray Harryhausen's animations Oh yeah also Willis O'Brien

[@MartinWolgen]

The director, Bill Maylone, was actually inspired by Harryhausen. He wrote a forward to a book on Harryhausen's dinosaur projects where he talks about this short and how he was influenced by seeing Harryhausen's work as a kid.

[@RandomRexy]

WAIT ITS STOP MOTION?! WHAT NO WAY!!!!!!

[@pinkfr0g255]

64 000 000 Years Ago 0:20 Kills 1 1:03 Kills 2 3 4 5 7:39 Kills 6 7:58 Kills 7 9:02 9:16 Kills 8 10:00 Total Kills 8 10:24

[@saintjohn6295]

Obviously set during The Plasticine Period...

[@syedjeffri5767]

Cretaceous Period.

[@deejay5627]

@@syedjeffri5767 you didn't get the joke

[@paulkuchnicki6404]

Huh! Good one! LOL

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

@@syedjeffri5767 r/Wooosh

[@leonettaharris]

@@syedjeffri5767 its a joke

[@thecosmicaesthetic]

I had this on VHS as a kid. It freaked me out but I loved it. I looked this up on a whim. Cant believe the quality 👏👏👏

[@sexcorpio6976]

That stop-motion documentaries are way better than nowadays "super digital high tech" ones

[@Mac14329]

Except no one calls them "super digital high tech". And not "way" better.

[@sexcorpio6976]

@@Mac14329 I didn't even think about Who calls that

[@fyfyi6053]

lol You honestly think this is better

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

They're both good.

[@claymationgloves3662]

"super digital high tech"? You coulda just called it "vfx" or "cgi" my guy that just sounds awkward. I'm also gonna have to go ahead and honestly say, No. It's very creative and they are all classics that we can appreciate. but "better"? Yeah No. obviously its older so the information is outdated. if you mean as a documentary though like scenery and music I still say no. Go watch prehistoric planet. It managed well enough.

[@henryscott370]

While it is outdated, this is amazing nonetheless.

[@Mac14329]

This I haven't seen in years! This is wonderful!

[@johanaugust8077]

used to rent this on vhs from the local library as a kid

[@TonynatorT]

I first saw this film back in 2004. I loved it but it scared the crap out of me for some reason. Especially the Tyrannosaurus scenes.

[@ZMAN71989]

I had this on VHS, which was definitely censored because I don't remember the trike stabbing the egg snatcher or the Rex killing the herbivore on screen. Nice to see it again in it's full glory.

[@Mac14329]

You too?

[@pinkfr0g255]

64 000 000 years ago carnage count 0:20 Kills 1 1:03 Kills 2 3 4 5 7:39 Kills 6 7:58 Kills 7 9:02 9:16 Kills 8 10:00 Total Kills 8 10:24

[@blaize1745]

7:58 That was so brutal

[@tannerbruning868]

It is incredibly scientifically inaccurate but damn I love stop motion, honestly the charm makes I hard for me to care

[@avdgaming3550]

This is from the 80 what do you you want acuarate dinos?

[@maxker8997]

AVD Gaming it’s not from the 80s it wouldn’t look this good, it would look grainy.

[@mosquitomilk9877]

KrustyRedd ok

[@briankelly9347]

KrustyRedd 1981

[@StormDatIsApproaching]

MAXKER 1981. It's called hd restoration. Have you not heard of Blu-ray or 4k dvd? How do you think those are made

[@kissarmy305]

Awesome, been looking for this little gem for years now. I used to watch it all the time when i was just a kid. Seeing this brings back memories and feelings of nostalgia^^.

[@adriannicholasdecena4992]

What year is this posted?

[@Fenrek]

4:57 when you at your girls house and her dad walks in.

[@JONNOG88]

Yeah, this was definitely. The "inspiration" for Walking With Dinosaurs.. 😃 Music score is pretty boss, too

[@MartinWolgen]

Does anyone else remember there being a documentary that came after this short on the VHS tape? I had this as a kid, after the animated part there's a ~40 minute segment that's just still paintings with narration and sound effects.

[@kaderiddell8826]

Did you ever find the documentary? I'm looking as well

[@ducky_dawn4741]

This was almost Dino Porn. *let that sink in*

[@TechCarnivore1]

This was Dino porn until T-Rex cock blocked it.

[@emperortheperson]

Trex is playing cencoser simulator

[@smuglytherat]

Cockblockasaurus

[@somerandomstupidrat8870]

4:30

[@somerandomstupidrat8870]

And that kids, is how I met your mother- Edmontosaurus

[@n1ckjitsu]

The narrator sepped for a smoke breack during most of the action huh

[@102allenwalker]

Omg ! I grow up watching this my grandmother would put this tap in the VHS and I would watch it over and over and over agin 💕 ❤

[@keybladegames_real]

9:19 I like how he's just like "holy crap....I got something! I finally caught something!!!"

[@aydantrenchard4191]

4:51-4:55 they were mating and then the t-Rex ruins it!

[@harrymcnicholas9468]

Happens all the time when hubby shows up.

[@kiwi6587]

I feel like u wanted to watch the dino porn ;-;

[@CrustyMcButternuts]

Cockblockasaurus

[@leannestokes1330]

More like stops PG 17 from happening

[@menorahdarkness4877]

Fantastic quality!

[@zhuangsaur227]

Interesting the Rexy chose to backdown and the Trike actually didn't gore the Rexy

[@brandonivy8523]

09:02 first time I've seen this part, my Dinosaurs of the Jurassic tape cuts to 09:27 Thanks for uploading this

[@mrkylesfilms1]

Brandon Ivy Wait, _that's_ the name of the tape?! I've been puzzling over the name for over a decade!

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

I had that tape too as a child. I too was wondering about when The REX was about to Strike at the Edmontosaurus. But there was something else that wasn't seen besides The Tyrannosaurus REX having it's last meal. 7:59 to 8:16 That scene with The Mother Triceratops with the Ornithomimus was also cut too. This is probably on a DVD on some website somewhere. All 11 & a Half Minutes of it completely.

[@PineappleProducer]

yup, same here. kinda funny how they trimmed out the violent parts but the edmontasauruses mounting each other was perfectly acceptable.

[@ballpython3310]

Really, that was in my tape... i was in Illinois at the time do you think it's cause there were Canadian versions?

[@malharmony]

Yeah, it's outdated and a lot of the info is now known to be incorrect, but c'mon...it was made 37 years ago. We've learned a lot since then, and those who didn't grow up in the 80's shouldn't be hating. This is what we thought dinos were back then, and even this was a leap from the sluggish upright cold blooded tail dragging dinos from the 70's. A lot has changed since 1981. I like how sexy rexy gets his own soundtrack everytime he makes an appearance. So dramatic. Love it!!!

[@christopherjordan6235]

I couldn't agree more

[@LowResMovies]

Wow, I can't help but marvel at the stop motion, it is truly amazing.

[@Glory.]

3:13 adorable Edmontosaurus

[@user-xf6pz8fr8v]

I wouldn’t say adorable…

[@leannestokes1330]

The Tyrannosaur's theme cracks me up 2:09 *deep beeda beep dolululuu. beep beepdabeep* 8:56 *DOLULU DOLULULU DOLULULU.* 9:30 *ding dong ding dong ding dong. BEEPBADABEEP BADABEEP.*

[@leannestokes1330]

Creatures shown: 1:05 Alphadon 1:21 Ornithomimus 2:05 Tyrannosaurus 2:14 Ankylosaurus 3:05 Edmontosaurus 5:26 Baby Alphadon 6:06 Triceratops 6:49 Eggs

[@ianlewis5385]

I never knew the National Film Board of Canada released an animated dinosaur documentary! Cool!

[@giovanepereirafreitas1508]

Imagine redoing this on "saurian "

[@themaskknight7590]

we need saurian's map and models in sfm so this can happen

[@supermariologanfan6546]

Giovane Pereira Freitas Or The Isle Gallimimus=Ornithomimus Acrocanthosaurus=Tyrannosaurus Rex Stegosaurus=Ankylosaurus Shantungosaurus=Edmontosaurus Diabloceratops=Triceratops

[@alphamaledeathclaw1038]

Super Mario Logan Fan Ew,no Saurian is more accurate.

[@sissyfarabi9819]

Tyrannosaurus rex says the guy who’s profile pic is not accurate at all

[@MamaLuvDuv]

@@sissyfarabi9819 but saurian is more accurate than the isle....

[@ironcarnage1019]

The effort put into this is amazing

[@eoinspud804]

Who else thought the triceratops was gonna poop

[@simmysommy]

This must have taken very long to make and record, can someone upscale it to 60/FPS please?

[@Gornonatory]

It won't look good. That's why films are 24/25 fps and should stay that way.

[@Jaggerbush]

I wish this were two hours long!

[@felix25ize]

I like the suddendly falling down tyrannosaur: " Gasp! I am becoming extinct ! Raarghhh! "

[@NikhchansGaming]

2:28 Rexy: Imma get that booty! Anky: You wish! Rexy: I'll show you! BAM! Rexy: Auuuuuuuu u! Anky: Sorryyy... Rexy: All right!

[@FrancisCastiglione]

But realistically, the Ankylosaurus' club tail was WAYY larger than it was shown in this film, and could also break any bone on the T-Rex's body with just one slow hit

[@CoolingFanTechReview]

The sounds really fit to the dinosaurs in here

[@heitorsantos7046]

I love vintage documentaries

[@MiKeMiDNiTe-77]

This is great I love old school stop motion Dinosaurs 🐊

[@PeaLord125]

5:33 aaww they so cute

[@ilonaramazanova6940]

That triceratops that laid the egggs is a good mother

[@kingfoofybottom1299]

carnivores: rraaaaaa herbivores: buuuuuuuuuuurp carnivores: rAraAAAAAAAAA hERbivoreS:BUUUUUUUUUUURRRRP mammals: HEEEEEEEEEEEEEElP

[@leannestokes1330]

Raaa, Burrrrp. RAAAAAARGH BURRRRRRPUH SUUEEAAAKKKK

[@crimsondynamo615]

7:21 triceratops mind: *HOLY SHIT! OH FUCK!*

[@yauskszilla9900]

More like: I must protect myself and my eggs, This Tyrannosaurus is gonna kill me If I don’t.

[@leannestokes1330]

7:59 AHHH SH- AAARK! AAARK! AAARK! AAARK!

[@dylangeltzeiler946]

New comment: (6 1/2 years later) Fun Fact: 5:06 It took 10, 20 maybe 30 years of scientific update to realize that T.Rexes could swim if they wanted to. Having hollow air filled bones & powered hind limbs makes Tyrannosaurs l like T.Rex very effective swimmers.

[@kevin-n-darlenef301]

Nice work !!

[@Hanibaltherogue]

Absolutely greatly done :-)

[@fabianfigueroa3127]

"ornithomeemus"

[@ynotcougar]

Well somebody was a Rankin/Bass Fan, I was waiting for Bumble to shimmy down a cliff.

[@YellowoboeThe]

Man this takes me back.

[@dreamguardian8320]

Yes, back when stop motion (and 2D animation) was still popular, and when Dinosaurs were believed to be real giant reptiles, and not as ugly bird like mutants with feathers.

[@deucemoose7852]

t-rex is a cockblocking knob head!

[@LuCa8_]

Noah Siffin but he did get a kill

[@supermariologanfan6546]

Luke 777 Which is the Edmontosaur (Edmontosaurus)

[@LuCa8_]

Pokemonperfect Choi the duck billed dinosaur

[@LuCa8_]

That ran away into the water

[@supermariologanfan6546]

Luke 777 And probably Edmontosaurus can swim.

[@histman3133]

"We don't know what led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. All we know is that they died out." This was made in 1981? It wasn't until 1980 that the famous Alvarez paper (Alvarez, 1980) first theorized that the dinosaurs had died out due to an asteroid impact. When they looked at the rock layers around 66 million years old in Denmark, New Zealand, and Italy, they realized that something was different about the clay and rocks.

[@octopancake_YT]

2:30 *gentle tap* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@MattGarZero]

This video was like a "too real" acid trip.

[@CyberDiver91]

I love how the Tyrannosaurus FINALLY gets a kill, then immediately drops dead. The hell was in that Edmontosaurus?

[@TheGamingBurger734]

AMAZING yet brutal film 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@tylert714]

This is awesome!

[@richardenglish2195]

Delightful film!

[@Titan52berg]

Pretty good stop-motion effects! Harryhausen would have loved this!

[@DigitalApex]

I love me some good old fashioned retrosaurs.

[@IreneRoxanne666]

The mama rat and it's babies are really coot! And even though it's innacurate, this documentary was made years ago, when the stuff in the video were concidered accurate. At least bipedal dinos don't drag their tales. Can't say the same about Triceratops and Ankylosaurus tho. Also, the reasone why T-Rex came right when the 2 Edmontosauruses started mating is because T-Rex did not want kids to see that scene XD

[@leannestokes1330]

Wow, the T Rex was like: DON'T LET UR KIDS WATCH IR!

[@michaelbarlow9619]

This is giving me rite of spring vibes

[@henry-sarahmike-show8402]

I loved the part with the ankylosaurus.It shows how powerful the ankylosaurus is.ankylosaurus Is my favorite dinosaur ever.

[@bawsahkoopa8446]

Man i love it!

[@DredgeX97]

At 4:51, the look on the duckbill's face says it all, "Aww, shiiii, things bout ta get real".

[@guilmon182]

*GASP* Holy shit! I remember watching this over and over as a little kid! It had another dinosaur program on the same tape, but I can't remember what it was called.

[@RetailRipper]

I had (still have)this on vhs as a kid. 1994 or so. No idea where I got it.

[@roeleb6399]

6:10 we have a winner!

[@gingerequestrian7489]

So fascinating

[@matthewconway1494]

I remember watching this when I was a kid!

[@kazumajay]

Just love stop motion

[@TheSpinoLord]

QUE CHEVERE EL VIDEO ME GUSTO MUCHISIMO

[@Guyverman01]

I first saw this on TV when I was 10!

[@jashimahmed9197]

so cool i liked this much amaizing

[@Len124]

1:36 Dragonfly like: "AHHHHH! Help! For the love of god, HELP! It hurts so bad! Help! Just be done with it, you sick bastard!! MOMMA! MAAA! MOMMA! I'm so cold Maaa. I'm... I'm... the paaiiiin..." And 7:27 That cheeky little fuck!

[@hungfao]

Superior stop motion work. It's nice to see this these days considering I wanted to do this for a living at one point and got quite good at it....but then CGI dashed my dreams on the rocky shores of reality.

[@Mac14329]

Don't let it. You can still do it if you want to.

[@hungfao]

@@Mac14329 Oh. I kinda still do. I animated my wife's body pillow so that it crawled like an inch worm across the bedroom floor. When she saw it she said, 'Wow! You really are good at that'.

[@Mac14329]

@@hungfao Okay?..

[@bananatorpedo275]

Edmontosaurus:BURRP other edmontosaurus:BUUUUUUURP

[@leannestokes1330]

*t rex shows up, WATCH YO MANNERS.*

Great!

[@trexnations5267]

This is really noice animation

[@matthewhunter2092]

AWESOME

[@greenday_listener]

THIS IS GOOD

[@ashesfrombones]

i... just can't look away

[@V9incent]

Cock-blocked by a T-Rex... BADASS :)

[@RandomRexy]

3d animation or stop motion?

[@Dapper-Lil-dude]

Stop Motion

[@RandomRexy]

@@Dapper-Lil-dude oh

[@hypn0298]

"64 MYA" These things were already extinct for 2 million years by then.

[@maxker8997]

HypnoGaming it was actually 66 MYA.

[@MrLandry2010]

Yep the asteroid hit the Gulf of Mexico 66 million years ago all non avian dinosaurs didn’t make it that’s why we humans are here now.

[@nathanross3515]

Fred Landry I have a question because I don’t know, but how do we know exactly when the meteor hit?

[@MrLandry2010]

Radiometric dating of the fossils measures the radioactive decay and you get a measurement of the age of fossils

[@voicubogdan4339]

@@nathanross3515 that's why the internet îs for, why don't You use it?

[@tubaraolendariovegetariano7812]

Issa istoria e muinto linda

[@lisagallagher297]

i really love dinosaurs :D

[@cosmobane6995]

Guys, the 60 million years description isn't wrong. This is set in an isolated island where a special group of reptile that're unrelated to the archosaur evolved dinosaurian traits.

[@MrSucho-sy8nf]

When was this made

[@kylevansteelandt3971]

OMG! That was amazing! Awesome stop motion effects Education about prehistoric life Good dialogue (dinoes are not reptiles, narration almost has no energy) Classical music It's also funny 4 out of 5

[@anartistthatlovesart2792]

Kyle Vansteelandt *Thats a mating dance lmao* 😂👌👌

[@supermariologanfan6546]

Kyle Vansteelandt Dinosaurs like Maiasaura probably did this thing. No recent evidence is find on Hadrosaurs like Edmontosaurus, Parasaurolophus or Maiasaura

[@thecringeking873]

Right when I finished reading the comment the ortomimus got impaled and after that scene the only thing that was going through my head is “it’s also funny”

[@spinosaurusstriker]

@@aidenthesnork3055 well, they arent reptiles tough.

[@j2fly1]

Ray harryhausen has made this nfb short!

[@ridwanhusainishraq]

Animaticine period

[@alexevon6794]

Love stop motion but found it funny when the t.rex stopped at the water. Because of the new prehistoric planet documentary

[@MrVador22]

Trop bien

[@rubinbubin]

Cool!!!! ; )

[@IvanPlechkov]

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