Phil Tippett's Prehistoric Beast

[@bobbyrebholz2183]

I remember seeing this on TV in '85. I was only 5 but obsessed with dinosaurs. I ran to the television when my mom said it was on. I'm 40 now and tonight was the first time in 35 years I sat and watched this again. Instant chills.

[@franciscoivanoff2821]

Wounderful sensation. 👍

[@DJ239]

I just watched Robocop for the first time and the guy that reviewed it turned me over to this. Such cool stuff. This reminds me of Sinbad a lot.

[@djnickbennett]

Me too.

[@sebasural2]

me too

[@radk88]

This, ladies and gentlemen, is art.

[@stevenbrousseau7538]

Well said

[@canonbehenna612]

Yeah no over monstering the animals and no over humanizing them, it what most documentaries or short films should be more like

[@ansibarius4633]

@@canonbehenna612 Maybe not over-, but I feel there is still some humanizing going on with the 'bad guy with evil grin'-vs-'desperate good guy bravely standing his ground' take. Devices like these are probably almost unavoidable if you want to keep the general public's attention. Illustrated books did the same, it was almost formulaic. I think one notable exception was 'The Rise of Life' by John Reader and John Gurche, from 1986, which had very realistically looking prehistoric animals in dynamic scenes with their faces almost totally blank, or at least convincingly animal-like, without any hint of humanoid facial expressions. An older example would be the National Geographic Books for Young Explorers' 'Dinosaurs' from 1972 with its stoic open-mouthed T. rex that kept the same emotionless 'grin' in all situations, even when it met its fate on the last page of the story. This clip reminds me of the artwork featured in both these books, which I think was exceptionally good for its time.

[@arandomperson6627]

I love how a single stick breaking awakens the inner war horn inside the centrosaurus.

[@godzilla964]

Some modern animals do that. If a white tailed deer hears a twig break, they jump around and scatter because they think that either a bear, coyote, or a human is nearby.

[@kR-qj7rw]

realistically cratopsids would be really angry dangerous hervivores like rhinos and elephants but worse you need to be though when living next to tyrannosaurids

[@yaburu]

@TheGreenEyedMonsterTruck Really? When did that change happen? I grew up calling them Monoclonius

[@redpillfreedom6692]

@@yaburu Monoclonius is now, at best, considered to be a "dubious" species as all recovered specimens are too incomplete or immature. It's now believed they were juvenile Centrosaurs, much like how Nanotyrannus is now realized to have been T-Rex in the adolescent stage.

[@franciscoivanoff2821]

I think it was a Monoclonius ( posibly Centrosaurus sinonim ).

[@glarnboudin4462]

Holy shit, I remember watching this on the Eyewitness VHS tape for dinosaurs when I was a little kid. THIS was my Jurassic Park growing up, my first major experience with seeing dinosaurs in motion. Thank you Mr. Tippet, for making my childhood.

[@godislord3377]

Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that preceedeth out of thy mouth

[@glarnboudin4462]

@@godislord3377 ?

[@godislord3377]

The cursing

[@paleoph6168]

@@godislord3377 how futile

[@godislord3377]

@@paleoph6168 I felt led to let people know the holy ghost

[@HobGungan]

That final lunge before the title has lived rent free in my head for over 35 years. Such a blast from the past to finally see it again.

[@maxauburn]

The stop motion photography, the lighting, the music- all perfect!

[@maddocmonkey]

indeed

[@cezar211091]

The lighting sells it

[@redpillfreedom6692]

The technique is actually go-motion; largely the same effect except with a motion blur to make the movements more fluid and less jerky.

[@tellmeaboutyourgame314]

Can't get much better than Phil Tippet.

[@aidenparker5955]

I was always wondering what the heck was going on with the stop motion animation.

[@PatrickGalvan91]

One of my absolute favorite short films, stop-motion or not.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

Same here! Phil Tippett definitely showcases his best work here. 😄

[@stevenelbert8989]

One of mine too

[@GhostShark4449]

As I Enjoy Your 2 Part Film Of Godzilla Attacking A City.

[@PatrickGalvan91]

@@GhostShark4449 Thanks!

[@GhostShark4449]

@@PatrickGalvan91 Your Welcome, Godzilla Claymation Champion.

[@JoshuaModerwell]

Fun fact: Phil Tippett was also the dinosaur supervisor for the 1993 film "Jurassic Park".

[@crimsondynamo615]

Clearly didn’t do a good job considering the dinosaurs ate people. Dammit Phil.

[@mikkelangelokers9965]

@@crimsondynamo615 Jurassic Park was meant to be more of a monster movie

[@MsBalanar666]

actually he was because he did together with another stop motion animator the dinosaurs and the movement before he was replaced by an imatonics

[@TheKnomad]

@@crimsondynamo615 0 days since last incident probably became common on set 😅

[@andrewrivera4046]

@@mikkelangelokers9965 Yes and no... there are monster movie elements, but there is defiantly an element of nature. Hence, "They're not monsters, Lex. Their just animals."

[@klatuk4u1]

Phil Tippett creates beauty and darkness at the same time. I remember seeing this as a kid in 87 I believe, and never forgot it. Was into Dinosaurs ever since. Godzilla helped that too~

[@franciscoivanoff2821]

Nice memories. 💖

[@treystephens6166]

Godzilla is real‼️🇯🇵

[@baluuvids]

The herbivore wails make it so much more haunting. *applause*

[@tactikiller]

I heard a little bit of Chewie in the wails

[@Eldaino999]

i remember seeing this on my old microsoft's dinosaurs cd-rom. it was titled 'the hunt' and it still scares me to death

[@NiktheSik]

yess I remember this! I remember the Hunt being much shorter

[@B1izzardHawk]

I hear you there! Although I'm less scared and more just unnerved by it

[@jorn1577]

It also didn't look like stop-motion to me as a kid.

[@godzilla964]

I played that game in grade school during my free time. Whenever something scared me I just wanted to watch it again.

[@mariodemartino2946]

So marvellous and scary. An unknown masterpiece

[@ProdBanks-el9nn]

This film still gives me the shivers. I remember watching it as a kid about 15 years ago

[@elmono6299]

For a 1985 stop motion short, The fight between the Tyrannosaurus vs the Centrosaurus was epic, especially the music.

[@jimardonesfilms]

Wow! When I was a kid, in the 90s, my dad bought our first computer and one of the softwares included was Microsoft Dinosaurs 95. That software had some video excerpts and, yeah, one of them was a shorter version of this amazing short film. Very good memories!

[@MrKarnator]

This turned from a happy centrosaurus walking around eating happely to a nightmare. 6:25 it has to be terrifying that out of nowhere a massive predator comes out from behinde the trees and was able to do so as quietly as possible.

[@redpillfreedom6692]

The Christopher Reeve documentary somehow made the scene even creepier as the soundtrack was way more intense.

[@Subfightr]

Chris reeve made a dino doc?

[@redpillfreedom6692]

@@Subfightr Hosted and narrated.

[@Avatarzillus2000]

They’re not Centrosaurus they’re Monoclonus

[@dirtypms]

@@Subfightr look up "Dinosaur (1985)"

[@WoebringerofDoom]

The world needs more of this.

[@cretaceousthehunted9669]

I love it. No Dialogue and no voice acting; it's just Dinosaurs being Dinosaurs. Edit 12/20/23: Thanks for the 1K likes!

[@Gabriel_Pierne]

:)

[@GhostShark4449]

Jurassic Park Should Be Considered This Film's Sequel

[@GhostShark4449]

Jurassic Park Should Be Considered A Sequel To This Movie

[@GhostShark4449]

@Dunca Because Well, If We Take A Look At Large Predators Like Lions, And Crocodiles, We See That They Are Built To Hunt Large Prey Animals, Like Buffalo And Wildebeest, Yet They Go After Prey Animals That Can Out Run Them. Since There Is Evidence That T-Rex Went After Fast Moving Dinosaurs Like Hadrosaurs, They Needed To Be Stealthy In Order To Land A Meal, After All They Saber Tooth Cat Was An Ambush Predator.

[@GhostShark4449]

@Dunca You Are Welcome.

[@___Nobody__]

A moment of silence those who know this from Really Wild Animals, but can’t find just the dinosaur scenes

[@filmbuff1991]

Yup! Dinosaurs And Other Creature Features. I used to have the VHS, now I have it on DVD.

[@santiagohernandez4880]

​@filmbuff1991 it's from Dinosaur 1985 by Christopher Reeve

[@filmbuff1991]

@@santiagohernandez4880 yeah I know. And they used clips from it in really wild animals.

[@adamgillen7412]

The T-Rex and Centrosaurus (Or is it Monoclonius?) fight was also shown on Eyewitness Dinosaur.

[@AspidtheAnimalLover]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKbKeIltic99fJIsi=mcKKd2895Vh2Ubju is the link to that episode if anyone still wants it

[@dwaynepipe3117]

A perfect combination of lighting, pacing, and music that creates a startling portrait of the Age of Reptiles.

[@zaiaisho6409]

The shadow at around the 3:53 mark in the lower right hand corner and the plucking of the music is eerily ominous of the events that follow. A very well produced piece of stop-motion art that is very primal and hauntingly surreal.

[@jw_gojifan19]

See, this is what the Walking with Dinosaurs 2013 film SHOULD have been like. No voice actors, just animal trying to survive.

[@PyroManiacJohnny]

Yes!

[@DoomRulz]

+JW_Gojifan Look up the Cretaceous Cut. That's exactly what it was.

[@jeepowner2858]

I thought it was a decent movie

[@get2rog]

+JW_Gojifan Those irritating voices ruined some very good animation.

[@jw_gojifan19]

get2rog I know and the trailer with no dialogue was amazing. Why can't people make a dinosaur movie without any dialogue?

[@Titan52berg]

That was some excellent animation! Glad to see that "Jurassic Park" veteran, Phil Tippett was the genius behind its realistic portrayal of the dinosaurs!

[@jailcatjones3250]

Robocop for me

[@EazyB90]

This is an absolute masterpiece that I can't believe I've never seen until now. And easily the most terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex I've ever seen in anything. Those shots of the rex stalking through the redwoods, especially the one at 5:59... *shudder* And the ending, with the other members of the Centrosaurus/Monoclonius herd calling out for their missing member, is so haunting.

[@illerac84]

Is it a Rex or an Albertosaurus?

[@burntrap123]

​@@illerac84albertosaurus dint live with centrosaurus, so it's either a daspeletosaurus or a gorgosaurus

[@velociraptor4you3291]

One of the BEST works by Phil! It's very realistic in how it presents an actual scenario that took place often during the Cretaceous (as well as the whole Mesozoic Era in general). That's the main reason why I love this, plus the stop-motion animation is SUPURB, the dinosaurs look and are animated to very realistic levels. :)

[@velociraptor4you3291]

***** Really? That's interesting.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

***** I see. I'll have to read that.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

***** Thanks.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

*****:)

[@madison_russell04]

Yeah i really like things like this, espescially the enviroment around it, the dinosaurs look great but all around them make it even better, because you can repilcate wood, grass flowers all of that very easily because we still have that and it easy to real life replicate it (some of the trees and leaves in there are made with real stuff for sure.)

[@josephwhite5936]

I remember playing this CD ROM when I was in 2nd grade. It was a reward from the teacher for good grades. Aw memories :')

[@dirtypms]

What was the CD ROM like?

[@dirtypms]

That was nice of her

[@firstnamelastname4752]

Do you remember the title of the cdrom? I've been searching for years...

[@dirtypms]

Anyone have the "Walking with Dinosaurs" CD Rom?

[@Xagzan]

Firstname Lastname Microsoft Dinosaurs.

[@mikkoheiskanen8670]

I remember running away scared from this when I was a kid. This was featured in a dinosaur education cd-rom. It ended where the title appeared so I never saw the conclusion until now, 20 years later. Feels kinda good to know what happened

[@firstnamelastname4752]

Me too! I've been trying to recall the title of the the cdrom for years, do you remember it?

[@dannymorales787]

If anyone else is still interested on the Documentary this was in, the movie was called "Dinosaurs!" it was narrated by Christopher Reeves before he was paralyzed. Here's the Link kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6Kafalpr9eIl80

[@ExtraordinaryJackson]

I remember that cd rom. It used a lot of material from Dinosaurs! but it also had some cgi animations that blew my mind as a kid.

[@gusthedinoguy230-66]

Same deal here

[@thomasgarrison1088]

I remember that cd-rom. It was called Dino-Adventure 3D...or something like that 🦖

[@drivernjax]

Mr. Tippett has fantastic attention to detail as is proven at 6:20 of this video. I haven't seen too many movies/shows that had that kind of attention to detail.

[@paleoph6168]

Love the morning scene at 1:15 and the dinosaur intro at 1:58. The ambient music (in the early part) by Mark Adler is very calming. The ambient bird noises make it sound all the more natural. I also love the roars at 4:26. Update August 2023: I'm happy to see this film get more views, it is now the second most viewed video of Phil Tippett's channel! For perspective, when I originally posted this comment years ago, it had only ~300K views.

[@danielhooper502]

that flute/synthesiser music is amazing!

[@quintonblackburn3916]

7:05 There is only one thing worse than a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex... A pissed off Tyrannosaurus Rex that no longer just wants to eat you, but to make you SUFFER for harming the King of the Lizards.

[@Mac14329]

Old Rexy just wanted a snack and this is what he gets.

[@oreoalex6807]

Tyrannosaurus is Overrated asf

[@oreoalex6807]

@Mr. Hazama (Yuki Terumi) Says most in the paleo community Actually, is over used and over represented in every media And their "Fans" Make it lool like an invencible monster when it was an Animal, not a killing machine

[@bryannedelgado6479]

It’s most likely a Daspletosaurus or Gorgosaurus

[@ducestat06savage99]

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[@LudosErgoSum]

This got a fantasy-horror vibe to it which I absolutely love. Tippett is not only a master animator, but a great conceptual storyteller as well.

[@MoonDevoured]

7:05 to the end, such a great sequence. the music really added to the intensity

[@Abominatrix650]

I love it! It feels so organic and real! Love your work Phil!

[@Charley_Goji]

Id love to see an updated documentary in this style some day.

[@nahuelarraya5552]

God...this Short Film it's so Awesome, this Stop Motion it's Art, Brutality and Beautiful Art.

[@RyanReidSpeaks]

I remember first seeing this woven into Dinosaur! with Christopher Reeve. It mesmerized me at age five and still remains my favorite documentary to this day, largely due to Phil Tippitt’s animation. O’Brien was the godfather of the art form. Harryhausen had a fluidity that was unmatched. But Tippett’s command of detail and lighting is astoundingly masterful.

[@goji3755]

I would love to see a full length film using this as its intro scene, continuing on from where this left off. This little 10 minute animation has everything I wanted to see in a dinosaur film as a kid, with none of the usual studio-mandated baggage that spoiled previous attempts at making such a feature (like The Land Before Time and Dinosaur, both of which I still enjoyed, or the Walking With Dinosaurs movie with its vastly superior Cretaceous Cut). Even as a kid, I craved a dinosaur movie with no humans, no voice-overs, and no documentary-style narration. Bonus points if it was from the point of view of a carnivore (T-rex in particular), and was at LEAST as tense, atmospheric, and explicitly gory as this. No more of this talking herbivore migration stuff we always get when someone tries to make a dinosaur movie - make it about a T-rex hatching, growing up, and eventually becoming the most terrifying killer for miles around, even usurping his territory from the previous generation's king. THAT'S what kids want.

[@t5239857289578947594]

That's what they did with the opening to Jurassic World Dominion.

[@matplayer1232]

well...primal exists now

[@skrimp6084]

I think hes on to something

[@skrimp6084]

@@matplayer1232 true and omg i cant wait for season 2

[@th3lonef0x4]

@@t5239857289578947594 Sadly that opening was cut from the theatrical release.

[@fr0wningcat]

oh my god. i remember seeing this footage used in a 20-odd year-old documentary on dinosaurs. i must have watched that thing 50 times. thank you so much phil for having such a profound impact on my childhood.

[@TheInsomniacZac]

I owned that documentary too! Seeing it again, is trippin' me out.

[@larryhornburger5139]

@@TheInsomniacZac are you talking about the one with the talking globe dude and it had a whole segment on like cockroaches and how they would survive till the end of time? i think it was called wild earth or something

[@Gurthan1990]

@@larryhornburger5139 Really Wild Animals - Dinosours

[@EternalRoman]

I would love to see the comic the AGE OF REPTILES made with this technique. Go-Motion has expanded so much more from Stop-Motion and Phil Tippett's the master of it. That comic (AOR) and its sequel would look so great on the screen.

[@pipilchocolate8654]

I saw a pixalized version of this on Dino Dons website back in 1997 as a small 7 year old boy in school! I was so amazed! So nice to be seeing this again

[@triplehate6759]

This is unironically my favorite dinosaur sequence of all time, and in my opinion one of the top 4 greatest stop motion sequences ever put to film (the other 3 being the Kong vs T.Rex fight in the original King Kong, the skeleton sequence in Jason and the Argonauts, and the Medusa sequence from Clash of the Titans).

[@Brownyman]

Best short film of all time! Chilling, dramatic, beautiful!

[@jusaeglos]

It’s amazing to find the inspiration masterpiece of many of my favourite dinosaur docs. The gloomy redwood forest, the ceratopsian stalked by a tyrannosaur… I’ve seen it on Planet dinosaur, but it was a group of daspletosaurus chasing down a chasmosaurus, a remarkable reference. Recently on Jurassic World dominion, a similar swampy like forest is seen, maybe Tippet’s work had na influence there as well.

[@digdown7955]

Wasn't Phil Tippett the 'Dinosaur Supervisor' for Jurassic Park? Godammit Phil, you failed us again! But in all seriousness, this clip is pretty awesome.

[@Mac14329]

How did he fail us?

[@seanrhea4606]

@@Mac14329 he was supposed to be watching them but they are out Killin shit ; )

[@Mac14329]

@@seanrhea4606 I don't get it.

[@at-rexontheinternet1388]

@@Mac14329 because he is the "dinosaur superviser". He should have been watching the dinosaurs and not letting this happen.

[@Mac14329]

@@at-rexontheinternet1388 That's not what "dinosaur supervisor" means.

[@goldeaglekroll1596]

I remember watching this when I was a kid. Though dated, it's still joyable film. This is one of the films amongst many that I love to be able to have a copy of, from my childhood.

[@heroesytumbas]

I had vague but precise memories of watching this short as a kid in the late 80's at my grandmother's color tv, and it completely blew my mind. After that I'd expect to re watch it every time I turned the tv on with no luck. This is so beautiful and nostalgic.

[@teddycookswell]

Over 20years ago, when I was a kid, I saw this film via VHS tape from US. I was really impressed and moved. I wonder i made a mistake, I made a response my short movie for tribute this beautiful movie. Thank you very much, Phil.

[@bigwags2284]

I watched this for the first time today since i was a young boy! seriously still gets me with the emotion of both creatures synchronised with the music was truly the start of all dinosaur clips to come :)

[@gabethedinosaur95]

I now remember those dinosaurs from eyewitnesses dinosaur. The rex and cerotopsian . Phil tippet did a great job making this short film in his garage. What a creative man he is .

[@ogrelogre8429]

This is beautiful. I don't have words.

[@luckycavy1397]

I've watched this like 5 times in the last 2 days. I just can't get over how good it is

[@richardmiranda6232]

Say what you want, but Phil Tippett KNOWS how to paint and texture his stop motion puppets. dang that's craftsmanship

[@Mer.Saloon]

There was so much beauty and horror in that eerie silence. There were no words needed to show off the disturbing power that was coming forth. Disney should have taken note of this with that Dinosaur film they made.

[@VikingFyre]

Who else first saw this on the Dinosaur! documentary from the early 90’s?

[@CaptRicoSakara]

The Documentary came out in 1985. Not the 90's.

[@itsahostiletakeover]

@@CaptRicoSakara Splitting hairs here, I was born in 1985 and probably first saw that documentary around 1990-91 myself.

[@DuelKingYami]

I was watching this before I could even pronounce the title or understand a quarter of the words. I love it dude

[@GOODNOIGHT]

CaptRicoSakaraPrower Im 30 and saw this back in the early 90s

[@TheRunningLeopard]

I heard about this short from going through concept work for Disney movie Dinosaur, and I swore that I watched this short before! Up until I was around 16, I only owned the first VHS that made up the Dinosaur! documentary, but still, the short was so important to me as a kid.

[@jaypay8954]

When I was a child I LOVED this documentary! I would check out the video cassette from the library constantly. I was so fascinated by Dinosaurs I still am to this very day. Dinosaurs are wonderful mysterious creatures that lived long ago. 🦕🦖

[@Dog-999i]

Masterpiece! When I was in Kindergarten they had a clip of the fight scene. I was obsessed with Dinosaurs so I would watch it all the time even though I was terrified by it. From the isolating atmosphere, to the unsettling music, and of course the breath taking animation, this film will forever be engrained into my mind.

[@Theonetrueerenyeager]

Thank you for keeping stop motion animation alive, I love this ❤

[@jailcatjones3250]

I remember this as a child, it was part of a dinosaur videotape I was obsessed with as a boy.

[@Kingofthecastle79]

This is fantastic! I felt like 6 year old me just watched this in 1985. Totally reminds me of my childhood in the 80s. My generation had such amazing experiences because of people like Phil Tippet🙌❤

[@johntheechidna1]

I remember seeing this in a special about dinosaurs hosted by Christopher Reeves. They moved in such a life-like manner, it was like someone went back in time to film these magnificent creatures.

[@rocky99949]

This use to scare the Bejesus out of me when I was little. Good Times :D

[@chaoticiannunez2419]

Did they show this in theaters?

[@rocky99949]

Yes I think it was.

[@ihatetobethatguy1481]

It was part of a tv documentary I believe

[@Pirelli913]

It was part of a documentary called Dinosaur! (note the exclamation point).He did a bunch of shorts that were included in the documentary and all the shorts were intertwined in some way. This was the first AND the fourth where a T. Rex stalks a lone Monoclonius. The first was kind of like a really short intro to the doc featuring a T. Rex walking in the moon light and DINOSAUR! appearing on screen and then the fourth was this. The second had a Struthiomimus stealing and eating the eggs of an Edmontosaurus. (For the longest time, I thought it was a Maiasauria, but I just looked it up to verify.) As it's eating the eggs, the parents come rushing back and the Struthiomimus takes the last egg into the forest, but before it can eat it, a pair of Deinonychus ambush and kill it. (That was my favorite short.) Later, the Edmontosaur's only surviving egg hatches and the baby grows into a juvenile. While foraging for food, it's ambushed by the T. Rex and cries for help. Its father comes and manages to knock the T. Rex on its side with its stiff tail allowing the Edmontosaurus family to escape. Finally, the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs comes and during the event, you see a variety of species get hit and all that survives are the mammals hidden in holes in the ground... As to what Dash said, this scared the crap outta me as a kid, too. I had it recorded on VHS and watched it all the time, though. Lol.

[@bennettfender1546]

Pirelli913 it's a lot more complicated than this was it's own mini short without narration however later on it was extended with more scenes and of course narration.

[@ryno720]

This is so amazing. I remember it being on a Dinosaur documentary hosted by Christopher Reeve but it was cut up and had a much more pulse pounding score. It is so great to see this in its original unedited glory. I would love to see your other dinosaur work with the hadrosaurs and raptors remastered with this level of care! Thank you again for posting this!!!

[@gsamalot]

this is how you do a dinosaur film no voice of some dude talking about the dinosaur just the sound of the wild life and the dinosaur itself

[@kennethsatria6607]

gsamalot Its fine as long as its like WWD or Planet Dinosaur, whats worse is if the dinosaur starts talking

[@kennethsatria6607]

Oh yeah

[@bennettfender1546]

gsamalot disagree a documentary needs commentary to inform the viewer about the creatures, environment, etc.

[@TheLegodude102]

@@bennettfender1546 or you could have exceptional filmmaking skills and convey without the need for diologue

[@28godzilla]

Can’t believe this was the root for Disney’s Dinosaur (2000)

[@ProfessionalArthur]

This is the greatest dino stop motion I have ever seen!

[@artfrankmiami]

What I love is it's an actual story. After a minute, you forget you're watching a stop motion special effects reel and you're deep into a story of a day in the life of dinosaurs.

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

I want more like this. Animators, a director and paleontologists coming together to create the most accurate vision possible

[@shadejakva9367]

I remember this from my childhood when it was included with the additional material Tippett made for the short that is featured throughout the "Dinosaur!" documentary. It'd be neat to get the whole thing in its uncut entirety and we can gain a full appreciation for Tippett's work that still holds up nicely today.

[@TheGreatCrow]

An old classic! Watching this was one of the very few times I was frightened by dinosaurs but also one of the reasons I still love dinosaurs to this day!

[@Gidorah2001]

this brings back so many childhood memories of watching many a dinosaur documentary. now I can personally say thank you for making something so awesome that impacted my childhood so greatly!

[@jerryphillips3283]

I remember watching this a lot as a kid. I still can’t believe this is all stop motion. Amazing.

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

Absolutely haunting.

[@Titanusrex1616]

How has this not reached a Million views!?

[@TheKingTubby1]

brilliant - never stop your genius Mr Tippett

[@sandrakiefler4649]

Absolutely beautiful! It’s been years since I’ve seen this! The horned Dino’s chewing movements/motions are freaking fantastic!(tho obviously it’s not realistic for them to “chew” anything, it’s truly awesome regardless)

[@sushibeats_420]

this small short film really makes me wonder and imagine what a dinosaur looked like and behaved when it was alive instead of just bones and fragments in a museum in an ancient forest, untouched by civilization..

[@TheDashingDino]

this is actually amazing

[@chrissanford1444]

ah man, haven't seen this since I was a kid. Used to have a dinosaur tape that it was on that I watched all the time!

[@direfranchement]

Between Wikipedia and KZbin I stumbled across this video that I last saw maybe 20 years ago and have been wondering about ever since. It was included at the beginning of a longer film about dinosaurs that I rented several times from a store that closed sometime in the early-mid 90's. This is amazing! What once was lost to me is now found. It was a source of great fascination to me as a young dinosaur geek, and it's great to see it again after all these years.

[@andrewpytko4773]

It's like watching a Dinosaur slasher movie.

[@loschrodproductions4519]

Isn't that what most dinosaur movies feel like?

[@sidneysimons6475]

@@loschrodproductions4519 Yeah, but unlike most of those, this is ctually good.

[@SapphirePicturesAustralia]

This has to rival King Kong and several Harryhausen classics for the mantle of best stop-motion dinosaur film ever. Just breathtaking. Phil Tippett, you, sir, are a genius.

[@samlund8543]

Honestly, the SOUNDS were what really got me, especially at the beginning

[@JLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL]

Good lord, I remember seeing this when I was a kid and it gave me nightmares. This just reawakened a core memory for me. So trippy.

[@SharksandDinos]

Why can't more dinosaur films be more like this?

[@ElderScrollsAssassin]

I remember watching a shortened version of this as a kid, when I played Microsoft's Dinosaurs CD endlessly. Used to give me a scare, truly nostalgic!

[@dforman4770]

Believe it or not, this actually served as the inspiration for Disneys dinosaur

[@AngilasGuy]

I have wanted to see this since I was 6 years old. I saw clips of this on an old PBS documentary. So glad I could FINALLY see this in its entirety. Thanks Phil!

[@Ninonybox]

I have been looking for this short film for over 20 years after I saw it in preschool. Thanks James from Cinemassacre!

[@ruadhribrennan]

Unbelievable. I've only ever seen bits and pieces of it patched together in documentaries but it had always been a huge influence. Now that I've seen it all I'm completely blown away by it. Thanks Phil.

[@rodolfohernandezgarcia9487]

Mr Tippett, you are a fucking Genius, I admire you

[@goldenfish771]

Phil Tippett. You have done a wonderful job with this awsome animation. I've seen this before when I was young and it never gets old to me.

[@nebogipfel11]

I would be proud to pay good money to get this amazing film on Blu Ray. Please, oh please...

[@animateangus]

With an audio commentary by Phil or making of!

[@nathanmatthews8172]

This brings back so many awesome childhood memories.

[@milesjolly6173]

that was brilliant and so realistic and lifelike as to what I would imagine these animals to look and behave like. 15/10 from me.

[@sasquatchmoon]

I loved this even back then and now.not just for the finishe d product but for the work that went into it the stop motion and the go motion as well as the sculpts and camera angles and the miniature sets. Wish you would put out all the animated sequences on DVD no narration just the moody sounds thanks Phil

[@Irodeapentaceratopstoragnorok]

This is everything Disney's Dinosaur should have been

[@virovac885]

No, I think the reveal of having the carnivores talk near the end would have been cool and scary

[@Irodeapentaceratopstoragnorok]

@@virovac885 I still think that movie would have been better with no dialogue but I will admit, the idea of a talking animal movie where the carnivores don't speak until the very end is a cool and creepy idea

[@crimsondynamo615]

This almost was what Disney’s Dinosaur was going to be, course the ceratopsian would have won and the movie would have ended with the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

[@axis3d]

I saw snippets of this in a dinosaur documentary in the mid '80's. The attention to detail in the sets - the blurring of camera moves and creature movements - the dynamic shot compostitions, lighting, and overall sense of suspense and immersion in this amazing environment. The restoration looks better than I've ever seen it before - thank you for sharing! long live stop-motion animation!

[@paleoph6168]

Glad you enjoyed this!

[@spooch3257]

The prehistoric beast really was a "prehistoric beast" of it's own right. If this is really the beginning of stop motion as being popular, its responsible so much evolution

[@Victoriatopia]

Oh my gosh. I used to watch this when I was a kid, after school on a VHS. Like ten years ago, at least. Sometimes I've thought about 'that old stop motion dinosaur movie' and wondered if I'd ever be able to watch it again. I'm just freaking out knowing it's on KZbin! I love it just as much as I did back then. So awesome.