Underplayed Gems

Prehistoric Peeps (1905)

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A silent comedy from 1905 shows cavemen and early dinosaurs in pantomime costumes. Actors play the prehistoric creatures inside clumsy models.

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What happens

Prehistoric Peeps is a 1905 British one-reeler film, starring Sebastian Smith, directed by Lewin Fitzhamon and produced by the Hepworth Manufacturing Company. The only existing print has been preserved by the British Film Institute. The film is one of the "cavemen comedies", an early film genre which was inspired by the cartoon series Prehistoric Peeps by Edward Tennyson Reed. The film depicts the first onscreen non-avian dinosaurs in film history, portrayed by actors inside pantomime models. A low quality copy of the film was uploaded onto YouTube in 2024. And a higher quality copy was uploaded in 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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