Prehistoric Beast (1984)
- Directed by
- Phil Tippett
- Genre
- animation
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An animated short film shows a prehistoric dinosaur in its natural environment. The creature forages and moves through a landscape using stop-motion animation.
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What happens
Prehistoric Beast is a 1984 American experimental animated short film conceived, supervised and directed by Phil Tippett. This sequence is the first film produced by the Tippett Studio, founded by Tippett. Made with the go motion animation technique, scenes from Prehistoric Beast were included in the 1985 full-length documentary Dinosaur!, first aired on CBS in the United States on November 5, 1985. In April 2011, the Tippett Studio had published on its YouTube official channel a digital restoration of the short. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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