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

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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