Dinosaurs Come to Life

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1699A
Date Released
28 Dec 1961
Date Other
Dec 1961
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Hotel for High Seas
  2. 2Art Goes Way Out
  3. 3Dinosaurs Come to Life
  4. 4Remember Summer?
  5. 5A Devil of a Dance
  6. 6Fastest to the Fire

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 6
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dinosaurs Come to Life. DESCRIPTION: In the course of construction work near Marseille, they made an interesting discovery, an archaeologist confirmed that they’d unearthed the jawbone of a dinosaur, the biggest ever discovered. A fascinating clue to prehistoric days, it belonged to a fabulous monster like one of these in London’s Natural History Museum. An English couple, Dr Mantell and his wife, were first in the field of dinosaur discovery. They found these teeth in 1822. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS construction site. MCU archaeologist at work. CU same. CU jaw bone of dinosaur. MCU same. MLS dinosaur skeletons in museum. MCU pan - same. CU picture of dinosaur. MS reptile skeleton. CU head of same. CU picture of reptile. MLS skeletons in museum. MCU teeth discovered by Dr Mantell. CU model of iguanodon. CU bones of same. CU model of same truer reproduction. MLS skeleton in museum.
Keywords
Animals; History and archaeology
Locations
France; London; Marseille
Footage sources
France
Movietone
Card file number
83559
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
141
Story extras:
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