While I am insanely busy with this semester, and life overall, and everyone else is insanely busy with the holidays and all else that goes on, I hope we all have a moment to relax this weekend. For me, I wanted to take a few moments to blog once again. How I've missed it! I'd like to share something special with you today. It's a documentary film from the '90's, now graciously uploaded to YouTube by DinosaurTheatre, called The Great Dinosaur Hunt!
(I still own the above VHS, the only release
of this film. Photo from Amazon.com)
Back in the day, I watched this dinosaur paleontology documentary over and over again. It was my favorite movie of all time (even surpassing "regular" movies) and I couldn't get enough of it. It was during another viewing of this after I had just turned 15 that I started to seriously consider dinosaur paleontology as a career choice. Of course, as a tot I wanted to dig up dinosaurs, and truly have no memories of life without dinosaurs, but as a viable, thinking teenager, that was the first time I realistically thought about it. This film also fostered my love of all things Asian, and introduced me to the likes of Phil Currie, Dale Russell, and Dong Zhiming (as it deals with the Royal Tyrell Museum and the IVPP co-expeditions to the Gobi Desert, as well as the Arctic and Dinosaur Provincial Park starting in the late 1980's). Perhaps it isn't so amazing to all of you, but to someone who likes expedition-based documentaries, footage of dig sites, interviews of professional paleontologists, scientific concepts and discussions, and what you might call real documentaries (Discovery Channel and associates, are you listening?), and of course, because of the sentimental value, I truly love this film. Every second of it. Even today. So please, take moment to enjoy this film if you have a chance this weekend. If not, watch it later. It's worth ninety minutes of your time.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
If you have any comments about the film, or my blog in general, please drop me a comment!
Spencer Bronte
Science, to a Student
