Dinosaurs Alive!
New IMAX movie brings dinosaurs back to life
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| Here is a film still from the IMAX movie Dinosaurs Alive. (Photo: Courtesy of DamnFX) |
The movie features the earliest dinosaurs from the Triassic Period to the monster dinosaurs like the T. Rex (Tyrannosaurus rex) and Velociraptor of the Cretaceous period.
“[We] chose the topics of dinosaurs because everybody loves dinosaurs and there haven’t been any good dinosaur movies made in IMAX,” said producer and co-director David Clark.
For the movie, researchers visited the Gobi Dessert of Mongolia and the Ghost Ranch in New Mexico to find dinosaur fossils. Mark Norell and Mike Novacek, two well-known paleontologists (scientists who study fossils) led the expedition. Norell and Novacek are from the American Museum of Natural History. They left with a few graduate students for the trip.
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| Roy Chapman Andrews (second from right) and team excavate bones in Mongolia in 1928. (Photo: J.B. Shackelford) |
The paleontologists were able to show how the dinosaurs lived and even died. They also discovered that the descendants of dinosaurs still walk among us. Today we know them as birds!
This life-size movie took only nine months to make. Yet, it took five years to raise the money to cover the whole production.
Clark explained that "to make dinosaurs come alive [they] used a lot of computer graphics and animators.” The graphics are amazing!
I think older children who are familiar with dinosaurs will really enjoy this movie.
Dinosaurs Alive is now playing in IMAX theaters around the country.
Michael Carboni is a member of the Scholastic Kids Press Corps.
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