Post by joakinmar on Apr 7, 2024 8:49:21 GMT
Hello, my name is Joaquin and I just arrived to this forum with a strong interest for lost media and I have a mystery that I would love to be solved after many years intriguing me.
As a kid, I had many VHS tapes with dinosaur documentaries. It was the 90s after all and dinosaurs were the coolest thing at the time (I still think they are). Well, one of them contained the documentary series The Dinosaurs from PBS. It was given to me by the boyfriend of one of my cousins. The documentary was released in 1994/1995 in the private channel Canal Plus (I'm from Spain) and between the chapters there was a weird short film that really scared me in those days.
The short was in real image and it starred a ugly dinosaur similar to an ankylosaur that wakes up in a warehouse and then, gets out from there and makes its way through a city to then arrive to a junkyard and finally, a museum full of dinosaur skeletons. Ultimately, a security guard finds the dinosaur, completely inanimated and throws it in the garbage.
I remember some scenes from the short, including two streetlights fighting each other with their lights overflashing and making their silhouettes look like dinosaur skeletons. Then, in the junkyard, there were many vehicles such as excavators or cranes behaving like dinosaurs. The special effects in general were a mixture of stop motion and animation. The main protagonist was a puppet.
For possible origin, I think the short was made in Europe, because I clearly recall that the narrator and the people weren't talking in English, but instead in French or Italian. It looked like it was made in the late 80s or early 90s. And if I have any direct evidence, unfortunately, the tape containing the short is lost.
I have no clue about the title or what people were involved. If anyone has a hint about it, I would appreciate you could share it, because I would want to find it.
As a kid, I had many VHS tapes with dinosaur documentaries. It was the 90s after all and dinosaurs were the coolest thing at the time (I still think they are). Well, one of them contained the documentary series The Dinosaurs from PBS. It was given to me by the boyfriend of one of my cousins. The documentary was released in 1994/1995 in the private channel Canal Plus (I'm from Spain) and between the chapters there was a weird short film that really scared me in those days.
The short was in real image and it starred a ugly dinosaur similar to an ankylosaur that wakes up in a warehouse and then, gets out from there and makes its way through a city to then arrive to a junkyard and finally, a museum full of dinosaur skeletons. Ultimately, a security guard finds the dinosaur, completely inanimated and throws it in the garbage.
I remember some scenes from the short, including two streetlights fighting each other with their lights overflashing and making their silhouettes look like dinosaur skeletons. Then, in the junkyard, there were many vehicles such as excavators or cranes behaving like dinosaurs. The special effects in general were a mixture of stop motion and animation. The main protagonist was a puppet.
For possible origin, I think the short was made in Europe, because I clearly recall that the narrator and the people weren't talking in English, but instead in French or Italian. It looked like it was made in the late 80s or early 90s. And if I have any direct evidence, unfortunately, the tape containing the short is lost.
I have no clue about the title or what people were involved. If anyone has a hint about it, I would appreciate you could share it, because I would want to find it.
