Walking Across The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time is an animated film about a group of young dinosaurs who traverse a dangerous landscape in the hope of finding a new home. Their trials on the journey and how they bond as a pack produces a heartwarming tale about perseverance, love, bravery, and found family.
The movie starts when an Apatosaurus named Littlefoot is orphaned after his mother dies protecting him from a Tyrannosaurus rex. Alone and with his home plagued by famine, Littlefoot leaves the area to go find the Great Valley where the adult dinosaurs have fled. It doesn’t take long for Littlefoot to find traveling companions in Cera the Triceratops, Ducky the Saurolophus, Petrie the Pteranodon, and Spike the Stegosaurus. On their journey, they learn lessons about overcoming prejudice between the different species, recognizing that they are better together than apart.
The Land Before Time was directed by Don Bluth, the animator-writer-director whose work included The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail. While the latter was still in production, Bluth and executive producer Steven Spielberg started talking about making a film that was similar to Bambi but starred dinosaurs. Spielberg brought George Lucas on board as a producer and then they hired An American Tail writers Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss to pen the script.
Bluth wanted the film to contain more sophisticated themes than were in the early draft (which was originally about young dinosaurs trying to find an older, wiser dinosaur) so they hired Stu Krieger to revise the script. In the new version, the dinosaur groups were taught to hate and distrust each other because they were different. Bluth later said that the young dinosaurs needed to unlearn the racism they’d been taught since they were born, which became the most important lesson of the film.
The Land Before Time came out on November 18, 1988, becoming the No. 1 movie on its opening weekend and had the then-largest opening of all-time for an animated movie. Its popularity translated into toys, clothing, school supplies, video games, books, and a string of 13 direct to video sequels.
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Walking Across The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time is an animated film about a group of young dinosaurs who traverse a dangerous landscape in the hope of finding a new home. Their trials on the journey and how they bond as a pack produces a heartwarming tale about perseverance, love, bravery, and found family.
The movie starts when an Apatosaurus named Littlefoot is orphaned after his mother dies protecting him from a Tyrannosaurus rex. Alone and with his home plagued by famine, Littlefoot leaves the area to go find the Great Valley where the adult dinosaurs have fled. It doesn’t take long for Littlefoot to find traveling companions in Cera the Triceratops, Ducky the Saurolophus, Petrie the Pteranodon, and Spike the Stegosaurus. On their journey, they learn lessons about overcoming prejudice between the different species, recognizing that they are better together than apart.
The Land Before Time was directed by Don Bluth, the animator-writer-director whose work included The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail. While the latter was still in production, Bluth and executive producer Steven Spielberg started talking about making a film that was similar to Bambi but starred dinosaurs. Spielberg brought George Lucas on board as a producer and then they hired An American Tail writers Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss to pen the script.
Bluth wanted the film to contain more sophisticated themes than were in the early draft (which was originally about young dinosaurs trying to find an older, wiser dinosaur) so they hired Stu Krieger to revise the script. In the new version, the dinosaur groups were taught to hate and distrust each other because they were different. Bluth later said that the young dinosaurs needed to unlearn the racism they’d been taught since they were born, which became the most important lesson of the film.
The Land Before Time came out on November 18, 1988, becoming the No. 1 movie on its opening weekend and had the then-largest opening of all-time for an animated movie. Its popularity translated into toys, clothing, school supplies, video games, books, and a string of 13 direct to video sequels.
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