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How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly
19955 min 58 secFilm: Animation, Children's film, Fiction
Direction: Munro Ferguson
Production: Isobel MarksDavid VerrallBarrie McLean
The dinosaurs were headed for trouble. They ate nothing but junk food. They never brushed their teeth. They stayed up all night long. And although they loved to jump off cliffs, they didn't like landing. The early mammals tried to warn them, "You'll all be extinct if you keep that up!" But the dinosaurs just laughed... and over time they evolved into birds.
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Subject categories
- Animals > BirdsPrehistoric AnimalsStories
- History > Prehistory and Evolution
- English Language Arts > Children's Stories/Fables
- Science > Earth Science and Geology
- Languages > English as a Second Language
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
Credits
- director
- Munro Ferguson
- animation
- Munro Ferguson
- colourist
- Anne Ashton
- trace
- Torill Kove
- animation camera
- Pierre Landry
- Jacques Avoine
- Raymond Dumas
- Lynda Pelley
- music
- Normand Roger
- sound
- Normand Roger
- narrator
- Jackie Burroughs
- voice
- Liz MacRae
- Mark Trafford
- voice recording
- Michel Chalut
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- studio administrator
- Carrol Smith
- producer
- Isobel Marks
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Barrie McLean
Awards
- Silver Elephant - for Best debutant director (Munro Ferguson) - with a cash prize of 50,000Rs (1,328$US)International Film Festival for Children and Young People
- Silver Apple AwardNational Educational Media Network Competition
- Honorable Mention International Film and Video Festival