Dinosaurs: fun, facts and fantasy

This informative and entertaining program is a mixture of puppets, songs, animated models, drawings, old film footage and dramatised sequences, and it will answer everything you ever wanted to know about dinosaurs.

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Credits

director

Clive Doig

producer

Malcolm Craddock

production company

Picture Palace Productions

Duration

01:00:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1982

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324017

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Animals & Wildlife → Dinosaurs

Childrens Films

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Australia

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1982