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The Animal World

  • 19561956
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  • 1h 22m
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6.9/10
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The Animal World (1956)
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A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.
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6.9/10
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    • Irwin Allen
    • Irwin Allen
    • Theodore von Eltz
    • John Storm
    • Irwin Allen
    • Irwin Allen
    • Theodore von Eltz
    • John Storm
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      It is interesting to note that, in the 26-year partnership between producer Charles H. Schneer and special effects artist Ray Harryhausen (which had just begun the previous year at Columbia Pictures with It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)), "The Animal World" is one of just two films (the other being One Million Years B.C. (1966)) of Harryhausen's work during that time frame which Schneer did not produce.
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      Edited into Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Terror on Dinosaur Island (1965)

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    8/10
    The movie may be lost, but the animation survives!
    To be frank, I've never seen the movie "The Animal World" but as a kid, I inherited the View-Master reels, and later the "Prehistoric Animals" packet, from my older brother... Boy! Did I wish I could see the movie one day! Being a monster movie buff, I bought the movie "The Black Scorpion" on DVD lately and to my surprise, I found out that the entire "Dinosaur Sequence" animated by Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen from "Animal World" was included as an extra feature on it! Wow! I finally saw it! And it was worth the wait... in part. I'm giving it a rating of 8/10 because the sequence is composed of superb stop-motion animation by two great masters, but also of cheesy looking dinosaur puppets... Anyway, it's great fun to look at!
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      • August 6, 1957 (West Germany)
      • United States
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