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A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.
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The Raging Story of Animal Life on Earth Before Dawn of Man!
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In interviews following his retirement Ray Harryhausen indicated the film "ran into a censorship problem" apparently from the Hays Office. The criticism centered on the sequence of a Ceratosaurus killing a Stegosaurus then fighting a second Ceratosaurus. The criticism centered on the violence of the fight sequence. Harryhausen noted the film's live action animal sequences were similarly bloody, hence the viciousness of the dinosaur battle.
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I've got good news at least for the three (so far) commenters here, and perhaps for others as well: THE ANIMAL WORLD has survived intact, and is available from the Warner Archive.
I bought it, not surprisingly, for the dinosaur sequence; I too got those ViewMaster reels in 1956 and have wondered ever since what the movie was like. The movie as a whole is a pretty-good nature documentary, akin to (though not quite as good as) the Walt Disney True-Life Adventures of the 1940s and '50s. The O'Brien-Harryhausen animation scenes are justifiably the main draw here, and they alone are worth the price of the DVD.