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"The Last Dragon" drama-documentry into Dragons

  • 07-04-2005 02:13PM
    #1
    Scruff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,228 ✭✭✭


    Avoiding work and doing a bit of browsing instead and i stumbled across this:

    http://www.framestore-cfc.com/television/the_last_dragon/index.html

    Its like the Walking with Dinosaurs series but this time its about dragons! the clip looks deadly. Did anyone seen it on Channel 4??
    The US premiere of this show, on Animal Planet, was the most watched programme in the network's history.

    When you're looking for a VFX team to bring an essential burnish of authenticity to a crypto-zoological documentary about fire-breathing reptiles, who you gonna call? Framestore CFC are delighted that The Last Dragon (UK title - Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real in the US) was nominated for its outstanding visual effects by the Visual Effects Society in its third annual Awards short-list. The 100-minute programme first aired in Germany in November 2004, and will be broadcast on Channel 4 at 7.00pm on Saturday 5th March 2005. ......
    A thrilling 'investigation' into these legendary beasts, The Last Dragon uses a docu-drama approach to bring plausibility to its subject. The programmes premise is that dragons existed from prehistoric times, co-existing with both the dinosaurs and then later with mankind, becoming extinct only relatively recently, thanks to man's ruthless hunting.


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  • #2
    tSubh Dearg
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    I saw it. It was on about a month ago on Channel 4. It was really good as it went into the mythology surrounding dragons and how they appear in every culture, which is what they built on in the program. How could both inuits in Alaska and aboriginies in Australia, cultures that could never have interacted, have tales about the same creature?

    Basically it followed a palentoligist who went to reseach a giant lizard found frozen in a cave up a mountain in Romania I think it was. They went through tthe possible physiology, both internal and external, of dragons, how they evolved into various branches (ie the flying dragons in europe and the wood dragon of China), how they managed to survive whatever killed the dinosaurs and how they were finally brought to extinction by man.

    It had excellent visual effects and was something interesting to watch on a saturday night.


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