# 1994 VHS • Eyewitness Dinosaur 60 FPS

Eyewitness Dinosaur is a documentary program from the BBC Eyewitness series, structured around the Eyewitness book of the same title and produced using white-background studio photography combined with 3D computer graphics and location filming. The program covers the full sweep of dinosaur science: the origin of the name "dinosauria," the evolution of the dinosaur leg plan, the discovery history of Tyrannosaurus rex from Barnum Brown's 1900 find through the tenth specimen excavated in 1990, the Mesozoic era's three periods, dinosaur body size extremes, feeding strategies and dentition across herbivores and carnivores, locomotion and tail function, trace fossil evidence for speed estimates, nesting behavior at the Maiasaura bone beds in Montana, pack-hunting by Deinonychus, the warm-blooded versus cold-blooded debate, skin impressions, armor adaptations, and the major extinction theories including the meteor impact hypothesis. A behind-the-scenes segment details the production methods, including 3D computer animation, a latex-and-scaffolding Stegosaurus tail built to crash through a corrugated iron fence, and plasticine stop-motion models.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1994
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-EyewitnessDinosaur)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/TheVistaGroup-EyewitnessDinosaur?play=1)