 |
|
|
|
|
Prehistoric Life |
|
|
|
DK Publishing - Author
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Video: VHS | 4.17 x 7.48in | ISBN 9780789407245 | 01 Aug 1996 | 8 - 14 years |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Follow up to the award-winning Eyewitness Video series.
The history of Earth before man, or pre-history, is not pre anything to the organisms that existed millions of years ago and Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Video: Prehistoric Life effectively guides us through the four and a half billion years or so before we first walked upright. In thirty minutes, this video colorfully dives into the theories behind the creation of the Universe and the molten blob that eventually became Earth. Several hundred years ago, the Earth's age was determined by adding the ages of the people in the Bible, determining that the Earth was created in the fall of 4004 BC. Modern Science has effectively dated geological finds back in the billions of years-creating a prehistory mammoth in scope to human history. Combining footage of actual digs and scientific processes, with computer graphics and animation recreating everything from primordial soup to Pangea (the one collective land mass before our current continents divided And drifted apart), the viewer is virtually put into a time machine and taken back to when organisms were nothing more than organic compounds and proteins that split to become life. Since 99% of all life forms that ever existed on Earth are now extinct, fossils are the best records we have that prehistoric life existed at all. On this exciting journey through time, you will learn how Marie Curie helped to date fossils, how the oceans were created, when plant life was joined on land by the first amphibians and then reptiles, and about the plural global extinctions that took out all life forms-most notably the dinosaurs. Different theories of evolution such as Darwinism are touched upon, and concrete evidence is presented showing scales evolving into feathers as birds take flight and how the discovery of "Lucy" in 1974 put primitive man on their feet million of years before Homo Sapiens. This riveting video in the Eyewitness series adds weight to our current existence by putting into context our history as man with the billions of years of pre-history that occurred before us and what we might become billions of years from now.
The look of Eyewitness is dazzling. —Los Angeles TimesAn eye-popping odyssey... —New York Newsday
A snappy pace, snazzy Emmy-winning graphics and off-beat factoids distinguish Eyewitness. —TV Guide
A dazzling rhapsody in white, Eyewitness is a high-tech whiz-bang of a nature show that looks unlike any other.... This is something for the whole family to watch. And watch again. —USA Today
Eyewitness is really news! The new PBS series shoves nature television into the modern arena, examining in electric half-hour blocks a type of animal, and finding eyewidening ways to reveal the critters' essences. —Chicago Tribune
... exciting, informative films that are beautiful to look at, too... enjoyable and informative for any age. —School Library Journal
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
© 2008 DK Publishing 375 Hudson St. New York, NY 10014 |
|
|
|
|
View basket |
