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Life was hard in the Jurassic age, even for a large dinosaur at the top of the food chain. A few years ago, the most complete allosaurus skeleton ever found was discovered in Wyoming. The bones tells a surprisingly detailed biography of one individual dinosaur, Big Al, as he came to be known by the scientists who pieced together his story. The creators of Walking With Dinosaurs have vividly recreated this 15-year story from birth to death using the same computer graphic and animatronic techniques that stunned viewers throughout the world when they saw the original series. A companion program, Big Al Uncovered, shows how the scientists were able to trace the evidence of Big Al's life story. Using the same state-of-the-art graphic effects, Big Al haunts the modern-day museums and dig sites as passionate scientists explain their findings and theories. (texte officiel du distributeur)
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The Ballad Big Al is the beautiful and sad story of a allosaurus who may have died hundreds of millions of years ago, but whose fossilized remains can still tell the story of his short but all the more tumultuous life. I liked the way the documentary was broken up, with the first half being purely Al's story set in the Mesozoic era, from his hatching, through his adolescence and various injuries, to his untimely demise, while the second half has scientists stepping in and trying to reconstruct Big Al's life based on his skeleton and knowledge of living dinosaur relatives (birds and reptiles). Personally, I think that they managed to tell Al's story in a quite plausible way, although of course it has always been hypothesis in a way, but no one can say with 100% certainty today what exactly happened back then. All in all, a very well made and well produced film from the BBC, which, like the other of the series, stands out for its technical workmanship and narrative value.
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