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* TheDayTheDinosaursDied: It ends with the extinction of the dinosaurs (which, despite the title, occurred sixty-six million years ago, not sixty-four). Because it was produced before it was widely agreed upon an that asteroid did it, it doesn't show or explain how it happened, it just shows every dinosaur dying, leaving only the small mammals behind.
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* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: Downplayed. While the herbivorous dinosaurs understandably treat the ''Tyrannosaurus'' with fear and hostility, it's not the unstoppable juggernaut of destruction it's usually portrayed as. It actually loses its fights against the ''Triceratops'' and ''Ankylosaurus'', and only succeeds in preying upon an ''Edmontosaurus'' through a combination of luck and good timing. This is arguably more realistic than many examples of this trope, since predators in RealLife often come out on the losing side when faced with particularly large or well-armed prey items, and even inoffensive prey will frequently escape if circumstances aren't on the predator's side.
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* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: Downplayed. While the herbivorous dinosaurs understandably treat the ''Tyrannosaurus'' with fear and hostility, it's not the unstoppable juggernaut of destruction it's usually portrayed as. It actually loses its fights against the ''Triceratops'' and ''Ankylosaurus'', and only succeeds in preying upon an ''Edmontosaurus'' through a combination of luck and good timing. This is arguably more realistic than many examples of this trope, since predators in RealLife often come out on the losing side when faced with particularly large or well-armed prey items, and even inoffensive less dangerous prey will frequently escape if circumstances aren't on the predator's side.
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* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: Downplayed. While the herbivorous dinosaurs understandably treat the ''Tyrannosaurus'' with fear and hostility, it's not the unstoppable juggernaut of destruction it's usually portrayed as. It actually loses its fights against the ''Triceratops'' and ''Ankylosaurus'', and only succeeds in preying upon an ''Edmontosaurus'' through a combination of luck and good timing. This is arguably more realistic than many examples of this trope, since predators in RealLife often come out on the losing side when faced with particularly large or well-armed prey items, and even inoffensive prey will frequently escape if circumstances aren't on the predator's side.
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** Later, after failing to takes down an ''Ankylosaurus'' and a mother ''Triceratops'', the ''Tyrannosaurus'' bites and suffocates an ''Edmontosaurus'', though the actual eating is cut away from.
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* LastOfHisKind: At the very end, we see the death of the last ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the dinosaurs succumb to extinction.
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* LastOfHisKind: At the very end, we see the death of the last ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the dinosaurs succumb to extinction.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full one to two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife. On the other hand, all species in the short are from Maastrichtian North America.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full one to two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife. On the other hand, all species in the short are from Late Maastrichtian North America.America.
* AquaticHadrosaurs: The educational short film was made before the idea was discredited, and it depicts ''Edmontosaurus'' with webbed feet, paddle-like tails, duckbilled snouts, and fleeing from a ''Tyrannosaurus'' by diving into water (as though there were some unwritten law that ''Tyrannosaurus'' would sink like a rock).
* AquaticHadrosaurs: The educational short film was made before the idea was discredited, and it depicts ''Edmontosaurus'' with webbed feet, paddle-like tails, duckbilled snouts, and fleeing from a ''Tyrannosaurus'' by diving into water (as though there were some unwritten law that ''Tyrannosaurus'' would sink like a rock).
* RiddleForTheAges: The short doesn't show or explain why the dinosaurs became extinct, only that they did. This is because the idea that dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid strike had only just been proposed, and did not gain widespread acceptance until the 1990s.
* RoarBeforeBeating: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' does this repeatedly, giving its prey the chance to mount a defence or flee to safety (which is of course the reason real predators ''don't'' do that).
* RoarBeforeBeating: The ''Tyrannosaurus'' does this repeatedly, giving its prey the chance to mount a defence or flee to safety (which is of course the reason real predators ''don't'' do that).
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* ToughArmoredDinosaur: The ''Ankylosaurus'' is shown being able to easily fend off the ''Tyrannosaurus'' with one well-aimed tail club to the face. The non-armoured ''Edmontosaurus'' does not fare quite as well.
* WhosLaughingNow: After spending the entire short fleeing or hiding from dinosaurs, at the end, all the dinosaurs have become extinct, but the little mammal has outlasted them all.
* WhosLaughingNow: After spending the entire short fleeing or hiding from dinosaurs, at the end, all the dinosaurs have become extinct, but the little mammal has outlasted them all.
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* MeekMesozoicMammal: The documentary short centres around a primitive mammal surviving at the end of the Late Cretaceous. Even the smallest dinosaur shown, the ''Ornithomimus'' is a threat to it, and the narrator states how the dominance of the dinosaurs prevents mammals from growing larger or diversifying beyond tiny insect-eaters cowering in their shadows.
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* MeekMesozoicMammal: The documentary short centres around a primitive mammal (possibly a ''Purgatorius'' or ''Mesodma'') surviving at the end of the Late Cretaceous. Even the smallest dinosaur shown, the ''Ornithomimus'' is a threat to it, and the narrator states how the dominance of the dinosaurs prevents mammals from growing larger or diversifying beyond tiny insect-eaters cowering in their shadows.
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* MeekMesozoicMammal: The documentary short centres around a primitive mammal surviving at the end of the Late Cretaceous. Even the smallest dinosaur shown, the ''Ornithomimus'' is a threat to it, and the narrator states how the dominance of the dinosaurs prevents mammals from growing larger or diversifying beyond tiny insect-eaters cowering in their shadows.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full one to two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full one to two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife. On the other hand, all species in the short are from Maastrichtian North America.
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* StockDinosaurs: While the mammal doesn't seem to represent any species in particular, instead being some kind of generic rodent, the dinosaurs all belong to familiar genera.
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* MamaBear: The mother ''Triceratops'' not only successfully fights of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' attack, but she also kills an ''Ornithomimus'' trying to eat her eggs (the mammal avoids the same fate by scurrying off before she can be spotted).
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** The mammal has to survive not only for herself, but her offspring as well.
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: This being the end of the Cretaceous period, only the mammal is left standing by the end of the film.
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* KillEmAll: This being the end of the Cretaceous period, only the mammal is left standing by the end of the film.
* LastOfHisKind: At the very end, we see the death of the last ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the dinosaurs succumb to extinction.
* LastOfHisKind: At the very end, we see the death of the last ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the dinosaurs succumb to extinction.
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* TemperCeratops: The mother ''Triceratops'' kills the ''Struthiomimus'' for attacking her nest and battles the ''Tyrannosaurus''.
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* TemperCeratops: The mother ''Triceratops'' kills the ''Struthiomimus'' ''Ornithomimus'' for attacking her nest and battles the ''Tyrannosaurus''.
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* SpiritualPredecessor: To ''WesternAnimation/PrehistoricBeast'', another stop-motion short about life in the late Cretaceous.
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* AdultFear: The mammal is has to survive not only for herself, but her offspring as well.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife.
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* EvilEggEater: An ''Ornithomimus'' is caught eating eggs by a mother ''Triceratops'', who proceeds to violently impale it with her horn.
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The NFB has made the short available on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3_TSbwx14 their official Youtube channel]].
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''64,000,000 Years Ago'' is a StopMotion animated short directed by Bill Maylone for the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
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''64,000,000 Years Ago'' is a 1981 StopMotion animated short directed by Bill Maylone for the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, anyway. 64 million years ago is actually two million years ''after'' the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction occurred in RealLife, so it's safe to assume the last non-avian dinosaurs were already long dead by that point.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Besides the above mentioned death scenes, the first scene with the herd of ''Edmontosaurus'' shows the courtship of two individuals, where the male is explicitly shown about to mount the female. However, the arrival of the ''Tyrannosaurus'' stops them before anything can happen.
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* StockDinosaurs: While the mammal doesn't seem to represent any species in particular, the dinosaurs all belong to familiar genera.
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''64,000,000 Years Ago'' is a StopMotion animated short directed by Bill Maylone for the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
The film revolves around the lives of North American dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous period, through the eyes of an early mammal trying to survive.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AdultFear: The mammal is has to survive not only for herself, but her offspring as well.
* EndOfAnEra: As the dinosaurs die off, the mammal emerges to dominate the Earth.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Despite being aimed at children, the short contains some surprisingly violent scenes.
** First, when the mother ''Triceratops'' catches the ''Ornithomimus'' eating her eggs, she impales it on her horn. The poor creature screams and writhes in agony as it dies, at which point the ''Triceratops'' scrapes the corpse off.
** Later, after failing to takes down an ''Ankylosaurus'' and a mother ''Triceratops'', the ''Tyrannosaurus'' bites and suffocates an ''Edmontosaurus'', though the actual eating is cut away from.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Besides the above mentioned death scenes, the first scene with the herd of ''Edmontosaurus'' shows the courtship of two individuals, where the male is explicitly shown about to mount the female. However, the arrival of the ''Tyrannosaurus'' stops them before anything can happen.
* GoryDiscretionShot: While the actual killing is shown in all its glory, the scene fades to black before the ''Tyrannosaurus'' can actually start eating the ''Edmontosaurus''.
* KillEmAll: This being the end of the Cretaceous period, only the mammal is left standing by the end of the film.
* MamaBear: The mother ''Triceratops'' not only successfully fights of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' attack, but she also kills an ''Ornithomimus'' trying to eat her eggs (the mammal avoids the same fate by scurrying off before she can be spotted).
* StockDinosaurs: While the mammal doesn't seem to represent any species in particular, the dinosaurs all belong to familiar genera.
The film revolves around the lives of North American dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous period, through the eyes of an early mammal trying to survive.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AdultFear: The mammal is has to survive not only for herself, but her offspring as well.
* EndOfAnEra: As the dinosaurs die off, the mammal emerges to dominate the Earth.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Despite being aimed at children, the short contains some surprisingly violent scenes.
** First, when the mother ''Triceratops'' catches the ''Ornithomimus'' eating her eggs, she impales it on her horn. The poor creature screams and writhes in agony as it dies, at which point the ''Triceratops'' scrapes the corpse off.
** Later, after failing to takes down an ''Ankylosaurus'' and a mother ''Triceratops'', the ''Tyrannosaurus'' bites and suffocates an ''Edmontosaurus'', though the actual eating is cut away from.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Besides the above mentioned death scenes, the first scene with the herd of ''Edmontosaurus'' shows the courtship of two individuals, where the male is explicitly shown about to mount the female. However, the arrival of the ''Tyrannosaurus'' stops them before anything can happen.
* GoryDiscretionShot: While the actual killing is shown in all its glory, the scene fades to black before the ''Tyrannosaurus'' can actually start eating the ''Edmontosaurus''.
* KillEmAll: This being the end of the Cretaceous period, only the mammal is left standing by the end of the film.
* MamaBear: The mother ''Triceratops'' not only successfully fights of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' attack, but she also kills an ''Ornithomimus'' trying to eat her eggs (the mammal avoids the same fate by scurrying off before she can be spotted).
* StockDinosaurs: While the mammal doesn't seem to represent any species in particular, the dinosaurs all belong to familiar genera.
