"Il Pianeta Dei Dinosauri" (Planet of Dinosaurs in English) was one of those documentaries about dinosaurs made in The '90s, in the period dinosaurs reached the apex in their popularity, mainly thanks to the movie Jurassic Park — even though the Dino-Mania had already been started before that, in full 1980s. Piero Angela, the main Italian science-writer and journalist (famous well beyond the national boundaries) kept the occasion offered by the abruptive interest in dinosaurs tied with JP, making in 1993 this Speculative Documentary with the aid of a famous palaeontologist, Canadian Dale Russell, and a whole team of engineers to reconstruct the titular animals.
The adopted style is the same of another Angela's successful work made in 1990, "La Macchina Meravigliosa" (The Wonderful Machine in English, dedicated to exploration of the human body): Angela duplicates himself in two "twin hosts" which talk to each other in a simple way to better-appeal to the public. The exploration of the Dinosaur World is similar to a Time Travel, starting with the Triassic and ending at the time of the Great Extinction 65 mya. Dinosaurs encountered in the travel are those scientifically most-representative of the time. Ex. you'll don't see Giganotosaurus or Microraptor because they had to be discovered altogether, and you'll see Deinonychus as the token dromeosaurid and not Velociraptor.
When comparing Planet of Dinosaurs with the 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs, the former is maybe less-spectacular, but is (this is the main point) more scientifically-accurated — not counting Science Marches On of course, which is stronger in the Italian docu because of its earlier creation. Unlike WWD, "Planet of Dinosaurs" do not present speculative statements about dinosaurs as facts; or rather, the host continuously remind us about the hypotetical nature of paleontological science. Nonetheless, inaccuracies are present — sadly, making perfectly-accurate works about dinosaurs seems an unrealizable wish even today. Despite this, Planet of Dinosaurs remains a good work to see if you're interest about the argument, also thanks to its historical relevance: a snapshot about how dinosaurs were perceived by official science at the 1st Jurassic Park times.
Series Predecessor of Walking With Dinosaurs.
"Il Pianeta Dei Dinosauri" (Planet of Dinosaurs in English) was one of those documentaries about dinosaurs made in The '90s, in the period dinosaurs reached the apex in their popularity, mainly thanks to the movie Jurassic Park — even though the Dino-Mania had already been started before that, in full 1980s. Piero Angela, the main Italian science-writer and journalist (famous well beyond the national boundaries) kept the occasion offered by the abruptive interest in dinosaurs tied with JP, making in 1993 this Speculative Documentary with the aid of a famous palaeontologist, Canadian Dale Russell, and a whole team of engineers to reconstruct the titular animals.
The adopted style is the same of another Angela's successful work made in 1990, "La Macchina Meravigliosa" (The Wonderful Machine in English, dedicated to exploration of the human body): Angela duplicates himself in two "twin hosts" which talk to each other in a simple way to better-appeal to the public. The exploration of the Dinosaur World is similar to a Time Travel, starting with the Triassic and ending at the time of the Great Extinction 65 mya. Dinosaurs encountered in the travel are those scientifically most-representative of the time. Ex. you'll don't see Giganotosaurus or Microraptor because they had to be discovered altogether, and you'll see Deinonychus as the token dromeosaurid and not Velociraptor.
When comparing Planet of Dinosaurs with the 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs, the former is maybe less-spectacular, but is (this is the main point) more scientifically-accurated — not counting Science Marches On of course, which is stronger in the Italian docu because of its earlier creation. Unlike WWD, "Planet of Dinosaurs" do not present speculative statements about dinosaurs as facts; or rather, the host continuously remind us about the hypotetical nature of paleontological science. Nonetheless, inaccuracies are present — sadly, making perfectly-accurate works about dinosaurs seems an unrealizable wish even today. Despite this, Planet of Dinosaurs remains a good work to see if you're interest about the argument, also thanks to its historical relevance: a snapshot about how dinosaurs were perceived by official science at the 1st Jurassic Park times.