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You're tuned in to the Dread Podcast Network.

You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garrus,

where the most influential voices in horror cinema

will spill their guts to the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garrus.

From Night Sky Productions, World Headquarters overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley,

I'm Mick Garrus, and this is Postmortem.

Let's go back way back in time to talk about the world's first movie monsters,

the world's first actual monsters.

Let's talk about dinosaurs.

Dinosaur movies go back almost as far as movies themselves.

Back in 1914, a popular cartoonist and animator named Windsor McKay

created a five-minute cartoon starring Gertie the Dinosaur.

Yes, it was a cartoon, but its popularity cannot be overstated.

That same year, DW Griffith produced a movie that incorporated two kinds of movie monsters

that would dominate the field for decades in a film called Brute Force.

First, there was an alligator with fake bat wings and a crest applied,

but it also featured the very first appearance of a stop-motion dinosaur,

the Serratosaurus.

But what really kicked things off was in 1925,

when Willis O'Brien created stop-motion animated clay dinosaurs

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