You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.

Hello, Will. Hello, David.

Hello, listeners, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science, a special series of common descent,

where we explore the science in movies, particularly movies that have to do with paleontology, biology, geology,

not just nitpicking the little things that they got right or wrong, but exploring the

broad intersection of science and pop culture. This year, we are releasing silver screen

science all throughout the month of April with the theme of old school dinosaurs. We are exploring

some old movies with dinosaurs, old, outdated, some of them not very good.

We're having a whole lot of fun.

In the first episode, we started with the granddaddy of dinosaur movies, the Lost World,

from 1925.

This episode, we're doing something a little bit different for Silver Screen Science. We are

discussing three different short films from the early history of dinosaurs in movies. In this

episode, we will be discussing Gertie the Dinosaur, the Ghost of Slumber Mountain, and the

right of spring section of Disney's Fantasia.

We're going to go through each one.

We'll chit-chat about the science of it, how we feel about the portrayal of science, what has changed over time.

And we'll talk a little bit about the significance of each one, because each one does hold a pretty momentous and influential

place in the history of dinosaurs in film. It's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah. In this main

episode, we will stick mostly to talking about the science, but if you're interested in hearing

our further thoughts, just our whatever other stuff we had to say about the experience of watching the film, you can head over to Patreon where we will be posting a more thoughts episode where we'll just sort of chit chat even more.

Before we get into the episode, perhaps the least necessary spoiler alert we've ever done for Silver Screen Science.

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