Silver Screen Science - One Million Years B.C. (1966)

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Science, Education, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

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🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore science on the big screen and beyond. This year, we’re taking a tour through cinematic history with Old School Dinosaurs! This episode, we visit a classic of mid-century caveman-versus-dinosaur cinema, with One Million Years B.C. Check out our website for blog posts and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.9	Hello, listeners, and welcome back to Silver Screen Science,
0:25.6	the special side series of Common Descent,
0:27.4	where we talk about the science in movies this year,
0:31.4	throughout the month of April,
0:33.0	we are doing our silver screen science
0:35.1	on the theme of old school dinosaurs.
0:38.9	So far in this series, we have remained firmly in the first half of the 1900s, but now
0:45.7	we are moving into firmly and a little bit past that.
0:49.6	We're in the 60s now, only slightly less old school.
0:53.5	And actually, today's movie is an interesting one because
0:56.3	it bridges this gap. Today, we are discussing the movie One Million Years BC, which was released in
1:05.3	1966, directed by Don Chaffee. It is a remake of the 1940 one million BC. Yes, yes, yes. Which came out the same year as Fantasia.
1:17.9	This movie has a bunch of dinosaurs, stop motion dinosaurs. The special effects in this movie were done by Ray
1:25.3	Harryhausen, who is famous for a lot of his work in
1:29.3	like monster movies. He was also the protege of Willis O'Brien, who did the special
1:35.0	dinosaur effects in the earlier movies that we've talked about. Which is very fun. It's a very
1:40.7	nice generational connection. Yeah.
1:50.4	One million years BC, like I said, effects by Harry Housin, directed by Don Chaffee,
1:57.5	starring Raquel Welch's Fur Bikini, among other stars.
2:02.4	In this episode, we will be discussing the movie and the science in this movie.
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