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Hello, David. Hello, David.

Hello, everybody, and welcome to Silver Screen Science.

This is our special series on Common Descent,

where we take some time every year to talk about the science in movies,

not just the nitpicky stuff about what they got right or what they got wrong,

but the broader concept of how science and scientists and scientific concepts are portrayed in movies and

in the case of this year's silver screen science, how they have been portrayed in movies over time.

Yes.

These days, each year we pick a theme of what movies to talk about this year's theme is old school dinosaurs.

We will be releasing four episodes on a series of old depictions of prehistoric life centering around dinosaurs.

These will be most of the oldest movies we've ever talked about on silver screen science.

Not all of them.

We did King Kong.

We did Godzilla.

We've hit some old ones before.

But these will include the oldest films.

Not only that we have ever talked about on silver screen science, but that we will ever talk about because films don't get much older than this.

Yep.

This episode, we are starting off our journey through old school dinosaurs.

With The Lost World from 1925, this film was directed by Harry O'Hoyt.

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