Silver Screen Science - The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

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

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 72 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’re wrapping things up with a tale of cowboys and dinosaurs in The Valley of Gwangi! 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.
0:20.5	Hello, David. Hello, David.
0:21.3	Hello, listeners, and welcome to the final episode of our Silver Screen Science series for April of this year, in which we are exploring old-school dinosaurs.
0:34.3	Silver Screen Science is the series where we talk about the science and movies, the intersection of science and scientific stuff and pop culture.
0:43.2	Throughout this month, we have gone from the early 1900s to the mid-1900s looking at some old-school examples, ways that dinosaurs and other creatures have been portrayed on the big screen.
0:56.4	This episode, we wrap the whole thing up with another really famous foundational mid-century film,
1:04.0	The Valley of Gwangi from 1969.
1:08.3	Yes.
1:09.4	This is a movie that I have for many, many years called Valley of the Gwangi, which is not what its name is.
1:16.1	I'm sure that I have said that on the podcast.
1:19.0	That is not the name of the, it is called the Valley of Gwangi.
1:22.2	I don't know where, when in my existence, I moved the the, but I did.
1:28.0	It is not the valley that Guangji is in.
1:31.9	It is Guangis valley.
1:34.5	And Guany is a character.
1:37.0	It's not like the Guangi.
1:38.8	No, his name's just Guangi.
1:40.5	This is where he lives.
1:42.6	The Valley of Guant.
1:43.4	I almost did it again. The Valley of Guantz. I almost did it again.
1:51.4	The Valley of Guantzsche was released in 1969, produced by Charles Schneer and Ray Harryhausen, who also does the special effects work, as with the last movie we discussed, directed
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