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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of I Heart Radio. Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from stuff to blow

your mind focusing in on mythical creatures, ideas, and monsters in time. Our recent Weird House Cinema episode on the 1981 film Dragon Slayer

got me thinking once more about Dragon Flight. In this film, noted for its superb dragon effects,

we get to see Vermothrax pejorative soar terrifyingly across the sky like a fighter jet, as well as swoop down from craggy peaks, but we don't see the creature engage in vertical take-off.

In the special features for the excellent 2023 remastered Blu-ray release, the effects team indicated

that they intentionally avoided depicting the dragon taken to flight, in order to avoid challenges

in making the feet seem believable.

Because of course dragons, while creatures of fantasy,

should feel believable on the screen,

and that may often mean choosing what to depict and what to leave to the audience's

imagination.

But in raising the specter of believable Dragonflight, I was reminded of an older episode

of Weird House Cinema in which I discussed the 1982 animation. I was

a older episode of Weird House cinema in which I discussed the 1982 animated film The Flight of Dragons

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