On Sunday I saw the 1926 Howard Hawks film
Fig Leaves
. I'll publish a full review in the roundup at the end of the month, but I couldn't wait to mention the dinosaurs! This movie (briefly) features two very cool-looking puppet dinosaurs. There's Adam's pet
Apatosaurus, named Dobbin:
Exactly as depicted in Genesis 2.
More amazingly, there's also a budget-busting life-sized Triceratops that pulls a bus!
Awesome! Not gonna spoil the review, but the first reel of this movie used all the good Flintstones jokes, thirty-four years before The Flintstones even premiered. Except for the unfortunate bus dinosaur saying "It's a living." in a morose voice. And I'm sure that's just because the joke would be really awkward if you had to do it with title cards.
Never forget.
Published on September 10, 2013 12:35