Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)

[Dave Monroe]

Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047930/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Beginning_of_Time

Click 'CC' to see the English subtitles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqsu2AhuXxA

This is the mind-blowing Czech movie originally titled "Cesta do
pravěku", dubbed into English. Controversially, the American
distributors filmed a new beginning and ending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bjRVQvgMlA

In 1966, another version of the film was released in the US by William
Cayton whose company had been marketing Russian animated cartoons and
feature films from the 1940-'50s, especially those of the famous
Soyuzmultfilm studios (well known titles included The Firebird, The
Frog Prince, Beauty & the Beast, The Space Explorers, and Twelve
Months). The films were dubbed, sometimes re-titled, partitioned into
chapters and distributed to US TV stations. In the case of Cesta do
Pravěku, Cayton replaced the opening and closing scenes of the
original with new footage of American boys who entered the film in a
dream squence whilst visiting the American Museum of Natural History
in New York. The film was copied to poor quality film stock and edited
into short segments (about six minutes each) for presentation as a
serial, syndicated to various children's television programs. The US
version was released on VHS video by Goodtimes in 1994. Because of the
new sequences, none of the actors' faces could be shown until the
original footage began.

In April 2001 Cesta do Pravěku was screened at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music in Brooklyn, New York, as part of the retrospective entitled The
Fabulous World of Karel Zeman. In 2010, it featured at the 50th Zlín
Film Festival (May 30 - June 6) in the Czech Republic, one day of
which (June 4) was dedicated to Karel Zeman to honour the centenary of
his birth. The four original actors also attended the ceremonies
(three from the Czech Republic and one - Vladimír Bejval - from the
US).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Beginning_of_Time#Marketing_and_retrospectives

Thanks, ABC @ ...

http://www.lifebeforethedinosaurs.com/2011/06/odontogriphus.html