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Giant Creatures

By moviejourneys On March 31, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Dreamtime: Kinship with the Animals
On a trip to Alice Springs, the hub of the Australian Outback, we learned that the rounded hills  encircling the town had once, in the Dreamtime, been giant caterpillars. In the course of our explorations of this area, we heard of many other large ancestral animals who had departed in spirit and had left their [...]
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Lost Land Movies

By moviejourneys On February 21, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Dreamtime: Kinship with the Animals
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959, remade 1999) The Lost World (1925, 1992 and sequel) – Spielberg The Land that Time Forgot (1975, 2009) Wikipedia says that King Solomon’s Mines (1885) is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and it is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary [...]
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Dinosaur & Mammal Myths in Movies (Animated)

By moviejourneys On February 14, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Dreamtime: Kinship with the Animals
The earliest memory I have of on-screen dinosaurs is the animated episode in Disney’s Fantasia (1940) that depicts the formation of Earth and the age of giant reptiles. What other generations in the history of the world, has been given such resources to aid in imagining the progression of life on this planet?  What was [...]
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Movie Dreamtime: Talking Animals

By moviejourneys On February 14, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Dreamtime: Kinship with the Animals, Uncategorized
Talking animals run deep in the storytelling traditions of people around the world. What they have to say wants to remind us of our kinship with the lowliest creatures, from wise cracking insects to the largest of the thunder lizards that once roamed the Earth. Our conversation with the animals has come along way since [...]
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Movies: Was It All a Dream?

By moviejourneys On February 13, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Dreamtime: Kinship with the Animals
There was a legendary Chinese philosopher who lived some centuries before the Common Era. He can be found on the Internet under the name Zhuangzi (say Zhwan-za). Today he is best known for his brief parable of the butterfly dream. In this story he tells of dreaming that he was a butterfly. He wakes to wonder [...]
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