Next came The Prehistoric Man (1908), which tells the story of cavemen and dinosaur drawings coming to life. The film launched the popular trend of showing primitive humans and non-avian dinosaurs living alongside one another, even though the fossil record clearly shows that they were separated by many tens of millions of years. The first moving picture featuring dinosaurs was Prehistoric Peeps (1905), an adaptation of a cartoon with the same name. The cinematographic rise of the dinosaurs: It’s not surprising that the history of movies featuring dinosaurs goes back more than 100 years. The fact that they aren’t found in the modern world (except for birds) excites the imagination, and films represent some of the few opportunities to see them as they may have looked when they were alive. Dinosaurs fit perfectly into the role of movie monsters: many were enormous, or had distinctive characteristics such as spikes, horns, claws and big teeth.
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