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Reading Rainbow. Digging up dinosaurs [videorecording] / produced by Lancit Media Productions, Ltd., a production of GPN/Nebraska ETV Network and WNED-TV Buffalo ; produced by Cecily Truett, Larry Lancit ; written by Lou Berger ; directed by Larry Lancit.

Lincoln, NE : Distributed by GPN Educational Media, c2003.

1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Introduces readers to many types of dinosaurs whose skeletons and reconstructions are seen in museums and explains how scientists uncover, preserve, and study fossils. Other segments: The mysteries of dinosaurs: LeVar buries a time capsule and relates this activity to what we find now when we look at dinosaurs from the past ; What makes a dinosaur?: dino-history poem with visuals of present day animals who are related to dinosaurs ; Let's dig up fossils: a visit to the Dinosaur National Monument where dinosaur fossils are dug.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Reading rainbow ; 6.

Dinosaurs -- Juvenile films.

Fossils -- Juvenile films.

Children -- Books and reading -- Juvenile films.

Children's television programs.

Children's films.

Animated films.

Lancit, Larry.

Burton, LeVar.

Lancit Media Productions.

Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.

WNED-TV (Television station : Buffalo, N.Y.)

Great Plains National (Firm)

Digging up dinosaurs.

Reading rainbow (Television program)

Based on the book of the same title by Aliki.

Includes short reviews by children of the following books: Dinosaur time by Peggy Parish ; If you are a hunter of fossils by Byrd Baylor ; Dinosaurs! a drawing book by Michael Emberley ; Tyrannosaurus wrecks: a book of dinosaur riddles by Noelle Sterne.

Hosted by LeVar Burton.

DVD.

Public Performance Video.

Digging up dinosaurs -- The mysteries of dinosaurs -- What makes a dinosaur? -- Let's dig up fossils -- Book Reviews ; additional book recommendation.

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