The Animal World

Irwin Allen followed up his well-received documentary The Sea Around Us with the equally entertaining Animal World. The film begins with a thumbnail history of life on earth, then shows the audience how ancient habits and instincts die hard. Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen, the team responsible for the stop-motion animation in 1949's Mighty Joe Young, lavish their expertise on the film's opening dinosaur-battle sequence. The "actuality" footage is culled from 27 different countries, repr...