The Animal World (1956)

The Animal World

“The major problem with The Animal World, which which renders the film practically unwatchable today, can be traced directly back to this quote from Irwin Allen, the writer-director-producer of this nature documentary: “We don’t use the word “evolution.” We hope to walk a very thin line. On one hand we want the scientists to say this film is right and accurate, and yet we don’t want to have the church picketing the film.”   You can’t play this information both ways, especially if your goal is to show the progression of life over time. Allen is injecting something that is very much not scientific into something that is purely scientific theory and fact. For every moment of the beautiful images and narration detailing the hard scrabble evolutionary chain from aquatic single-” read more