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The Land Earlier Fourth dimension is a 1988 theatrical animated film, directed by Don Bluth (with production based around his Ireland-based studio), and executive-produced past Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Originally released by Universal Studios and Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, it features anthropomorphic dinosaurs living in a somewhat fantasy-based version of prehistoric earth. The plot concerns a young Apatosaurus named Littlefoot, who is orphaned (or then information technology is long believed, as his father is shown to still be alive in The Land Before Fourth dimension X: The Great Longneck Migration) when his mother is killed by a Tyrannosaurus. Littlefoot flees famine and upheaval to search for the "Groovy Valley", an area which has been spared devastation. On his journey, he meets four young companions: Cera, a Triceratops; Ducky, a Saurolophus, Petrie, a Pteranodon; and Spike, a Stegosaurus.^[i] The moving picture explores issues of prejudice between the different species and the hardships they endure in their journeying as they are guided by the spirit of Littlefoot'south mother.

The picture show was a disquisitional and financial success and spawned a multi-million dollar franchise with xiii direct-to-video sequels (without association with Bluth, Spielberg, or Lucas), equally well as merchandise (toys, video games, etc.) and a television series.

Contents

• 1 Voice actors
  • 1.1 Secondary Characters
• 2 Plot
• 3 Appearances
  • 3.ane Characters (in order of appearance)
• 4 Scenes
• 5 Deleted Scenes
  • five.one Littlefoot and the Snake
  • 5.2 Storyboard drawings from the Sharptooth attack
• 6 Production
  • 6.1 Storyline development
  • 6.ii Developing the characters
  • vi.three Editing of the film
• seven Reception
  • seven.1 Box office
  • 7.two Assay
  • 7.three Ratings
  • vii.4 Awards/Nominations
• eight Music
  • eight.1 Songs
  • 8.ii Soundtrack
• 9 Cultural Influence
  • 9.one Merchandise
  • ix.two Sequels and spinoffs
  • ix.3 TV Airings
    • nine.3.1 United States
    • 9.3.2 Centre East and North Africa
  • 9.4 References in media
• x Trivia
  • 10.ane Inaccuracies
  • 10.2 Goofs
• xi Grapheme Debuts
• 12 Memorable Quotes
  • 12.1 Littlefoot
  • 12.2 Cera
  • 12.iii Ducky
  • 12.4 Petrie
  • 12.v Littlefoot'south Mother
  • 12.6 Daddy Topps
  • 12.7 Rooter
  • 12.8 Narrator
• xiii Gallery
  • 13.1 Concept art
• 14 References
• 15 External links

Vocalisation actors

• Gabriel Damon equally Littlefoot
• Will Ryan every bit Petrie
• Candy Huston as Cera
• Judith Barsi as Ducky

Secondary Characters

• Pat Hingle as the Narrator/Rooter
• Helen Shaver as Littlefoot's Female parent
• Burke Byrnes as Daddy Topps
• Bill Erwin every bit Granddad Longneck

Plot

Littlefoot and his female parent, discussing the legend of the Great Valley.

In a time overlapping the Jurassic Period and Cretaceous Period, a drought is occurring and several herds of dinosaurs begin an exodus to an oasis known as the "Great Valley", a land supposedly spared from desolation. Unfortunately, this proves to be a perilous journey, every bit apart from the treacherous terrain and natural disasters, carnivorous "sharpteeth" constantly stalk the starving herds, waiting to make a meal of whatsoever stragglers. Among these, a diminished "Longneck" herd gives birth to a single babe, named Littlefoot (Gabriel Damon).

Years later, Littlefoot plays with Cera (Candace Hutson), a "3-horn", who was trying to smash a beetle until her father (Burke Byrnes) intervenes; whereupon Littlefoot'due south mother (Helen Shaver) names different kinds of dinosaurs: "Iii-horns", "Spiketails", "Swimmers", and "Flyers" and states that each has historically remained autonomously. That night, equally Littlefoot follows a "Hopper", he encounters Cera over again, and they play together over again briefly until a big dark light-green "Sharptooth" attacks.

He near has them, earlier Littlefoot'due south mother comes to their rescue and faces off with Sharptooth. During their fight, she suffers severe injuries in her dorsum and cervix from Sharptooth's teeth and claws. At the same time, an "earthshake" opens a deep ravine that swallows upwards the Sharptooth and divides Littlefoot and Cera from their herds. Littlefoot finds his mother just as she's dying, and receives her advice in favor of his intuition. Depressed and dislocated, Littlefoot meets an old "Clubtail" named Rooter (Pat Hingle), who consoles him upon learning of his female parent'southward death. Littlefoot later on hears his mother's vocalization guiding him to follow the "bright circle" past the "great rock that looks like a longneck" and and so past the "mountains that burn down" to the Swell Valley.

On his journey (now all by himself), Littlefoot meets Cera once again and tries to go her to join him, but she refuses. Later, Littlefoot is accompanied by a young "Peacher/Swimmer" named Ducky (Judith Barsi), whose company bears him out of his depression. Soon later, they meet an aerophobic "Flyer" named Petrie (Will Ryan). Cera, who is attempting to observe her ain kind, finds the unconscious Sharptooth inside the ravine. Thinking he is expressionless, Cera harasses him, during which she mistakenly wakes him up, and flees. She later on bumps into Littlefoot, Ducky, and Petrie, and tells them that the Sharptooth is live; although Littlefoot does not believe her. She and so describes her encounter (exaggerating her bravery), during which she accidentally flings Ducky into the air and discovers a hatchling "Spiketail", whom she names Spike and brings him into the group.

Seeking the Not bad Valley, they discover a cluster of trees, which is abruptly depleted past a herd of Diplodocus. Searching for remaining growth, they discover a tree, and obtain food by stacking upward atop each other and Petrie pulls off lots of treestars. Cera remains aloof; but at nightfall, everyone including herself gravitates to the Sharpttoth footprint that Littlefoot is sleeping in for warmth and companionship. The adjacent forenoon, they are attacked past Sharptooth, simply escape through a cavern-tunnel too small-scale for him to fit through.

Beyond this, they observe the Longneck-shaped monolith mentioned past Littlefoot's mother, and after a cord of "mountains that fire". Cera grows impatient of the seemingly-resultless trip and decides to become another way, but Littlefoot refuses, telling her the way she is going is wrong and when Cera refuses to retract an insult near Littlefoot's mother (whom he mentioned to back his claim), a fight between the two ensues, causing a schism in the travelling party whereby Littlefoot continues in the direction he was told, while the others follow Cera.

When Ducky and Spike become endangered by lava and Petrie gets stuck in a tar pit, Littlefoot returns to rescue them; afterwards, they observe Cera harassed by a pack of "Boneheads", and, having been coated in tar, scare them away. Humiliated, Cera leaves them in a huff, merely presently breaks down crying due to her wounded pride - her fear existence exposed and her unwillingness of admitting that she put her friends in danger for her own selfish ends (the latter of which could also lead to a possible scolding from her father). Later, while crossing a pond, Petrie discovers the Sharptooth nearby. With this, Littlefoot plots to lure him into the water below a nearby boulder, intending to drown him.

As Ducky (being used every bit bait) lures Sharptooth to the water, Littlefoot and Spike are having trouble moving the bedrock. During the proceeding struggle, a typhoon from Sharptooth's nostrils enables Petrie to fly. Sharptooth leaps onto the boulder and the programme nearly fails until Cera reunites with the group, assuasive Littlefoot and his friends to push both Sharptooth, Petrie and the boulder into the water below, momentarily taking Petrie down with him, but the latter later emerges unharmed. Littlefoot, lonely, follows a cloud resembling his mother to the Smashing Valley, in that location to exist joined by the others. Upon inflow, Petrie impresses his family with his newfound flight, while Ducky introduces Spike to her family, who adopt him. Cera reunites with her father and Littlefoot rejoins his grandparents. Cera and then calls for Littlefoot to play. They bring together their friends at the pinnacle of a hill and embrace each other in a group hug.

Appearances

Characters (in order of advent)

Ducky (debut)

Cera (debut)

Littlefoot (debut)

Sharptooth (debut)

Petrie (debut)

Spike (debut)

Scenes

• Littlefoot and Cera play in a bubbly swamp with the Frogs.
• Littlefoot and Cera are playing with the Frogs earlier sharptooth comes subsequently them.

Deleted Scenes

Littlefoot and the Ophidian

The gang, rejoicing upon finding the Smashing Valley.

The scene opens with Littlefoot foraging for nutrient (particularly pine needles) with his mother. After eating a pino cone, the young longneck frolics away from his mother and runs into a Dinilysia. Littlefoot flees from the predator, his distressed cries alerting his female parent. He then runs into a dead end, though earlier any impairment can be washed to the immature dinosaur, his mother steps in to save his life and defeat the snake. After the snake is flung abroad, Mama Longneck and Littlefoot comprehend. The scene presumably takes place not specially long after Littlefoot's nativity, judging by his design. It is unknown why this was cut from the film; the scene may accept not had much point in being in it.

Storyboard drawings from the Sharptooth attack

These are the Sharptooth storyboard drawings from early in the film's production, uploaded on his blog by ones of the animators who worked on the film, Mark Pudleiner. Nearly a infinitesimal'southward worth of these scenes were cutting out. Many of these scenes are not present in the released film. They are the primeval of the cuts; many of them were never fully animated. Some were, equally a cel of where Sharptooth rips up the tree was found many years ago, plus an attached cel of Littlefoot and Cera running upward the loma and (likely) around to the briars every bit he rips up the tree.

Ane big departure in these scenes than the movie's is that Sharptooth has crocodile-similar skin and plates on its back. The Plated Sharptooth from the much later sequel The Land Earlier Time 5: The Mysterious Islandreleased in 1997 has like plates. Inspiration for this sharptooth may have been from this early pattern of Sharptooth.

As well, the office of where Sharptooth injured his eye was supposed to happen before he started looking for the kids in the briars. These two scenes may have been rearranged so could not be changed back without affecting the soundtrack, and could only be fixed by making new music. Another difference in these storyboards is that Sharptooth

One of the deleted storyboard drawings of Sharptooth; annotation that he had plates on his back like the Plated Sharptooth during these early stages of product.

was originally shown ramming into the tree under Littlefoot and Cera, and that the two kids actually climbed into the tree, before Sharptooth tried to seize with teeth them through information technology, before then ripping the tree apart. Claret is also shown flying into the air after Sharptooth'south centre is injured.

The main reason why these scenes were cut is considering they were said to be frightening to children, particularly some of the shut-ups of Sharptooth'southward head attacking the lens of the camera and when he appears out of nowhere and attacks.^[two]

Some believe that more of the Sharptooth scenes involving Littlefoot'due south mother could exist found in the future. They are rumored to show Sharptooth ripping her back open in full, and not simply through a shadow.

Product

The animation production for The Land Before Time took place at Sullivan Bluth Studios in Dublin, Republic of ireland. The film had originally been planned for release in fall of 1987, but the production and the release date were delayed past a yr due to the studio's relocation to Dublin. Had the studio not been relocated, many of the cut scenes would have made information technology into the moving-picture show.^[2]

Storyline evolution

Amblin Entertainment held the idea of producing a flick involving dinosaurs, on the basis that dinosaurs were a popular topic with children.^[3] Steven Spielberg suggested making the picture show into a prehistoric version of Disney'south Bambi, depicting a young dinosaur's struggles to survive and mature.^[3] Eventually, more young dinosaurs were added to the story, and a decision was fabricated to give the film a "soft, gentle" plot about five young dinosaurs working together as a group.^[3] Equally the concept was developed more, the idea of segregation between dinosaurs of different species was added in, and the moral of the story became that the young dinosaurs, who had been taught to avoid each other, would accept to expect by their differences and office together.^[three] Equally production on The Land Before Fourth dimension officially began in the summer of 1986, due to delays brought on by Amblin and Universal's concerns that their previous animated film, An American Tail might bomb, the story featured the main characters on a mission to detect a wise one-time dinosaur.^[3] Subsequently Sullivan Bluth Studios' motility to Republic of ireland delayed the movie's product once more, full production on the movie began in the spring of 1987.^[3]

As private parties in various locations were needed to review the script for the movie, sections of the script were reviewed at a fourth dimension, similarly to the old script reviewing methods the Walt Disney studios had followed decades earlier.^[3]

An early working title for the flick was "The Land Before Fourth dimension Began".^[4]

Developing the characters

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas originally wanted the motion picture to have no dialogue, like The Rite of Spring sequence in Fantasia, but the idea was abandoned in favor of using voice actors in social club to appeal to children.

Littlefoot was originally going to be called "Thunderfoot", until information technology was found out that there was a Triceratops in a children's book who already had that name.^[5] It was George Lucas's thought to make Cera a female Triceratops,^{[half dozen]} when she was in mid-blitheness every bit a male named Bambo.^{[3] [5]} Steven Spielburg's son, Max, suggested the voice of Digit, from An American Tail, for the character Petrie, which resulted in Will Ryan, who had voiced Digit, performing the vocalism of Petrie.^[3] In fact, Petrie was originally to have a whistle voice until it was later decided that he would instead have a talkative vox with broken lines.^[seven] The character of Spike was inspired by director Don Bluth's pet chowhound, Cubby.^[5]

Editing of the film

"It'south likewise scary. We'll have kids crying in the lobby, and a lot of aroused parents. You don't want that."

— Steven Spielberg, on the scenes from The Country Before Time which hitting the cutting room floor.[five]

Like Disney's The Black Cauldron and The Jungle Book, which were made years before, and Warner Bros./Zoetrope'south The Outsiders, which was made five years earlier, The Land Before Fourth dimension went nether a severe cutting and editing of footage. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas thought that some scenes in the movie would appear too frightening or could even cause psychological harm to young children.

Effectually ten minutes of footage, a total of xix fully blithe scenes, were cut from the terminal picture. The movie with all the scenes, many of which were completed, were approved until April or May of 1988, when many scenes were cutting. The original film with the cut scenes was confirmed past Gary Goldman to have a runtime of lxxx-82 minutes.^[2]

Only some of the cut footage consisted of the Tyrannosaurus rex set on sequence.^[2] There were too sequences of the five young dinosaurs in severe situations of peril and negative stress. The scene of Sharptooth landing on the back of Littlefoot'due south female parent was altered and then that information technology was only shown in shadow.

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Some early on VHS of the film have been said to have the original version of the scene, though this seems to have been proven imitation. A pre-release McDonalds VHS of the film was thought to have cut scenes, just this was also proven false.^[8] Don Bluth was unhappy with the cuts, and fought for all the footage, just in the end he had to settle on a final running time of 69 minutes, i of Don Bluth's shortest; in fact one of the shortest feature films ever produced (depending on how "feature film" is defined).^[3]

As of today, the original cut of the motion picture with the removed scenes has non been released on video or DVD and it is not known if the move footage still exists. Some stills practise exist, withal, including deleted Sharptooth scenes,^{[9] [ten]} stills from the original ending, Ducky making faces,^[eleven] and Spike being enticed with berries past Ducky, from a scene that was to accept included Cera arguing against Fasten coming with the group. A couple of these scenes did make it into the motion picture novelization, all the same, and others were in the picture books released with the original film. Many fans of The Land Before Time are trying to recover these scenes and add them into the movie once more. Supposedly, one tape that included the deleted scenes was sent to a Finnish company past fault, and was aired on their TV station. However, this has not been confirmed, and could possibly exist a rumor.

The Sharptooth, contesting with Littlefoot's Mother.

Some other part of the movie that was going to be eliminated was the death of Littlefoot'south female parent. However, it was idea that if the scene were removed information technology would simply produce problems in explaining why Littlefoot had to journey to the Great Valley lonely. In the finish, psychologists were shown the scene and gave feedback to the production team. The grapheme of Rooter was brought in to the story to soften the emotional blow, and teach Littlefoot and the audition that although loved ones may die, they are always with united states in the lessons nosotros have learned from them.^[3] Shortly after the information was released, a rumor was spread that all five of the young dinosaurs died, with the Neat Valley as an interpretation of heaven, as one of the deleted scenes. However, this has been denied by Don Bluth.

Littlefoot carrying Petrie

The film's catastrophe was also altered. The original version had Littlefoot finding the Nifty Valley on his own, afterward Cera and the remainder of the group go their ain way. He so goes to play in a waterfall under him, and then climb support information technology to find his friends. He would so have gone back to find the others and help them defeat Sharptooth, before they all entered the valley. Bear witness of this catastrophe remains in the scene of Littlefoot talking to his mother'south spirit later the decease of Sharptooth. The rock pushed onto Sharptooth'south head is still in that location in the background, on its ledge, because this scene was meant to appear before the death scene. There are as well a few production stills showing Littlefoot running downwards the path to the valley with Petrie on his caput, and the narration after he rejoins the others (stating that Cera was besides proud to admit she went the wrong way) makes more sense with the original catastrophe. The catastrophe was contradistinct later on the soundtrack was made, so the original catastrophe's music in its proper order can still be heard, including the cut parts.

"Now we'll always exist together."

This ending likewise appears in three children's books released along with the original film, "Friends in Need", "The Search for the Neat Valley", and "The Land Before Time: The Illustrated Story".

The original ending was also to end with Littlefoot saying "Now we'll always be together.", but that bit was cut from the final version (ending only with Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike hugging each other), although information technology can exist seen in the US Pizza Hut commercial promoting the pic's theatrical release and the Australian Pizza Hut commercial promoting the film's home video release. It is unknown equally to why this line was cut. It was possibly done to take away testify for the rumor of the Slap-up Valley being heaven.

At that place was a scene planned to exist included but cut before it was animated, where the gang happens on an oasis inhabited by a group of fatty "crown-heads" (Pachycephalosaurus/domeheads)

who tell the grouping that merely their ain kind can eat, and thin "greyness-noses"

(Saurolophus/bigmouths) who say only their own kind can drink. The ii species refuse to share food/water, even though both volition eventually die at the stop. This is when Cera realizes that judging others by their species is not the all-time affair to do. Ducky is told by the greyness-noses that she can drink considering she is like them, but the others cannot, so the group moves on to observe their own food. This scene appears in the book "Friends in Need" and "The Land Before Time: The Illustrated Story". In "Friends in Demand" the analogy is of the moving picture scene where the stand up of copse are eaten past the longnecks, only in the Illustrated Story it shows a painted picture of the scene (although non footage from the actual movie). This scene was presumably removed to tone downwards the racism aspect of the motion picture.

A scene from the theatrical trailer includes a curt scene where Sharptooth steps in front of Littlefoot and Cera, making swampy water fly everywhere when he steps. This is not in the terminal film; information technology tin just be seen in the trailer. It might be part of the xix seconds of the fight between Sharptooth and Mama Longneck that was cut. The fight may accept moved to the swamp at some signal. A scene of Ducky taunting Sharptooth past making faces in the water and him jumping next to her, and part of the scene afterwards the gang gets green-nutrient from the tree were also cut, although they tin also be seen the motion-picture show's theatrical trailer.

Some scenes with the characters in the movie screaming were revoiced with them having milder exclamations.^[3]

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A cel of Sharptooth ripping upwardly the expressionless tree.

An fastened cel of Littlefoot and Cera running from Sharptooth, every bit he rips up the expressionless tree.

A cel of the Berry Scene. Ducky is perhaps asking Littlefoot if Spike tin bring together them on their journey.

Ducky tries to lure Spike with berries.

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Littlefoot is excited to find the Great Valley on his ain (office of the original catastrophe)

Littlefoot plays in a waterfall (office of the original catastrophe)

Littlefoot turns back to save his friends (function of the original ending)

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A signed cel of Littlefoot, Cera and Spike turn around to see that Petrie is still alive.

A deleted cel of the Great Valley from the contrary side. Information technology is from one of the books, possibly "The Search For The Nifty Valley". The waterfall that Littlefoot played in is all the manner across.

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Script of the movie before the cuts

The cut scene in which Cera argues over taking Fasten with them

Some other cut scene in which Cera eats flowers and doesn't let Ducky have any. Information technology is unknown as to when this was to happen during the movie.

The crownhead named Clifford. This is likewise proof of the Oasis scene beingness in the movie

Haven scene connected

A cut scene of Littlefoot arguing with Cera

The scene where Littlefoot, Ducky, Petrie and Spike programme to kill Sharptooth, though most of the content of this image was cut as it tied to the original ending (such as Littlefoot explaining to them that they must impale Sharptooth before inbound the Valley)

A cut scene of Cera introducing Littlefoot to her father.

A cut moment at the very stop, possibly a shot later "Now we'll e'er be together", which also got cut too.

Ducky making faces at Sharptooth, which was cutting

This image is filled with unlike stills and scenes that were cutting from the final film.

Unused design for an adult Stegosaurus, reused in the early sequels

Reception

Box office

The film was a box office success, grossing $48 million, as well as chirapsia the Disney flick Oliver & Company for the #1 spot during its opening weekend. It brought in a box office full of most $50 million during its domestic release, slightly more than than Don Bluth'southward previous moving-picture show, An American Tail. Even so, it should exist noted that Oliver & Company did shell out The Country Earlier Time at the domestic box office past about $five million. The motion-picture show became a hit worldwide, and while Oliver had grossed over its domestic earnings, State grossed nearly $84 million worldwide, which the Disney film did not surpass.^[12] Attached to the film, Universal and Amblin issued Brad Bird'south Family Dog brusk from their boob tube anthology Amazing Stories.^[13]

Assay

Janet Maslin of the New York Times observed that Don Bluth seemed to take a trend for making his characters "overly-beautiful", but that it worked to the benefit in The Land Before Time.^[14] Wendy Miller of the Mohave Daily Miner described the characters as existence loveable, but not excessively syrupy. She found their personalities reminiscent of Kermit the Frog, The Cowardly King of beasts, and Lucy Van Pelt, besides said that their vocalism actors helped make the characters enjoyable, rather that "trite". She finished her review with "Between the convulsion and Littlefoot'south Mother dying, The Land Before Time gets off to a turbulent get-go. Afterward, however, it settles into a comfortable journeying by endearing characters. Information technology's a wonderful pic for the unabridged family." Her review was titled "Animated film lives up to promises".^[15] A review in the Movement Film Guide 1989 Annual notes that the motion-picture show "has been called a sort of prehistoric Bambi", and considers it to be more than in the style of a classic Disney film than the Disney movie Oliver and Company.^[16] Steve Rhode's of Internet Reviews called the pic his favourite of the Country Before Time series, adding that while he did not think it was made with the same amount of effort every bit a Disney film would likely have been, he believed the designs and the music, including the song "If We Hold On Together", were well made, describing them as possessing a "warm and natural dazzler".^[17]

Hal Hinson, of The Washington Post, said that the movie was entertaining, but non proficient plenty to exist considered a archetype moving picture. However, he praised information technology for not having the dinosaurs occasionally "pick upwardly guitars and launch into dinosaur renditions of stone songs", similar The Chipmunks and Care Bears.^[18]

Geoff Andrew of Time Out gave The Land Earlier Fourth dimension a vi out of ten rating, saying that he felt Don Bluth ought to have followed An American Tail with a more than audacious film. Andrew also suggested that the movie was not educational enough for kids, what with the dinosaurs non being referred to by their scientific names.^[19] The Sci-fi Movie Page rated it with 2 stars, and called it "not exactly much amend than nearly Sat morning kid tv shows." They also commented briefly on the "numerous" amount of straight-to-video sequels it spawned.^[20] In contrast, J.P. Harris wrote in his book, Capsule: Reviews of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films and TV Shows from 1987-1991, that the movie fabricated the Disney film Oliver and Visitor seem more than similar a Saturday morning show, and that The Land Before Time's plot was never padded. Harris also praised the animation, and the characters for beingness "distinct and adorable".^[21] M. Keith Booker, while noting that the film was a hit with children for its storyline, described the animation equally being "unremarkable".^[22] In Marking R. Leeper of the Cyberspace Movie Database's review of the motion picture, he writes "Apparently inspired by the art of William Stout, The Land Earlier Fourth dimension is brusque on label as well as screen time. The idea of doing a Disney-fashion cartoon with dinosaurs as characters was a skillful one, but The Land Before Time does not deliver enough. Rating: low +1."^[23] The movie got ii thumbs up by Siskel and Ebert,^[three] although Roger Ebert's review mentioned having a few issues with the film. Ebert believed The Land Earlier Time made a "strategic fault" in its attempt to concenter children, as he thought that the movie erases the distinction between children and dinosaurs (he earlier describes the two equally beingness very like). He besides thought The Land Before Time copied a lot of previous animated movies, and was not surprised that it was written past the writers of An American Tail. He also said the picture show was too apocalyptic and tragic, with the grapheme deaths and natural disasters, and the drought and famine featured in the film.^[24] Incidentally, Ebert mistook Littlefoot to be "the last of his species", when Pat Hingle, in the function of the movie's narrator, had identified Littlefoot as the last of his herd.

In his book, Children's Films: History, Ideology, Didactics, Theory, Ian Wojcik-Andrews criticized what he saw every bit allusions to Christian beliefs, in the film. He thought that Littlefoot was meant to depict the "Called i", in that he was the final of his herd, and their only hope for the time to come. He as well pointed out that the concept of Littlefoot leading Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike to the Great Valley was reminiscent of the Calvinist theology that souls tin but be saved if they follow Christ, and resist temptations that will lead them astray from the path. Finally, he believed the Peachy Valley was overly-like to the Garden of Eden.^[25]

Ratings

The Land Before Time received a seventy% "Fresh" rating from the critics at Rotten Tomatoes, while the film's fans gave it a college score of 78% "Certified Fresh".^[26] The motion-picture show has a current rating of 7.iii/10 at IMDB.com, based on 21,788 votes.^[27]

Awards/Nominations

In 1987, The Country Before Fourth dimension was nominated for a Immature Creative person Honor, for Best Family Blitheness or Fantasy Motion Flick, although it lost to Beetle Juice. ^[28] One yr afterwards, it received a Saturn laurels nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films in the United states, for Best Fantasy Motion-picture show. This award, notwithstanding, went to Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. ^[29]

Music

Songs

There is only i lyrical vocal in The Land Before Fourth dimension; called "If We Hold On Together". It was sung by Diana Ross, and became a striking.

Soundtrack

The Land Before Time Soundtrack was Composed past James Horner

1. "The Swell Migration"
2. "Sharptooth and the Earthquake" (19 seconds are cutting from the final picture)
3. "Whispering Winds" (A pocket-size chip at the end is cut from the final motion-picture show)
4. "If We Hold On Together" (Some is cut from the final motion picture)
5. "Foraging for Nutrient" (Some is rearranged and cut from the final flick)
6. "Journey of the Dinosaurs" (Not included in whatever offical soundtrack album release until 2020)
7. "Separating Paths" (Not included in any offical soundtrack album release until 2020, around 10 seconds were cut from the final picture)
8. "The Rescue/Discovery of the Keen Valley" (Heavily rearranged in the final motion picture, some parts were cut)
9. "Stop Credits" (The bulk of this rail is cut from the final film)

Cultural Influence

Merchandise

Sullivan/Bluth Studios teamed with the U.Due south. Postal Function, JC Penny'southward and Pizza Hut to help promote The State Before Time.^[3] At Pizza Hut, several manus puppets of the characters Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike and the Sharptooth were issued,^[30] and until the public promotions of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, nearly a twelvemonth later, the characters were used equally a feature at birthday parties held at the restaurants, and on the children's menus.^[3] The U.S. Postal service issued stamps featuring Dinosaur species used in the film, also equally T-shirts featuring the stamps and the character Littlefoot.^[iii]

On October 25, 1990, a soundtrack was released for The Land Earlier Time. It was the total soundtrack, and not the one from the final film that had cut and rearranged scenes.^[31]

The moving-picture show was offset domestically released on VHS and laserdisc on September xiv, 1989. Information technology was released on VHS once again on November 22, 1995, February 20, 1996, May 13, 1997 (in The State Before Fourth dimension Collection) and Oct 14, 1997. February twenty, 1996 also marked its final laserdisc release. It was get-go issued on DVD, with DTS, on November xviii, 1997. The Land Before Time was released on VHS once more in the Universal Family Features on December 1, 1998. It was reissued on DVD on May 4, 1998, and was reissued on VHS and DVD on December 3, 2003 both individually for its 15th anniversary and in the iv Movie Dino Pack (Volume 1) and the 9 Movie Dino Pack. This marked the moving picture's terminal release on VHS. It was subsequently released on DVD on March 20, 2007, in the two-Pack with Curious George, and on November 6, 2007, in the Animated Family Favorites iii-Movie Collection, together with An American Tail and Balto.^[32] The film made its first Digital debut on Google Play and Amazon Prime Instant Video in 2013. The 2003 DVD of the picture was reprinted again as a Happy Faces Edition (with Littlefoot on the front end cover) on February three, 2015. The motion picture was relased on Digital HD through Vudu on May 29, 2015. The film was released on DVD again (but, this fourth dimension, in widescreen for the beginning time outside of Hd channel airings and digital)^[33] and for the first fourth dimension always on Blu-ray (with digital HD)^[34] on October thirteen, 2015, making the new DVD its first widescreen debut on a Region i DVD and the second widescreen Region ane DVD release of a Land Before Time flick (the beginning beingness a 4-Movie Family Pack DVD containing widescreen releases of The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers and The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends). On June 14, 2016, all 14 films, including the original pic, were re-released in a complete collection DVD set up.^[35] Sometime in 2019, the 2015 DVD was repackaged in a double feature DVD prepare with another Universal motion-picture show We're Back! A Dinosaur'southward Story.^[36] On September 29, 2020, the 2015 DVD was as well repacked in a ten-pic drove DVD gear up with other Universal titles, including Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein, An American Tail, Balto, Curious George, Jetsons: The Motion-picture show, The Tale of Despereaux, and We're Dorsum! A Dinosaur's Story, and two DreamWorks Animation films Over the Hedge and Turbo.^[37]

In 2000, Marshmallow Alpha-Bits cereal boxes contained Littlefoot, Cera, and Fasten equally cereal marshmallows for a express time and a Marshmallow Alpha-Bits commercial featuring the main characters from The Country Before Time was broadcast on goggle box.^[38]

Sequels and spinoffs

Master articles: Listing of The Land Before Time movies and The State Before Time (TV series)

The Land Earlier Time generated 13 direct-to-video sequels, of which Don Bluth and his studio, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have no amalgamation. The sequels depart from the way of the original significantly by adding "sing-a-long" musical numbers akin to Disney'south animated films, using softer, more brightly-coloured animation (and in afterward years also including some shots in 3D animations), and toning down the intensity seen in the original picture, such as making the sharpteeth much more weak in comparison to the original Sharptooth, with one exception, and stopping about Leafage Eater deaths from happening.

A television series was originally released in North America in early 2007, which follows the style of the sequels in terms of the morality and the musical numbers (with some of the songs being shortened, reworked versions of songs from the sequels).

TV Airings

The moving-picture show aired on Disney Aqueduct from the 1990s to early-2005. And so information technology aired on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2004. The movie likewise aired on Cartoon Network from 1998 to Nov 2004. The flick finally aired on HBO from July 3, 2006 (being the moving-picture show'due south kickoff high-definition broadcast on HBO Hard disk drive) to December 2007, while it aired on Cinemax from December 2006 to 2007. It also aired on HBO Family around the same month equally its first HBO airing in 2006. And so the film once once again re-aired on Cartoon Network on February 25, 2008. The film re-aired on HBO on Jan 1, 2009, along with the HBO premiere of The Land Earlier Time 2: The Great Valley Adventure. Both of these films aired on HBO Family unit on Jan 4, 2009. Spacetoon aired that movie in the Eye East and North Africa as of March 10, 2011. In April of 2011 Starz and Encore had a concord of the movie for a twelvemonth. January New year's day 2015, HDNet Flick got a hold of the moving picture.

Usa

• Disney Channel (1990s-2005)
• Toon Disney (1998-2004)
• Cartoon Network (1998-2004, 2008)
• HBO (2006-2007, 2009-2010, 2018-2020)
• HBO Family (2006-2007, 2009-2010, 2018-2020)
• Cinemax (2006-2007)
• Starz (2011-2012, 2016, 2020-nowadays)
• HDNet Movies (Jan 2015)
• Sprout (February 2016)

Heart East and North Africa

• Spacetoon (2011–present)

References in media

• The 75th and 77th Academy Awards used James Horner's music from The Land Earlier Time.
• The webcomic xkcd refers to Littlefoot's Female parent's death in its 233rd issue.^[39]
• The 2000 Disney picture show Dinosaur bears a strikingly similar plot to The Land Before Time, featuring a multi-species herd working together in a search across a barren wilderness for a verdant valley safe from carnivores. This atomic number 82 to several controversies that Disney was ripping-off Don Bluth, since Don Bluth was an animator at Walt Disney Pictures.
• At the beginning of Beethoven'southward 3rd, VHS covers for the first five films in the Land Before Time film serial tin be seen in the groundwork of the video store. Incidentally, scenes from The State Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Stone are afterwards shown.
• The trailer for another Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment blithe picture show, Nosotros're Back! A Dinosaur'south Story contains function of the opening music score from The Land Earlier Time. The soundtracks for both We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story and The Country Earlier Time were equanimous by James Horner.^[forty]
• An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island contains some of James Horner'southward music score from The State Before Time and Michael Tavera's music scores from The Land Before Time 2: The Corking Valley Adventure and The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists.
• The first official theatrical trailer for the Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment alive-action/estimator-animated hybrid Casper contains function of the terminate credits music score from The Land Earlier Time. Both Casper and The Land Earlier Time were composed past James Horner.
• The video trailer for another Universal Pictures film Lorenzo's Oil contains James Horner's ending music score from The Land Before Time.
• In the Disney film Brother Bear, the character Tanana said the phrase "yep yep yes!". This may be a homage to The Land Before Time grapheme Ducky, who is noted for frequently using that line.
• On page 111 of Test-Prep Your IQ with the Essentials of Film by David Alan Herzog, a question is given concerning which of The State Before Time characters between Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike is not actually a dinosaur.^[41]
• The Land Before Time and its main characters are referenced in the "Throwback Trivia" in The Good Book for Great Times by Connor Pritchard and Dominic Russo. The question concerns naming three characters from the picture show.^[42]
• The title of The Land Earlier Time is referenced in the title of the first one-half of the Fairly OddParents episode "Country Before Timmy/Cheese and Crockers".
• The Country Before Time and its first twelve sequels are listed in Amusement Weekly'south "14 Movie Franchises We Think Should Finish".^[43] Another sequel was released in 2016.
• The Land Before Time is referenced on page 150 of Category Neutrality: A Type-Logical Investigation By Neal Whitman.^[44]
• On pages 194-195 of the novel In a Blood brother's Eyes by Aiken Dark-brown, the characters Brant and Tommy discuss getting a video of The Land Earlier Time for Brant's child, Brandon. Brant mentions Littlefoot as a good role model for the child.^[45]
• The Land Before Time is referenced on pages 256-257 of Donald Glut'southward 2001 book, Jurassic Classics: A Collection of Saurian Essays and Mesozoic Musings.^[46]
• In the 2008 moving-picture show Baghead, a video for The Country Earlier Time is seen on the shelf.
• The Play Station 2 game, "Dinosaur Adventure" ("Dinosaurs" in the identical Play Station 1 game) made by Dingo Pictures refers to The Land Before Time in the title screen of the game, where a crudely drawn "Littlefoot" and a Fasten/Cera hybrid are seen.
  • The "game" itself, actually an animated film packaged on a game disc, is often considered a knockoff, or "mockbuster" of The Land Earlier Time, featuring a plot that resembles both The Land Before Fourth dimension and Disney's Dinosaur, as well as containing characters with designs heavily referenced from the moving-picture show and its sequels, notably including characters heavily resembling Petrie and Chomper equally its main protagonists.
• In another dinosaur movie We're Back! A Dinosaur'south Story, Rex's natural prehistoric country is similar to Sharptooth. At this point in time many drawing versions of T. male monarch that extend exterior The Land Before Time franchise were based off the Don Bluth's blueprint and Rex was 1 in particular.
• The Country Earlier Fourth dimension is referenced in the title of Gravity Falls episode "Land Before Swine".
• In Bambi II, Bambi has a dream where he sees his female parent, where she states, "I'thousand e'er there for you, even if you can't come across me."
• The title of The Land Earlier Time is referenced again in the title of the Magic Schoolhouse Bus Rides Again episode "The Country Before Tim".
• Nevertheless some other title reference is on the Futurity Human being episode "The Land After Time".

Trivia

• This is the only movie in The State Before Fourth dimension series which is not a musical.
• Though Spike does not talk in the English language version of the film, he utters a unmarried line while climbing upwards the rocky mount side in the Finnish version; "ruokaa", which translates into English equally "food".
• Bill Erwin is credited as voicing Grandad Longneck, despite the character not speaking in the motion-picture show. He only chuckles at i point.
• It is unknown who voiced Grandma Longneck, though like her married man isn't heard speaking in the film. Both of them are only heard chuckling when their daughter gives Littlefoot his first treestar.
• This film is the first in which Littlefoot, Ducky and Cera cry.
• The character who alarmingly shouts "Sharptooth!" in his introductory scene differs across the original English version and the various international dubs of the film.
  • Cera screams "Sharptooth!" in English, Hungarian, Japanese, German language, and Chinese.
  • Littlefoot screams "Sharptooth!" in Canadian French, European French, Russian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, and Swedish.
• Every bit of July one, 2020, The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, this film, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-a-Doodle, and The Pebble and the Penguin are the only characteristic-length Don Bluth films not owned by The Walt Disney Company, although Disney still owns international rights for The Pebble and the Penguin under 20th Century Studios.
• With the running time of 69 minutes, this is Don Bluth'due south shortest feature-length pic in history and also Universal's shortest animated feature-length film.

Inaccuracies

• The dinosaurs featured existed in different time periods. Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus existed in the late Jurassic period, while Triceratops, Pteranodon, Saurolophus and Tyrannosaurus existed in the late Cretaceous period.
• Pteranodon ate fish and lived near beaches and coastal areas. It also did not have teeth, and was non able to climb trees.
• Tarpits did non class in the Mesozoic era; they formed in the Cenozoic era. Too, the tarpit shown in the film is portrayed as a giant pool of tar, whereas a real tarpit has a layer of water and sand.
• Littlefoot and the others steer clear of a Dimetrodon on the prowl, although Dimetrodon was extinct by the time the dinosaurs came into beingness.
• Grass is frequently seen in the pic, though information technology did non develop until the Cenozoic era. However, ancestors of grass have been constitute in fossilized Titanosaur dung.
• The main characters are shown hatching from their eggs in under a minute, whereas a young animal ordinarily takes several hours to hatch.
• Tyrannosaurus is not believed to have been able to jump the way Sharptooth is shown jumping in the picture show, though this may have been based on the Ceratosaurus jumping in a Ray Harryhausen and Willis OBrien film/documentary about animals, including dinosaurs, The Animal World (1956). Also, the Sharptooth is shown standing and walking upward directly, whereas modern paleontological thought dictates that Tyrannosaurus stood and walked with its body approximately parallel to the footing.
• Pachycephalosaurus was not an obligate carnivore, and did non take abrupt, Deinonychus-like claws on their feet.
  • The reason why the Pachycephalosaurus attack Cera could be either they were defending their territory, or merely harassing her for their own entertainment.

Goofs

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Littlefoot's lips don't move when he says "Cera, you came back!" while trying to push button the boulder onto the Sharptooth.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: Strangely, in the Sharptooth assault, Cera's screaming of a sudden cuts off when Sharptooth is scratching off from his eye being injured.
  • This may be due to the massive cut of that scene, and that the line may have been damaged due to the cuts.
• Continuity: The scene in which the baby Peteinosaurus fight over the cherry uses two backgrounds, one for the vertical pan, and some other for the horizontal. The 2 backgrounds do not match exactly; the heaven and the Peteinosaurus change colour, and a knothole in the bottom of the screen disappears so reappears.
  • This may be the result of a cut scene. The music gets louder in the soundtrack in this scene, that sounds like something jumped out and scared away the Peteinosaurus.
• Continuity: In the scene in which Ducky helps Fasten out of his egg, Spike is portrayed every bit existence about two or three times her size. When he emerges from his nest and devours it, he becomes virtually five or six times her size, and stays in this proportion for the residuum of the moving picture.
• Continuity: When Littlefoot and the gang settle to slumber on the Sharptooth footprint, and Cera joins them, she lies side by side to Littlefoot, who in plough is next to Spike. In the adjacent shot, Cera is in-between Spike and Littlefoot. (although cut scenes have shown an in between part where they motility positions slightly).
• Continuity: When Littlefoot and the gang run away upon waking to find that the Sharptooth is shut at paw, Petrie is on top of Littlefoot's head. After the gang encounter the crack, Littlefoot is shown without Petrie on his head. When Littlefoot enters the crevice, Petrie is back on his caput, simply when the Sharptooth breaks the crevice Petrie is not seen rolling down the hill with the gang. After the Sharptooth is seen with his muzzle stuck in the now enlarged crevice, Petrie reappears but in the adjacent shot, both Petrie and Ducky have disappeared.
• Continuity: Littlefoot, Cera and Fasten's eye colors ofttimes change throughout diverse scenes during the movie, and almost every bit suddenly return to normal.
• Continuity: Littlefoot'south treestar is much smaller when he retrieves it subsequently his mother'south death, than it was when she gave it to him.
• Continuity: Afterward the death of Sharptooth, Littlefoot is seen talking to his mother'due south spirit, saying he'll 'never find the Great Valley'. In the groundwork, the rock that was pushed onto Sharptooth tin can be seen nevertheless sitting on its ledge.
  • This is considering of the film's ending being changed while the animation was retained.
• Continuity: In the function when Ducky goes luring the Sharptooth, she is non-color. This happens to Littlefoot besides when a sunshine shines to Littlefoot in the ending that he finds Great Valley.
• Captioning fault: On many home media releases, the captions mistakenly transfer well-nigh of the characters' gasps as "Ohh!", despite briefly transfering i of Cera'southward gasps respectively past proverb "[GASP]" when she slides down a cliff during her third encounter with Littlefoot.
  • However, the captions correctly refer to the gasps respectively past saying "(GASPS)" on the 2015 DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Character Debuts

• Recurring characters:
  • Littlefoot
  • Cera
  • Ducky
  • Petrie
  • Fasten
  • Grandma and Granddad Longneck
  • Daddy Topps
  • Mama Swimmer
  • Ducky and Spike'due south Siblings
  • Papa Swimmer
  • Petrie's Female parent
  • Petrie's Siblings

• One-off characters
  • Cera'due south Mother
  • Cera'due south Siblings
  • Rooter
  • The original Sharptooth
  • Littlefoot'south Mother (deceased; is mentioned in later on films and appears in a flashback in The Smashing Longneck Migration it should be noted that in some scenes in the later films there is a longneck that usually appears alongside Grandma and Grandpa Longneck.)

• Species' Debuts:
  • Apatosaurus
  • Archelon
  • Compsognathus
  • Dimetrodon
  • Dimorphodon
  • Dinilysia (In the storyboard merely)
  • Diplodocus
  • Eryops
  • Megalochelys
  • Ornithomimus
  • Pachycephalosaurus
  • Parasaurolophus
  • Pentaceratops (In the poster but)
  • Proganochelys
  • Pteranodon
  • Pterodactylus
  • Saurolophus
  • Scolosaurus
  • Stegosaurus
  • Triceratops
  • Tyrannosaurus
  • Velociraptor

Memorable Quotes

Littlefoot

• (Arriving in the Keen Valley) We did it. We did it together.
• (Afterward fighting with Cera) Keep! Become the wrong way! We never wanted y'all with us anyway!
• (The others have collapsed from exhaustion) Oh, you lot can't quit now. What if the Slap-up Valley's just over the top of these rocks?
• (Last original lines) Now we'll always be together. (Notation: This line was removed from the unabridged film, although information technology was used in the Pizza Hut commercial advertizement the Land Before Time handpuppets.^[47])

Cera

• (Later on Littlefoot insists that Sharptooth is expressionless) My father told me that flatheads had very small brains.
• (Littlefoot offers to share some of the leaves he and the others have obtained, with Cera) I tin can find my own green food! (Cera struggles to knock the leaves off of a tree. Littlefoot drops some from the remainder of the group'due south stash, while making it look every bit though Cera knocked them down herself) See? I tin have care of myself all past myself. I'chiliad not afraid to be lone, I know my way to become, and I'm not afraid of Sharptooth... I hope he doesn't consume whatever of you!
• (Describing a fabricated version of her underground run across with Sharptooth, to the others) I could encounter his 1, big, ugly eye looking for me.

Ducky

• (Repeated line) Yep yeah aye.
• (Trying to coax Fasten out of his egg) You should come up out. You should. Y'all are late. Yes, you are. Yep yeah aye.
• (Helping Fasten to hatch from his egg) You are a spiketail...so we will call yous Fasten!
• (Petrie rejects the idea of trying to fly upwards to grab leaves from a tree) Petrie, practice not feel sad. It is alright. Many things cannot fly. Rocks, trees, sticks, Spike...
• (to Petrie) Up Petrie! Higher! Higher like a flyer!
• Spike, exercise not stop! We must stay together!

Petrie

• (Perched on Littlefoot's head) You've got a nice apartment caput, flathead.
• (As Littlefoot, Ducky and Fasten come to save him from the tar pit) Flathead! Ducky! Spike! Oh, Petrie is then happy!
• (Trying to smell for greenish food) I smell, I odor, I odour... Hmm. Ducky.

Littlefoot's Mother

• (Terminal words) Littlefoot, let your heart guide you. It whispers so listen closely.
• (Littlefoot questions how she knows the Great Valley exists, if she'southward never been there) Some things you see with your eyes, others you see with your heart.

Daddy Topps

• (Stopping Cera and Littlefoot in their game) Come up, Cera, Threehorns never play with Longnecks.

Rooter

• (Consoling Littlefoot over his female parent's contempo expiry) The Cracking Circle of Life has begun, simply, you see, not all of united states of america go far together at the finish.

Narrator

• One herd had just a unmarried babe - the final hope for the future. And they called him...Littlefoot.
• All that remained of his herd was his female parent, grandmother and grandfather. He knew them past sight, by scent, and by their love. He knew they would be together, always.
• At first, Littlefoot could only think virtually his mother. He hardly noticed his hunger and had forgotten about the Peachy Valley and that he must somehow reach information technology.
• Then Littlefoot knew for sure he was alone, and although the Not bad Valley was far abroad, the journey in that location was perilous. He would have to discover his way, or the chain of life would be broken.
• So the five hungry dinosaurs set off for the Great Valley. In that location had never been such a herd before. A longneck, a threehorn, a bigmouth, a flyer and a spike-tail all together, all knowing that if they lost their way, they would starve or detect themselves in Sharptooth's shadow.
• Littlefoot had been wrong virtually the Sharptooth, but the others followed him. Their only hope was to reach the Great Valley, and Littlefoot solitary knew the way.
• Cera was still too proud to admit that she'd gone the wrong way. [Cera cries]
• Though, they were sourced out and tired, Littlefoot urged them on. He'd never seen the Cracking Valley, but his center told him that they were close. Surely, at the top, they'd behold it, finally.
• And Littlefoot found his grandmother and grandfather at last. The same loving faces he looked into on the mean solar day of his birth.
• (concluding released lines) And they all grew up together in the valley, generation upon generation, each passing on to the next. The tale of their antecedent's journey to the valley long agone.

Gallery

The Title Card. Note the different font used.

Some dinosaurs wander through a hellish mural

First appearance of Littlefoot's Family unit

Second theatrical affiche

Poster by Patrick Connan

Poster by Mick Cassidy

1989 Laserdisc cover #1

1989 Laserdisc cover #2

2015 Blu-ray cover

Double characteristic cover

Concept art

References

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2. ↑ ^{ii.0 ii.one ii.2 two.3} Reply to e-mail sent to Mark Pudleiner most cut scenes: http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/alphabetize.php?showtopic=16016&view=findpost&p=40015439
3. ↑ ^{3.00 iii.01 iii.02 iii.03 three.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 three.09 iii.10 3.11 3.12 three.13 3.14 3.15} The Animated Films of Don Bluth
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External links

• The Land Earlier Time at RetroJunk.com
• Soundtrack audio clips
• The original 1988 TV trailer for The Land Before Time
• The fourth dimension before sequels Amanda Green; Dallas Moving picture Examiner.
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The Land Before Fourth dimension
The Land Before Time films
The Land Before Fourth dimension • The Land Earlier Time Two: The Great Valley Risk • The State Before Time Iii: The Fourth dimension of the Cracking Giving • The State Earlier Time IV: Journey Through the Mists • The Land Before Fourth dimension V: The Mysterious Island • The Country Before Time Vi: The Cloak-and-dagger of Saurus Rock • The Land Before Time VII: The Rock of Cold Fire • The Country Before Fourth dimension VIII: The Large Freeze • The Land Before Time Nine: Journey to Big Water • The Land Before Fourth dimension X: The Great Longneck Migration • The Land Before Time 11: Invasion of the Tinysauruses • The Land Before Fourth dimension XII: The Great Day of the Flyers • The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends • The State Before Fourth dimension XIV: Journey of the Brave
The State Before Fourth dimension television series
Season One
The Cave of Many Voices • The Mysterious Tooth Crisis • The Star Twenty-four hours Commemoration • The Coulee of Shiny Stones • The Great Log Running Game • The Brave Longneck Scheme • The Meadow of Jumping Waters • The Days of Rising Waters • Escape From The Mysterious Beyond • The Subconscious Canyon • The Legend of the Story Speakers • The Vivid Circle Commemoration • The Alone Journey • The Missing Fast-Water Adventure • The Spooky Nighttime Adventure • The Lonely Dinosaur Returns • Stranger From the Mysterious Above • The Forbidden Friendship • The Amazing Threehorn Girl • The Big Longneck Test • The Hermit of Blackness Rock • "Render to Hanging Rock" • March of the Sand Creepers • Search for the Sky Color Stones • Through the Eyes of a Spiketail • The Great Egg Take chances

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