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The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated fantasy film produced and directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name (1979) by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George (1976) by Gordon R. Dickson. [1]
The Flight of Dragons: 1982 Topcraft: Traditional [30] The Coneheads [d] 1983 Al Franken Tom Davis: Bernard Hoffer [31] The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus [e] 1985 Julian P. Gardner: Pacific Animation Corporation: Stop-motion [32] The Wind in the Willows [f] 1987 Romeo Muller: Maury Laws: Cuckoo's Nest: Traditional [33] Santa, Baby! 2001 ...
According to Dickinson's hypothesis, the chief obstacle to admitting the past existence of dragons is the difficulty of powered flight by such a large organism. To resolve this, he introduces a dirigible-like structure in which hydrochloric acid would dissolve large amounts of rapidly growing bone, releasing massive amounts of hydrogen that, once aloft, would support the body above the ground.
In 1982, Rankin/Bass Productions released The Flight of Dragons, a made-for-TV animated film, aspects of which were based on Dickinson's book. The character design in the film bears a resemblance to the illustrations in the book. However, the novel The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson was the inspiration for the film's plot. One of ...
The Dragon and the George is a 1976 fantasy novel by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, the first in his "Dragon Knight" series.A shorter form of the story was previously published as the short story, "St. Dragon and the George" in the September 1957 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Rocheworld (first published in serial form in 1982; first book publication, under the title The Flight of the Dragonfly, 1984) [1] is a science fiction novel by Robert Forward which depicts a realistic interstellar mission using a laser driven light sail propulsion system to send the spaceship and a crew of 20 on a one-way journey of 5.9 light-years (ca. 34 trillion miles; ca. 56 trillion km ...
The Flight of Dragons: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. United States: Animated film, fantasy adventure [92] Flight of the Eagle: Jan Troell: Max von Sydow, Göran Stangertz, Sverre Anker Ousdal: Sweden Norway West Germany [93] Hunters of the Golden Cobra: Antonio Margheriti: David Warbeck, Almanta Suska, Luciano Pigozzi, John Steiner: Italy [94 ...
Flight: (1929, 2009, 2012 & 2021) Flight 93 (2006) (TV) Flight from Folly (1945) The Flight of Dragons (1982) Flight of the Intruder (1991) Flight of the Living Dead (2008) Flight to Mars (1951) Flight of the Navigator (1986) The Flight of the Phoenix: (1965 & 2004) Flight of the Raven (1984) Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) Flight of the Red ...