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This pilot convinced Jana Bennett, the BBC's Director of Television, to commission what was to become the most expensive factual series of all time. Haines did some basic location filming with a cameraman and working with Mike Milne, Director of Computer Animation at FrameStore, to bring his actions to life. Interested in the project, the BBC provided Haines with the money to make a six-minute pilot to investigate whether his claims were practical. He convinced the BBC that it was possible to make a dinosaur documentary programme on a television budget. The series of six 30-minute episodes was conceived by Tim Haines, who later founded his own company called Impossible Pictures. Walking with Dinosaurs was the first truly successful attempt to realistically bring dinosaurs to life in everyone's homes all around the world. Inspired by the massive success of Jurassic Park, the series combined state-of-the-art computer animation with the style of award-winning documentaries made by the BBC Natural History Unit 1.Įver since the first statues of dinosaurs were made for Crystal Palace Park, people have been trying to see what dinosaurs looked like and how they interacted with their landscape. Not only did the show receive colossal viewing figures, to date it has led to numerous sequels, merchandising, books, a full-scale touring stage show and film, and changed the way documentaries were made forever.
Walking With Dinosaurs is the most successful television documentary series of all time.