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CABAZON, CA - JULY 01: A roadside attraction dinosaur towers over the desert near the San Andreas Fault on July 1, 2006 in Cabazon, California. Scientists have warned that after more than 300 years with very little slippage, the southern end of the 800-mile-long San Andreas fault north and east of Los Angeles has built up immense pressure and could produce a massive earthquake at any time. Such a quake could produce a sudden lateral movement of 23 to 32 feet which would be would be among the largest ever recorded. By comparison, the 1906 earthquake at the northern end of the fault destroyed San Francisco with a movement of no more than about 21 feet. Experts have concluded that a quake of magnitude-7.6 or greater on the lower San Andreas could kill thousands of people in the Los Angeles area with damages running into the tens of billions of dollars. The San Andreas Fault is where the Pacific and the North American tectonic plates of the Earth's crust collide. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Dinosaurs have been roaming the movie screens ever since film has lived. And the Cine-Saurus exhibit at the Fullerton Museum shows how Hollywood was actually intent on depicting dinosaurs properly.
“The people involved in making dinosaurs movies wanted to do them as accurately as possible, so they followed the artwork by Charles Knight, who translated the science into artwork,” said curator Stephen Czerkas.
Czerkas spent the first half of his career in stop action motion picture work and the second part as a paleontologist, so he has the perfect background to curate a show about both. He has a love of the industry and the history.
“For most people, what they think of as dinosaurs comes from the motion pictures,” Zirca said. And Hollywood is interested each time a new scientific discovery about dinosaurs is found.
The exhibit follows dinosaur transformation over the years through artistic portrayal and advances in scientific information and technology. It boasts movie memorabilia, posters and models from Czerkas world-famous collection.
The exhibit is open until April 4, 2010.
