Jurassic Park

Before the film, join us for a Science on Screen presentation on 'Can You Dig It?: Recent Advances in Dinosaur Science' with paleontologist Dr. Ted Daeschler PhD, retired Curator and Professor at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.

This action-packed blockbuster is director Steven Spielberg at his big-screen best. A new theme park is unveiled, where visitors can observe dinosaurs created by 'advanced DNA cloning,' but then the dinosaurs escape, forcing everyone to run for their lives. JURASSIC PARK broke new ground with awe-inspiring special effects and life-like animatronics. Presented in a new restoration.

Science on Screen® is supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with additional support from Rubin Anders Scientific, and Ken Loveday and Ellen Hoffman, Brookline. Many thanks to our series founder Richard Anders. Co-presented by the Museum of Science.

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About the Speaker: Dr. Ted Daeschler recently retired as Curator and Professor at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Ted studied geology at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and received a Masters in paleontology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. He was awarded his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.Ted’s responsibilities at the Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel University focused primarily on research, teaching, collections care and public programs. His research interests center on Late Devonian-age fossils and the origin of limbed vertebrates and include ground-breaking work on Devonian-age rocks in Pennsylvania, Arctic Canadian and Antarctica. He served as a scientific advisor for the renovation of the Academy’s Dinosaur Hall and taught a course annually at Drexel entitled Dinosaurs and Their World.

Director Steven Spielberg

Cast Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum

Country USA

Language English

Aspect 1.85

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