Baby - Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1985
Running Times: 95 mins
Format: Technicolor     35mm     Super Techniscope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Walt Disney Pictures / Silver Screen Partners II / Touchstone Pictures
Executive Producer: Roger Spottiswoode
Producer: Jonathan T. Taplin
Associate Producer / Unit Production Manager: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Production Supervisor: Alexander De Grunwald
Production Coordinator: Chip Fowler

SCRIPT
Script: Clifford Green, Ellen Green

DIRECTION
Director: Bill L. Norton
2nd Unit Director (UK): Egil S. Woxholt
1st Assistant Director (USA): Steve McEveety
Assistant Director (UK): Augustin Dahouat-Boigny
2nd Assistant Director (USA): Craig Beaudine
2nd Assistant Director (UK): Steve Harding
2nd Unit Assistant Directors (UK): Jeannot Banny, Lee Cleary

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: John Alcott
Camera Operators: Jamie Anderson, Salvador Gil
1st Assistant Camera: Dana Christiaansen
1st Assistant Camera (UK): Julio M. Leiva
2nd Unit 1st Assistant Camera: Ian Smith
Clapper Loader (UK): Paul Kenward
Gaffer: Lou Bogue
Best Boy: Glen Parsons
2nd Unit Best Boy: Tim O'Connell
Grip: Jimmy Walters
2nd Unit Grip: Ray Hall
Still: Graham Attwood
Camera Maintenance: Nobby Godden

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Howard Smith, David Bretherton
Assistant Editor: Mark Eggenweiler
Post-Production Coordinator: Horace Bishof

MUSIC
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Orchestrator: Arthur Morton
Music Supervisor: Jay Lawton
Music Scoring Mixer: Shawn Murphy
Music Editor: Ken Hall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Robert Hathaway
Dinosaur Voice Creators: Mark A. Mangini, George Budd
Production Sound Mixer: Kirk Francis
Boom Operator (UK): Mike Tucker
Re-Recording Mixers: Frank Regula, Nick Alphin, Richard Portman
Sound Editors: Colin C. Mouat, David Horton, Donald L. Warner Jr, George Fredrick, George Probert, James J. Isaacs, Roger Sword
ADR Editor: Al Maguire
Foley Artists: Paul Holzborn, Wayne Allwine

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up (USA): Robert J. Schiffer
Make Up (UK): Kevin Board, Maureen Stephenson
Hair (UK): Karen Dawson
Costume Department Supervisor (USA): Jack Sandeen
Costume Supervisor (USA): Susie S. McEveety
Sean Young's Wardrobe: Bill Kaiserman
Costumers (UK): Paddy Sharkey, Sally Downing

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Roland Tantin
Dinosaur Creators / Engineers: Isidoro Raponi, Roland Tantin
Dinosaur Technicians: Gary D'Amico, Jeff Karpe, Kenneth C. Clark, Paul Vigil, Philip Bartko, Steve Debs, Willard Livingston
Dinosaur Body Motion: Jerrol Gower, Paula Crist, Richard Aguirre, Terri Girvin
Miniature Consultant: Paul Houston
Mechanical Effects: David Domeyer, Hans Metz, Joe Digaetano, John Parker, Mike Reedy, Richard Hill

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: John B. Mansbridge, Raymond G. Storey
Art Director: Steve Spence
Set Decorator: Julie Graysmark, Roger M. Shook
Property Master (USA): Wilbur 'Rusty' Russell
Property Master (UK): Johnny Graham
Production Illustrator: John L. Jensen

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor (USA): Joanie Blum
Continuity: Lyn Norton
Assistant To Producer: Anastasia St. Amand
Marketing Consultant: Craig Miller (uncredited)
Production Consultant: Gladys Pearce
Production Liaison: Mike Schilz

LOCATIONS
Locations: Côte D'Ivoire, Africa

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Dickey Beer
Stunts: Andy Bradford, Andy Epper, Gareth Milne, Graeme Crowther, J. Mark Donaldson, Jim Dowdall, Kirk Elam, Melvin Jones, Natasha Bauman, Tracey Eddon
Aircraft Effects Pilot: W. Daniel 'Danny' Don

CASTING
Casting: Rose Tobias Shaw, Bill Shepard

CAST
William Katt (George Loomis)
Sean Young (Susan Matthews-Loomis)
Patrick McGoohan (Doctor Eric Kiviat)
Julian Fellowes (Nigel Jenkins)
Kyalo Mativo (Cephu)
Hugh Quarshie (Kenge Obe)
Olu Jacobs (Colonel Nsogbu)
Eddie Tagoe (Sergeant Gambwe)
Edward Hardwicke (Dr Pierre Dubois)
Julian Curry (Etienne)
Alexis Meless (guide)
Susie Nottingham (Baki, the laboratory assistant)
Stephane Krora (port captain)
Anthony Sarfoh (village chief)
Jeannot Banny (killed soldier)
Roger Carlton (old African)
Therese Taba (colleague)

A husband and wife palaeontologist team discover a family of brontosaurs alive and well in a West African jungle. But a villanous rival has his own plans for the dinosaurs and race is on to get the creatures to safety before they can be captured and exploited for financial gain.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Touchstone

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures
Video Distributor: Touchstone
Laserdisc Distributor: Touchstone

Australia
Rating: PG

Finland
Rating: K-12

Sweden
Rating: 11

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: PG

1985
August
2: Finland - theatrical release

Baby
Baby - Das Geheimnis einer verlorenen Legende - German title
Baby - Ha-Agada Sh'Uvda - Israeli title
Baby, il segreto della leggenda perduta - Italian title
Baby - Jungelens hemmelighet - Norwegian title
Baby - kadonneen legendan arvoitus - Finnish title
Baby - O Segredo da Floresta Perdida - Portugese title
Dinosaur... Secret of the Lost Legend - TV title

MAGAZINES

Dark Side December / January 1994 pp.33-34
credits, review

BOOKS

Creature Features Strikes Again p.31
credits, review

Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide p.113
credits, review

Variety Movie Guide p.30
review

dinosaurs, expeditions, jungles, military, palaeontologists, prehistory, scientists

Last Updated: 19 October, 2008