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Fictional work taking place in the distant past, before civilization or recorded history, and concentrating on showing living creatures long since extinct. Despite sometimes conflating the chronology of evolution, events are treated as factual, not fantasy (that is, without supernatural or magical elements). Plots frequently show cavemen fighting rival tribes as well as dinosaurs or early giant mammals. Alternatively, modern humans find prehistoric life, still surviving in an isolated "lost world" in one of the Earth's remote regions; they must then learn to survive amidst these conditions and escape. Film examples: CESTA DO PRAVEKU / JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME / VOYAGE TO PREHISTORY (with Children's); CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR (with Adaptation); GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (with the form animation); JURASSIC PARK (with Science fiction; Adaptation); THE LAND BEFORE TIME (with the form Animation); THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (with Adaptation); THE LAND UNKNOWN; THE LOST WORLD (with Adaptation); MISSING LINK; ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.; TWO LOST WORLDS; THE VALLEY OF GWANGI; VALLEY OF THE DRAGONS / PREHISTORIC VALLEY (with Adaptation); WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH. TV examples: DINOSAURS (with Domestic comedy); THE FLINTSTONES (with the form Animation); IT'S ABOUT TIME (with Situation comedy); LAND OF THE LOST.

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