How the Earth Was Made

Name: How the Earth Was Made
Director: Peter Chinn
Released: 2007
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Edward Herrmann, Geoffrey Boulton, Gary Stevens, Dan Durda, Martin Van Kranendonk

2007 · 90 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 626 VOTES · DIR. Peter Chinn

Overview

A brief account of the Earth's geological progression, from its creation 4.6 billion years ago to scientists' predictions of its demise more than 2.5 billion years in the future.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,581 lines

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00:00:05 male narrator: Planet Earth is unique

00:04:05 in the unusual formation he discovered.

00:08:22 After Holmes

00:12:00 narrator: Gradual erosion along the trickling creek

00:15:19 but wherever the water came from

00:19:27 The mixture of superheated water and basaltic lava

00:23:14 of Playford's findings.

00:27:30 Mark McMenamin is an expert in plate tectonics

00:31:29 during World War ll.

00:35:28 thousands of miles.

00:39:30 had almost been wiped out.

00:43:06 the celebrated Burgess Shale quarry.

00:47:11 a modern analogue, or an environment

00:51:36 were about to experience a hell on Earth.

00:55:44 Absolutely brilliant, Marvin. Nice job.

01:00:00 have been excavated

01:03:56 were about to be wiped from the face of the planet.

01:07:45 whole temples have been carved into their layers.

01:11:29 One process that is doing this

01:15:25 in combination with dramatic uplifting

01:19:21 narrator: Finnur is keeping tabs on the growth of the glacier.

01:23:20 and buried Manhattan under a huge depth of ice.

01:27:09 over the next couple of centuries

40:50:07 that grew in dense groves

Cast & Characters

Edward Herrmann Self - Narrator Geoffrey Boulton Self - Geologist, University of Edinburgh Gary Stevens Self - Geologist, Stellenbosch University Dan Durda Self - Impact Scientist, Southwest Research Institute Martin Van Kranendonk Self - Geological Survey of Western Australia Mark A.S. McMenamin Self - Geologist, Mount Holyoke College Páll Einarsson Self - Seismologist, University of Iceland Paul McNeil Self - Paleontoligist, University of Calgary Frederick Rich Self - Geologist, Georgia Southern University Reese Barrick Self - Paleontologist, The College of Eastern Utah

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,581

Dialogue density17.6 lines / min

First line00:00:05

Final line40:50:07

Production Record

DirectorPeter Chinn

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes626