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watch an animated film who show us the full story that happens during Mesozoic Era, also called the time of reptiles, in a land dominated by dinosaurs
Intro lines
NARRATOR: Once upon this same earth, beneath this same sun, long before you before the ape and the elephant as well, before the wolf, the bison, the whale,
 before the mammoth and the mastodon in the time of the dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs were of two kinds. Some had flat teeth and ate the leaves of trees. Some had sharp teeth for eating meat. They preyed upon the leaf-eaters. Then leaves began to die. The mighty beasts, who appeared to rule earth, were ruled, in truth, by the leaf. Desperate for food, some dinosaur herds struck out toward the west, some dinosaur herds struck out toward the west,
 searching for their Great Valley, a land still lush and green.
It was a journey toward life. It was a march of many dangers. Sharpteeth stalked the herds, waiting to seize any who strayed. The leaf-eaters stopped only
to hatch their young.
Full quotes with suitable pics
DUCKY: Ha. Aah. Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha. Mama.
DADDY TOPPS: Hmm. Mmm.
NARRATOR:
 Some of the young seemed born without fear.
CERA: Aah!
NARRATOR: Yet even hatching could be dangerous. One herd had only a single baby, their last hope for the future.
LITTLEFOOT: Ha ha ha.
NARRATOR: And they called him Littlefoot.
MOTHER: Here I am.
LITTLEFOOT: Aw. Ha ha ha.
MOTHER: Don't be frightened. Come out.
LITTLEFOOT: Mmm.
MOTHER: Ha ha ha.
NARRATOR: All that remained of his herd was his mother, grandmother and his grandfather.
 He knew them by sight, by scent and by their love.
He knew they would be together always.
MOTHER: Now, you be careful, my Littlefoot.
LITTLEFOOT: Ahh.
GRANDFATHER: Heh heh heh.
LITTLEFOOT: Aah.
MOTHER: Beautiful Littlefoot.
LITTLEFOOT: Mother, is this all there is to eat?
MOTHER: I'm sorry, my dear. The land has been changing. That is why we must walk as far as we can each day until we reach the Great Valley. Littlefoot, quickly, come here. Look, up there. A tree star. It is very special.
LITTLEFOOT: A tree star.
MOTHER:
 It is very special. It'll help you grow strong.
Where we are going, there are so many of these leaves. Come along.
GRANDFATHER: Ha ha ha.
MOTHER: The valley is filled with green food, more than you could ever eat and more cool water than you could ever drink. It's a wonderful, beautiful place, where we'll live happily with many more of our own kind.
LITTLEFOOT: When will we arrive?
MOTHER: The bright circle must pass over many times. We must follow it to where it touches the ground.
LITTLEFOOT: Have you ever seen the Great Valley?
MOTHER: No.
LITTLEFOOT: Well, how do you know it's really there?
MOTHER: Some things you see with your eyes, others you see with your heart.
LITTLEFOOT: I don't understand, Mother. MOTHER: You will, my son. You will. Littlefoot, don't you wander too far. LITTLEFOOT: Hey! Ha ha ha! NOTE: to watch in high resolution, click on them Pictures of characters from The Land Before Time |
 Littlefoot, a young "Longneck" Apatosaurus [one of the more common sauropods] |
 Cera, a Triceratops [one of the last ceratopsian genera to appear before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event] |
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 Ducky, a young "Bigmouth Swimmer" [Saurolophus, a spike-like crest which projects up and back from the skull] |
 Spike, a Stegosaurus [a heavily rounded back, short forelimbs, head held low to the ground and a stiffened tail held high in the air] |
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 Petrie, a "Flyer" [Pteranodon, largest known flying reptiles with nearly complete skulls and articulated skeletons] |
 Sharptooth, a Tyrannosaurus [one of the largest known land predators] |
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 Littlefoot's mother, gigantic sauropod dinosaurs [a large, long-necked animal with a long, whip-like tail] |
 Daddy Topps, Cera's father [herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur; the most distinctive feature is their large skull, among the largest of all land animals] |
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 Rooter, ankylosaurid dinosaur [had heavy armour and a club on its tail] |
 Grandfather, sauropod dinosaur [one of the largest land animals known to have ever existed] |
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Trivia
When the film was first released on video, there was also a commercial for Pizza Hut which played before the movie started.
Also you can watch sequels of the film: The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure (1994), The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995), and The Land Before Time IX: Journey to the Big Water.
Littlefoot was originally going to be called 'Thunderfoot', but a triceratops from a children's book already had that name.
Production During production of An American Tail (1986), talk began of the next feature with Steven Spielberg who wanted to do a film similar to Bambi (1942), but only with dinosaurs. An early working title for the film was The Land Before Time Began. Spielberg and George Lucas originally wanted the film to have no dialogue, like The Rite of Spring sequence in Fantasia (1940), but the idea was abandoned in favor of using voice actors in order to make it appealing to children. Cast as voices Gabriel Damon as Littlefoot; Candace Hutson as Cera; Judith Barsi as Ducky; Will Ryan as Petrie; Helen Shaver as Littlefoot's mother; Burke Byrnes as Cera's father; Bill Erwin as Littlefoot's grandfather; Pat Hingle as Narrator and Rooter; Diana Ross as The Balladeer; Frank Welker as Spike,The Sharptooth,Domeheads Gang. Soundtrack was composed by James Horner. The Land Before Time track listing: "The Great Migration", "Sharptooth and the Earthquake", "Whispering Winds", "If We Hold on Together" (sung by Diana Ross), "Foraging for Food", "The Rescue/Discovery of the Great Valley", "End Credits". Watch other parts of movie |
 The Land Before Time (1988) |
 2 Three horns never play with long necks |
 3 Let your heart guide you |
 4 Going to find my own kind |
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 5 Flathead and Sharptooth |
 6 Smell a green food |
 7 Going the right way |
 8 Together in the Great Valley |