Cowboys vs dinosaurs: peace through perspective

When I was growing up, cowboys fought dinosaurs.

This was in the distant past, before streaming, before cable and even before VHS, in the days when entertainment meant Sunday afternoon films round my grandparents’ house, on the big telly which took forever to warm up and which made everyone look orange.

In those days, even though there were only three channels to fill, the schedule was full of repeats, and we seemed to see the same films over and over again. In particular, I am sure that I saw the film Valley of Gwangi several times.

This film is a bit of an oddity. My grandfather and I watched plenty of Westerns together, but this is the only one where members of a traveling show enter a hidden valley to capture dinosaurs and put them on display. It doesn’t end well.