One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing is a 1975 comedy film set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution Company. The title is a parody of the film title One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, in which both Peter Ustinov and Hugh Burden also appeared. The film was based on the 1970 novel The Great Dinosaur Robbery by David Forrest. It was the last work of producer and screenwriter Bill Walsh before his death on January 27, 1975, almost six months before the film's release.
Theatrical release poster
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road.
Front façade of the museum in January 2006
An 1881 plan showing the original arrangement of the museum. (Link to current floor plans).
The Natural History Museum, shown in wide-angle view here, has an ornate terracotta facade by Gibbs and Canning typical of high Victorian architecture. The terracotta mouldings represent the past and present diversity of nature.
The Comic News reporting on the movement to South Kensington in 1863
