Nothing much else to say about it except hello to Jenny, I guess.

 

I'll be releasing the chapters of this story over the next few days:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12525665/1/The...on-Ever-Written

He's the author of the illustrated story book. He might know something about the cut scenes. Can someone send him a letter? His address is online.

Why am I writing this? Because I can!
I don't really feel like posting the whole thing here, but it can be easily found on the JP legacy forum. I might put up a link here, if I'm allowed.

So I've written a letter to James Horner, and he hasn't responded yet, but I hope to glean some information re the cut scenes. I'm also going to send one to Jim Razzi (author of the books) to see if he knows anything whatsoever. Maybe we should all get together and try to contact every person involved with the film that we can find. I'm sure some previous animators or sound crew would have interesting info . . .

So how does this make sense?
"Some things you see with your eyes. Others, you see with your heart."
So how does a dinosaur know what a heart is and coincidentally use it to represent love like humans. If they were just feeling it in their chest, wouldn't it be called a "pulsating mass" or a "chest thunder" or whatever?
Also, treestars are shaped like human drawing of stars. Wouldn't dinosaurs just see dots?
And then there's stuff like Cera->Triceratops.
These aren't major problems. It's just interesting to analyze why a heart is a heart but a volcano is a burning mountain. Obviously, it was for scriptwriting purposes.

So most of TLBT's OST is on the cd, but Spike's birth scene to Cera and Littlefoot's fight scene don't have an official recording. I noticed that some of the music during the tree scene doesn't quite seem to gel with the animation (I think we can all guess why), but here's the catch; it might be in one of the sequels. Yes, they blatantly reuse music in the sequels. Example; TLBT 2 uses Sharptooth's fight music for the lava scene. Anyway, if we can find this, it could give us clues about the orchestrations of Spike's birth, minor cut scenes during the tree sequence, and even . . .

*conthpeerathy time guyths*

The oasis scene.

So one of my bookie-poos mentions that the oasis scene took place after the footprint scene. I could maybe believe this, considering the sloppy edit after the scene, but here's my counter-argument. After the scene where the longnecks eat all the food, Littlefoot says, "Well, we'd better go down and see if there's anything left." Now, I'm no Bluth expert, but I have a hunch that that line doesn't fit the tone. I think the music was meant to linger longer. That was a weird sentence. Anyway, watch the edit after that. Not only is the audio oddly paced, but the supposed forest has grown less dense, and the surrounding area is different. At the end of the oasis scene, the gang supposedly goes looking for food.
But wait! There's more!
Remember how I mentioned short, cut scenes from the tree sequence? Well, the only reason they cut scenes is for violence or racial symbolism. Ann I dun see no vi'lence in da tree scene.
So did they probably discuss the greynoses and crownheads? Maybeeeeeeeeeeeeee . . .

So Littlefoot finds the Great Valley by climbing over a mountain and ending up on the waterfall side, right? Then they all enter through the cave on the opposite end of the valley, right? And the final cut combines these versions, RIGHT?!
Guess what? I found a new background that wasn't shown in the movie.

In the storybook "Search for the Great Valley", there is a still that shows the cave end of the valley. You can see the waterfall on the opposite side. Furthermore, the rock in the grove of "( )"-shaped trees where they hug at the end is visible.

Why did I not post this in the cut scenes topic? Because I wanted to brag, of course!  

. . . Just let me have this one accomplishment.  

This is the only LBT film I haven't seen thus far. I'm watching it in 2D to 3D. I've heard stories. Pray for me.

Does anyone own it? I've seen the text posted on some websites, but never the pictures.