(1/2) Well everybody, the long-anticipated upload of Pride and Prejudice: Dino Time! is finally here, and there’s a lot of lore to share. It took me a while to clean up the video and come to terms with the original ripper. First of all, we're EXTREMELY lucky to have received this direct rip of an original production tape from Featured Films for Family - not only does it contain all of Daldo's original songs from Pride and Prejudice: Dino Time! - it even includes voice acting and sound effects that would have made their way into the final movie. This is, without a doubt, the most complete collection of Daldo music compiled to date. Second, the original ripper has been in contact with Daldo himself and informs me that a remastered version of these same tracks will soon be available on Spotify and other streaming platforms. Christmas came early for Daldo fans! Now I know what you're all thinking - how in the world did I get my hands on this music, and what's the story behind it? A studio executive who wishes to keep his identity private reached out to share this rip, and he was more than willing to answer my questions. But first, I'd like to ask you to share this video with any Daldo or Jane Austen fans you know - this music deserves to be heard! The Origin of Dino Time! The same year Feature Films for Family (FFFF) was incorporated, Don Bluth released 'The Land Before Time' in theaters. I went to see it with the kids and afterwards I had a conversation with another studio lead about making a dinosaur flick. Unfortunately, animation wasn't cheap back then and we didn't have a story either. FFFF movies needed a strong moral foundation and a message emphasizing faith and family. We puzzled over how we could bring these elements together, and the question was shelved. Back then FFFF had yet to finance an original feature. We primarily worked as a distributor for foreign programming. It was one of my many jobs to scout for possible additions to our catalog. Most of us knew someone on the mission field, and I knew quite a few. All that work put us in touch with studios from Japan to Korea to the Soviet Union. In 92, Jurassic Park came out, and that's when conversations about a dinosaur movie restarted. By this time FFFF was actually funding productions, and we'd already had conversations with foreign partners about a potential project. We finally had a meeting about the idea. The pitch was simple: our studio head had asked for "Disney subject matter," meaning a classic story in the public domain. Jane Austen checked that box. But 'Pride and Prejudice' needed something for the boys, and that's where dinosaurs came in. All we needed was a story and some music. What Daldo Was Like I heard about Daldo from my good friend Jeff Raskin before Christ for Arms went belly up - I even got a chance to see him doing his main "hustle" when I visited Jeff in Denver. He was an odd guy - kind of quiet and broody. You wouldn’t expect him to be the life of any party, until you saw him in action. He was a master at keeping patrons on the floor. He knew how to read a room and keep the groove going. Daldo didn’t talk much about his personal life, but you got the sense that he was always profoundly discontented. He threw himself with ruthless abandon at every challenge he came up against. I asked him once why he exerted so much effort for a direct-to-VHS movie. He told me “If you treat everything you do like it's the most important thing you’ll ever do, then some day you’ll be right.” All these years later I still think about that. He was a bright young talent, and so was his firebrand collaborator. Daldo was secretive about her identity and only referred to her as Capybara. She’s the one who brought most of the literary background. Daldo couldn’t tell you Jane Austen from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - but Capy knew every book like the back of her hand and the history behind them too.
(2/2) What the Studio Thought of Daldo's Music Daldo was busy with Christ for Arms at the time, but enthusiastic about the prospect of working on Dino Time!. He offered to put together some demo tracks and even workshop the story for us. Several months later we got his tape in the mail. I was impressed, but not everyone was blown away. Bear in mind, there were a lot of good songwriters in the 90s. It was the middle of what we now call the "Disney Renaissance" and everyone wanted to make a musical. Have you ever heard of Kurt Bestor? Probably not - he's a nobody today. But the music he wrote for 'Rigoletto' stands head and shoulders with 'Beauty and the Beast'. Sure, there were memorable tracks on that original demo - my grandkids call them "bangers". 'A Dinosaur in Me' and all of Wickham's songs are favorites. But his style was different, and yes, that absolutely CAN be a bad thing. The tape we got was clearly put together by a DJ, and that didn't sit well with everyone. I proposed that we bring Daldo into our sound studio and have him rework the music to be a bit more traditional. After some discussion the team agreed, and Daldo was ready to cooperate. On Daldo's Technique The original tracks Daldo sent me were all put together with a keyboard, tape deck and drum machine - simple chords and arpeggios. If memory serves me correctly he favored an old DX7. Before I invited him to our studio Daldo had never touched a modern sequencer or workstation in his life. What he did from that point on wasn't traditional composition per se, but he did manage to achieve a better sound with the help of the tools we provided him. He insisted on keeping the synths for the first and final track, probably as a way to leave his signature (the studio drew a line when he attempted to include his producer tag in the movie). I didn’t mind the sound - I thought it was unique. But many of my colleagues seemed to feel that any thumpy dance-floor song was a dealbreaker. “A kids movie should NOT sound like a night club,” someone said - but it's not like she'd ever been to a night club, so I doubt she would know the difference. What Happened to Pride and Prejudice: Dino Time! It got made, believe it or not. But not the way we envisioned it - and it's still the biggest disappointment of my career. When we discussed producing Daldo's version of Dino Time!, reactions were split. Half of us thought it was a great idea - the other half was not enthusiastic. Needless to say, I was in the first camp. I fought hard: I said we had a nearly complete musical from an up-and-coming artist in an original style with unique subject matter. All it needed was a little spit and polish. With the right animation studio, how hard could that be? For a minute there it seemed like I was winning the battle. Those of us who supported the project got a green light to move forward - we were in talks with a big animation studio to make the film. I still dream about what could have been if that deal went through. Unfortunately, our partner was regaining its balance after an embarrassing box office bomb. The terms it demanded from FFFF got more and more onerous. I don’t remember the exact figure, but they ended up demanding more than 50% of the revenue, plus a big upfront “investment” that we just couldn’t afford at the time. When that relationship fell through, the writing for Dino Time! was on the wall. From that point on, the split at FFFF got intense in the worst way possible. Half of us wanted to dump as much money into this project as we could, and the other half wanted to scrap it completely. In a gridlock situation like that, someone always makes a compromise that pleases no one. To cut a long story short, the budget allocated to Dino Time! was reduced by a fraction. It was sent off to a foreign studio we'd never worked with before, whose standards were much lower than our first partner. What we got back was - predictably - a half baked, sweatshop animated pile of garbage - not worth the cellophane it was printed on. Even Daldo’s music couldn’t salvage it. Sad to say, that was the first and only thing we all agreed on. Why is Darcy’s cousin a dinosaur? In an early draft of the screenplay Wickham turns people into dinosaurs - that was his whole deal. The existence of intelligent dinosaurs like Mr. Collins and Fitzwilliam is a holdover from that original concept. Once the idea was scrapped, I have no idea why they stayed in the movie. Maybe Daldo would say Fitzwilliam isn't related to Darcy in his final version of the story - but it's an odd oversight given the pains he took to stick with the source material in other cases. Capy fought with him over much smaller details to be honest. I did ask Daldo why Darcy was friends with a dinosaur in the first place - according to him it was a commentary on the logic of racism, or lack thereof to be more specific. You’ve got a man who is devoted to eradicating an entire race of creatures, but there’s one he makes an exception for. Why? It isn't explained because it CAN’T be explained. That’s how the world really is, at least according to Daldo. Why is Wickham so Evil? Believe it or not, the version of Wickham that we got was tame compared to the original. In Daldo's first version of the story, Wickham's plot involved killing Lydia in a sacrificial ritual. We all agreed that just wouldn't fly for a kids' movie, let alone one promoting Christian values. We asked him to rewrite the story so Wickham was just going to send her back in time. Happily, Daldo obliged. In both versions, the darkest thing about Wickham is the way he psychologically manipulates a young woman (not to say an innocent one) for his own selfish purposes. Ultimately, Wickham and Lydia are the way they are to provide contrast with the main couple. They have a selfish relationship that gets more and more selfish with time. Darcy and Elizabeth have a selfless and mutually constructive relationship that improves both of them. According to Capy, this was the heart of Jane Austen's original work, and the most important thing to get right. Why are there no copies of Dino Time! left? There are - they just aren't circulating anymore. I can’t stress this to you enough: Dino Time’s run was abysmal. It came as a surprise to no one - not even Daldo - that nobody liked it. A lot of video stores that bought copies upfront sent them back. From that point on, orders stopped and we stopped printing. In the end, I doubt that more than a hundred copies of the movie stayed in circulation past the initial publication date. Nobody thought they had anything special on their hands - it was forgotten. That’s the magic recipe for lost media. It’s happened a thousand times before, and it will happen a thousand times again. When you're diving through the bin at a used book store and you find a crappy 99 cent DVD, remember that a lot of people might have poured their hearts and souls into that product only to be forgotten. What He Thinks of Daldo Archive I really appreciate the work you're doing. I knew this music would have its time, and I want you to know that Daldo is aware of it. He appreciates it too.
My Dad, who died from cancer three years ago told me stories of working on this production. Thank you so much for finding this, now I'll be able to show this to my kids! God bless Daldo Archive!
My wife and I met Daldo back in 1994 during a festival in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. He was a student passing out tapes of his recent work, and invited us to Electric Light Oasis. Real quiet young guy. We listened on the 5 hour drive back home. Been looking for uploads of his classic work for years. It is pure delight to find his music again.
In 1998 I was a grandmother and my daughter was a huge fan of Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice. I'm sure she had the only toddlers who lisped playing "Mr. Dahcy and Wizzie.". About his 5th birthday, a switch was thrown in Brendan's brain and he went from loving trucks to loving dinosaurs. You can imagine the instant hit this musical was in our house. We spent many happy hours watching it until, well, it went the way of the dinosaurs. Thanks for the memories! "I wouldn't have it any other way.". Oh, if your cover has red magic marker scribbles on the back, you have our copy!
Daldo showed me that beans aren’t the worst thing-they’re actually pretty great in their own way. Watching him embrace something so simple made me see that maybe there’s a dinosaur inside me too, a hidden part of myself that’s stronger and braver than I realized. If Daldo could make peace with beans, then I could find that little dino inside me to face my own fears, even if they seem as silly as hating a plate of beans.
From “beans aren’t the worst thing” to messages of “a single man” Daldo continues to provide generations with amazing Christian witnesses and a continuous message of Hope! WE ❤ DALDO!!!
feature films for families always has those sneaky nuggets of wisdom, like, oh look, here’s a wholesome life lesson disguised as a boy with crosses for arns
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(1/2) Well everybody, the long-anticipated upload of Pride and Prejudice: Dino Time! is finally here, and there’s a lot of lore to share. It took me a while to clean up the video and come to terms with the original ripper.
First of all, we're EXTREMELY lucky to have received this direct rip of an original production tape from Featured Films for Family - not only does it contain all of Daldo's original songs from Pride and Prejudice: Dino Time! - it even includes voice acting and sound effects that would have made their way into the final movie. This is, without a doubt, the most complete collection of Daldo music compiled to date.
Second, the original ripper has been in contact with Daldo himself and informs me that a remastered version of these same tracks will soon be available on Spotify and other streaming platforms. Christmas came early for Daldo fans!
Now I know what you're all thinking - how in the world did I get my hands on this music, and what's the story behind it? A studio executive who wishes to keep his identity private reached out to share this rip, and he was more than willing to answer my questions. But first, I'd like to ask you to share this video with any Daldo or Jane Austen fans you know - this music deserves to be heard!
The Origin of Dino Time!
The same year Feature Films for Family (FFFF) was incorporated, Don Bluth released 'The Land Before Time' in theaters. I went to see it with the kids and afterwards I had a conversation with another studio lead about making a dinosaur flick.
Unfortunately, animation wasn't cheap back then and we didn't have a story either. FFFF movies needed a strong moral foundation and a message emphasizing faith and family. We puzzled over how we could bring these elements together, and the question was shelved.
Back then FFFF had yet to finance an original feature. We primarily worked as a distributor for foreign programming. It was one of my many jobs to scout for possible additions to our catalog. Most of us knew someone on the mission field, and I knew quite a few. All that work put us in touch with studios from Japan to Korea to the Soviet Union.
In 92, Jurassic Park came out, and that's when conversations about a dinosaur movie restarted. By this time FFFF was actually funding productions, and we'd already had conversations with foreign partners about a potential project.
We finally had a meeting about the idea. The pitch was simple: our studio head had asked for "Disney subject matter," meaning a classic story in the public domain. Jane Austen checked that box. But 'Pride and Prejudice' needed something for the boys, and that's where dinosaurs came in. All we needed was a story and some music.
What Daldo Was Like
I heard about Daldo from my good friend Jeff Raskin before Christ for Arms went belly up - I even got a chance to see him doing his main "hustle" when I visited Jeff in Denver. He was an odd guy - kind of quiet and broody. You wouldn’t expect him to be the life of any party, until you saw him in action. He was a master at keeping patrons on the floor. He knew how to read a room and keep the groove going.
Daldo didn’t talk much about his personal life, but you got the sense that he was always profoundly discontented. He threw himself with ruthless abandon at every challenge he came up against. I asked him once why he exerted so much effort for a direct-to-VHS movie. He told me “If you treat everything you do like it's the most important thing you’ll ever do, then some day you’ll be right.” All these years later I still think about that.
He was a bright young talent, and so was his firebrand collaborator. Daldo was secretive about her identity and only referred to her as Capybara. She’s the one who brought most of the literary background. Daldo couldn’t tell you Jane Austen from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - but Capy knew every book like the back of her hand and the history behind them too.
(2/2) What the Studio Thought of Daldo's Music
Daldo was busy with Christ for Arms at the time, but enthusiastic about the prospect of working on Dino Time!. He offered to put together some demo tracks and even workshop the story for us. Several months later we got his tape in the mail.
I was impressed, but not everyone was blown away. Bear in mind, there were a lot of good songwriters in the 90s. It was the middle of what we now call the "Disney Renaissance" and everyone wanted to make a musical. Have you ever heard of Kurt Bestor? Probably not - he's a nobody today. But the music he wrote for 'Rigoletto' stands head and shoulders with 'Beauty and the Beast'.
Sure, there were memorable tracks on that original demo - my grandkids call them "bangers". 'A Dinosaur in Me' and all of Wickham's songs are favorites. But his style was different, and yes, that absolutely CAN be a bad thing. The tape we got was clearly put together by a DJ, and that didn't sit well with everyone.
I proposed that we bring Daldo into our sound studio and have him rework the music to be a bit more traditional. After some discussion the team agreed, and Daldo was ready to cooperate.
On Daldo's Technique
The original tracks Daldo sent me were all put together with a keyboard, tape deck and drum machine - simple chords and arpeggios. If memory serves me correctly he favored an old DX7. Before I invited him to our studio Daldo had never touched a modern sequencer or workstation in his life. What he did from that point on wasn't traditional composition per se, but he did manage to achieve a better sound with the help of the tools we provided him.
He insisted on keeping the synths for the first and final track, probably as a way to leave his signature (the studio drew a line when he attempted to include his producer tag in the movie). I didn’t mind the sound - I thought it was unique. But many of my colleagues seemed to feel that any thumpy dance-floor song was a dealbreaker. “A kids movie should NOT sound like a night club,” someone said - but it's not like she'd ever been to a night club, so I doubt she would know the difference.
What Happened to Pride and Prejudice: Dino Time!
It got made, believe it or not. But not the way we envisioned it - and it's still the biggest disappointment of my career.
When we discussed producing Daldo's version of Dino Time!, reactions were split. Half of us thought it was a great idea - the other half was not enthusiastic. Needless to say, I was in the first camp. I fought hard: I said we had a nearly complete musical from an up-and-coming artist in an original style with unique subject matter. All it needed was a little spit and polish. With the right animation studio, how hard could that be?
For a minute there it seemed like I was winning the battle. Those of us who supported the project got a green light to move forward - we were in talks with a big animation studio to make the film. I still dream about what could have been if that deal went through.
Unfortunately, our partner was regaining its balance after an embarrassing box office bomb. The terms it demanded from FFFF got more and more onerous. I don’t remember the exact figure, but they ended up demanding more than 50% of the revenue, plus a big upfront “investment” that we just couldn’t afford at the time. When that relationship fell through, the writing for Dino Time! was on the wall.
From that point on, the split at FFFF got intense in the worst way possible. Half of us wanted to dump as much money into this project as we could, and the other half wanted to scrap it completely.
In a gridlock situation like that, someone always makes a compromise that pleases no one. To cut a long story short, the budget allocated to Dino Time! was reduced by a fraction. It was sent off to a foreign studio we'd never worked with before, whose standards were much lower than our first partner.
What we got back was - predictably - a half baked, sweatshop animated pile of garbage - not worth the cellophane it was printed on. Even Daldo’s music couldn’t salvage it. Sad to say, that was the first and only thing we all agreed on.
Why is Darcy’s cousin a dinosaur?
In an early draft of the screenplay Wickham turns people into dinosaurs - that was his whole deal. The existence of intelligent dinosaurs like Mr. Collins and Fitzwilliam is a holdover from that original concept. Once the idea was scrapped, I have no idea why they stayed in the movie. Maybe Daldo would say Fitzwilliam isn't related to Darcy in his final version of the story - but it's an odd oversight given the pains he took to stick with the source material in other cases. Capy fought with him over much smaller details to be honest.
I did ask Daldo why Darcy was friends with a dinosaur in the first place - according to him it was a commentary on the logic of racism, or lack thereof to be more specific. You’ve got a man who is devoted to eradicating an entire race of creatures, but there’s one he makes an exception for. Why? It isn't explained because it CAN’T be explained. That’s how the world really is, at least according to Daldo.
Why is Wickham so Evil?
Believe it or not, the version of Wickham that we got was tame compared to the original. In Daldo's first version of the story, Wickham's plot involved killing Lydia in a sacrificial ritual.
We all agreed that just wouldn't fly for a kids' movie, let alone one promoting Christian values. We asked him to rewrite the story so Wickham was just going to send her back in time. Happily, Daldo obliged. In both versions, the darkest thing about Wickham is the way he psychologically manipulates a young woman (not to say an innocent one) for his own selfish purposes.
Ultimately, Wickham and Lydia are the way they are to provide contrast with the main couple. They have a selfish relationship that gets more and more selfish with time. Darcy and Elizabeth have a selfless and mutually constructive relationship that improves both of them. According to Capy, this was the heart of Jane Austen's original work, and the most important thing to get right.
Why are there no copies of Dino Time! left?
There are - they just aren't circulating anymore. I can’t stress this to you enough: Dino Time’s run was abysmal. It came as a surprise to no one - not even Daldo - that nobody liked it. A lot of video stores that bought copies upfront sent them back. From that point on, orders stopped and we stopped printing.
In the end, I doubt that more than a hundred copies of the movie stayed in circulation past the initial publication date. Nobody thought they had anything special on their hands - it was forgotten. That’s the magic recipe for lost media. It’s happened a thousand times before, and it will happen a thousand times again. When you're diving through the bin at a used book store and you find a crappy 99 cent DVD, remember that a lot of people might have poured their hearts and souls into that product only to be forgotten.
What He Thinks of Daldo Archive
I really appreciate the work you're doing. I knew this music would have its time, and I want you to know that Daldo is aware of it. He appreciates it too.
What a year for lost Media
My Dad, who died from cancer three years ago told me stories of working on this production. Thank you so much for finding this, now I'll be able to show this to my kids! God bless Daldo Archive!
What an ending for Mr. Collins' interpreter. What a decent fellow.
He was very put-upon - perhaps an allegory for Daldo himself.
Was looking for Jane Austin audiobook and ended up here by accident. Not disappointed.
What Pride and Prejudice and Zombies wishes it was
Sinister wah wahs to those who celebrate
My wife and I met Daldo back in 1994 during a festival in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. He was a student passing out tapes of his recent work, and invited us to Electric Light Oasis. Real quiet young guy. We listened on the 5 hour drive back home. Been looking for uploads of his classic work for years. It is pure delight to find his music again.
Very few remember Electric Light Oasis - the start of Daldo’s illustrious career. Thank you for your comment!
@@daldoarchive hope you release more music from the vault, including “Daldo’s on the dance floor.” Thank you.
What a peculiarly beautiful tale
Rumor is Daldo used the best of 90's technology to recreate what actual dino singing sounded like. Such dedication from Daldo!
A brilliant masterpiece. Who knew something so magnificent could go missing for so long?
In 1998 I was a grandmother and my daughter was a huge fan of Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice. I'm sure she had the only toddlers who lisped playing "Mr. Dahcy and Wizzie.". About his 5th birthday, a switch was thrown in Brendan's brain and he went from loving trucks to loving dinosaurs. You can imagine the instant hit this musical was in our house. We spent many happy hours watching it until, well, it went the way of the dinosaurs. Thanks for the memories! "I wouldn't have it any other way.". Oh, if your cover has red magic marker scribbles on the back, you have our copy!
There's a dinosaur in all of us and maybe that's a good thing! I'm glad this gem has finally seen the light of day.
Daldo showed me that beans aren’t the worst thing-they’re actually pretty great in their own way. Watching him embrace something so simple made me see that maybe there’s a dinosaur inside me too, a hidden part of myself that’s stronger and braver than I realized. If Daldo could make peace with beans, then I could find that little dino inside me to face my own fears, even if they seem as silly as hating a plate of beans.
From “beans aren’t the worst thing” to messages of “a single man” Daldo continues to provide generations with amazing Christian witnesses and a continuous message of Hope!
WE ❤ DALDO!!!
Oddly fantastic
feature films for families always has those sneaky nuggets of wisdom, like, oh look, here’s a wholesome life lesson disguised as a boy with crosses for arns
20:27 is my favorite part!
I thought was a meme
It should be