At 02:29 PM 4/29/2005, you wrote: >If anyone remembers a specific source for this, such a lesson, a book, >a TV program or movie I remember an animated 30 second commercial from the 70's (by Chevron, I think) that showed a kind of stylized "time-lapse photography" progression beginning with a four legged dinosaur eating plants and ending with a happy motorist driving into a gas station and filling up. So apparently at that time it was a pretty well established bit of folklore. Near as I can figure from doing a little google research, the blame can probably be laid squarely on the shoulders of Sinclair Oil Corporation, which started using a dinosaur as its symbol back in 1930 <http://www.sinclairoil.com/about_sinclair.htm> and sponsored a display at the '33 World's Fair featuring several dinosaur models. Probably intended to representative of the TIME oil came from, it was likely misinterpreted as representative of WHAT oil came from. |
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