Follow the Bones, a feature-length documentary, unravels the mystery of a 73 million year old bone bed, a place where hundreds of dinosaurs died en masse. Tucked into a cliff that overlooks Pipestone Creek in Northern Alberta, the story follows the bones through the hands of amateurs, archivists, palaeontologists, curators and exhibit designers. The bones, lost in the archives for close to a decade, rediscovered by a curious researcher and then painstakingly pieced together, tell us what it takes to build a world-class museum in a town of 1,300 people.
Five years ago Tara Cooper and her partner Terry O’Neill set out to create a documentary about the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum located west of Grande Prairie in Wembley, Alberta. However, they gradually discovered that the real story lay in the origin of the museum and the bones that were discovered, lost and rediscovered.
The documentary is available on the Follow the Bones website along with more background on the film and the people involved. You can also hear Tara and Terry discuss their experiences while creating this documentary in an interview on the I Know Dino website. Their portion of the interview begins 30 minutes into the podcast.