Adventures Of The Big Trees

Adventures Of The Big Trees is a 1977 ATBW Movie featuring the company's mascot Zach The Stick Person, who goes back in time to 200 million years into the triassic period and ends up meeting eight colored pterodactyls, which in turn become friends with him after he shares his snacks with them.

The movie became one of the highest grossing films of the late 1970's and one of the last original grossing films released many years before the Escade-Era of ATBW, which first began in 1989 (though the company had relations with them since as early as 1987).

It was also dubbed as one of ATBW's most advanced films for its time considering it was released in 1977, as the intro of the movie was several years ahead of its time. It was one of the first clear quality original films, and one of the earliest ATBW films using gradients and advanced detail. This was something many other films even three years later could not achieve. Even Pido & Friends The Halloween Party in 1979 doesn't have animation as advanced as this film, as said by film enthusiasts around this time.

History & Development
This idea was originally conceived by Thomas Davidson, who at the time was working as the chief of the company's animation department. After visiting a museum and studying about pangea from the triassic period 200 million years ago back in 1973, he eventually came up with an idea to make a movie in which the company's main mascot Zach The Stick Person goes back in time to the triassic period. Much of this movie would focus on the triassic time period

He would also want to make the pterodactyls come home with the main character back into the present world, and during development, he wanted to see a custom intro for the film instead of the usual stock one the company used then, which would be used in the opening of the movie. However, due to a recent logo design in 1975, the first time since 1950, the logo ended up having to have that style of logo, considering that this movie began development in 1973, which at that time still had the previous 1950 logo.