Croods Movie Questions

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Theyre the world's most popular prehistoric family! But the Croods are in for some futuristic adventures when they bump into a new family - but you'll know all this already if you've seen the movie! Test how much you can remember of this epic Stone Age adventure by answering these quiz questions!

Gale Robertson:

Hello, everyone out there. Welcome to our Family Program, "Camp Croods at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History." My name is Gale, and I'm an educator at the museum, and I'm so excited to be hosting this program for you today. Before we begin, we'd like to make a special thanks to Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, our sole sponsor for today's public educational program. We deeply appreciate their support, which enables us to discover, create, and share new knowledge with the world free of charge, today and every day.

Today's Camp Croods program is all about how humans, both in the prehistoric times and in the modern times, create art, share stories and express themselves in different ways. We will be joined by two special guest experts, archaeologist, Briana Pobiner, from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and production designer, Nate Wragg, from Dreamworks Animation. They will share with us how human expression, communication, and creativity is represented in ancient human artifacts from prehistoric times, which you'll see in our virtual tour of the Hall of Human Origins, and how it's portrayed in the movie, "The Croods: A New Age," which is available today on digital and Blu-ray.

While we wait for more people to join our program, and before we meet our special guest, let's go over some logistical things to help you navigate the Zoom platform. The program today will be about 60 minutes long. There will be a recording of the program posted on our website next week, that you can refer to if you have to leave early or if you want to watch it again.

To ask us questions or comments during the program, please use the Q&A feature, which you can find either at the bottom or the top of your screen. We do not have a chat feature during this webinar, so anytime you want to talk to us or ask us questions or answer any questions, it'll be through the Q&A feature. Now, we will try to answer as many questions as possible. We may not answer them immediately. However, there will be a Q&A section during this program where we will just take as many questions as we can and ask them of those experts. So just hold on tight and we'll try to get your questions answered then. Also, we have closed captioning available. So if you want to turn these on or off, click on the CC button that's located near the Q&A feature.

Now, while our museum is closed, we are broadcasting programs to you from our homes, and we love hearing where our viewers are tuning in from. So where are you joining us from today? Please use the Q&A feature to tell us. I am coming to you from my apartment in Washington, D.C. All right. So I'm going to open up my Q&A. All right.

We have some friends from D.C., Clarisa from Fairfax, Virginia, LA, D.C., Vermont, Petworth just down the street for me. Alexandria, Virginia, Philadelphia, Valencia, California. I have Ava in Tennessee, Tracy in Maine. Wow. We are covering most of the United States, Boston, Davis, California, Oakland, Maryland. St. Mary's, I'm assuming that's in Maryland. Havertown, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico. Hello, San Diego. The Cayman Islands, lovely. Johnson City, Tennessee. All right.

I'm loving all of these people from all over. Oklahoma City, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Hi, Ben from Baltimore. Ben says, Hi, Christian. All right, Chantilly, Maine. Wow, this is so amazing. The Seattle area, Alabama, I love this. I see Itsy in Arlington, Virginia, hi. Hi, Karen from Maryland. New York, Hudson, New Hampshire. My gosh, we are so excited to have so many people.

I can't say hello to everyone, but we do have people on the back end that will be saying hello to you, my colleagues from the museum. Woo, this is so exciting. We are so excited about today's program. It's so great to see viewers from all over joining us today. To those of you who have just logged on to Zoom, hello and welcome to today's program, "Camp Croods at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History."

During this program, production designer, Nate Wragg, will be showing us clips and images from the movie, "The Croods: A New Age." These clips highlight the creativity and innovation in the world of the Croods. Along with Nate, archaeologist Briana Pobiner, who's from our museum, will be taking us on an exploration of the Hall of Human Origins and will show us artifacts that help us understand what we know about the lives of ancient humans, especially around communication, expression, and art. We have some really interesting art-science connections to share with you. So let's go ahead and meet our experts. Hey, Briana.

Gale Robertson:

So first of all, we do like to talk about people's jobs because I did say a lot of long titles before your names. So let's talk about what you do. Briana, you're a scientist at the museum. Can you tell us more about what you do there?

Briana Pobiner:

Sure. So I'm a scientist called an archaeologist. An archaeologist studies human prehistory. We excavate prehistoric sites and we analyze artifacts and fossils found there. I'm particularly interested in the kinds of food that ancient humans ate. So I study the fossil bones of animals found at ancient human sites. So I do excavations mainly in Africa, but I also study fossils from excavations all over the world.

Gale Robertson:

All right. And then Nate, you are an extra-special guest because you are coming to us from Dreamworks Animation. And I introduced you as a production designer, can you tell us more about your job?

Nate Wragg:

Yeah, so my job is whatever movie I'm on, and in this case it was "Croods: A New Age," I oversee the visual look and style of the movie. So everything from color to characters. In the Croods, there's a wide range of all these crazy animals and new landscapes and worlds that we get to discover. So it's my job to oversee and make sure all that stuff looks as cool as possible.

Nate Wragg:

I think it came from a long time ago with the first film, "The Croods," and I think it was just sort of a play on words with sort of a caveman family. I didn't work on that project that early on. I sort of helped out a little bit on the very tail end of it. So I wasn't around for the name, but I believe it stuck and it kind of fits the entire family perfectly.

Gale Robertson:

Awesome. And we're going to be talking about a little bit more words that play off of that word, Croods, so you guys will be learning some new words. All right. Thank you so much for those introductions. We're going to get a chance to delve a little bit deeper into your areas of expertise throughout this program. So now, this Camp Croods program was inspired by scenes and characters from "The Croods: A New Age" movie. So let's warm up by watching a clip of the movie. So I am going to cue the movie up right now. Thank you for your patience as I pull up this movie. I promise it will be worth it. All right, here we go.

Gale Robertson:

I love that scene. Okay. So some of you might be wondering what "The Croods: A New Age" has to do with the National Museum of Natural History. Well, the obvious connection is a focus on ancient humans. "The Croods: A New Age" movie has created an imaginary, prehistoric world that you just saw snippet of, with unique characters, fantastic animal mashups, and an extraordinary landscape in order to tell a story.

Well, at the National Museum of Natural History, we have scientists like Briana who excavate and study evidence of prehistoric humans, animals, and plants. And this helps us reconstruct what ancient environments and landscapes looked like. So today we are going to be talking about those connections we found between what scientists like Briana have discovered about ancient humans through artifacts and scientific evidence, and the imaginary prehistoric world of "The Croods: A New Age." So before we dive into that, I've been saying the word ancient human, and so Briana, I wanted to help our viewers understand, how long ago was that?

Briana Pobiner:

Yeah, that's a great question. So when we say ancient human, usually I mean anything that's prehistoric. And prehistoric is before writing or other recorded human history, and that starts a little more than five or 6,000 years ago. But human evolutionary history goes back much farther than that, all the way to about six or seven million years ago when we shared a common ancestor with living chimpanzees. So we didn't evolve from living apes or monkeys, but we share common ancestors that are now extinct with other apes and monkeys that are collectively known as primates. This is kind of like a great, great times a few million great grandparent.

Gale Robertson:

Great, thank you for that. And Nate, we were just talking about the world of Croods. And one word that I learned from you was Crood delicious, Croodaceous. Crood delicious, I made that one up. Croodaceous Period. Can you tell us when that's supposed to be?

Nate Wragg:

Yeah. So the Croodaceous Period is sort of a time between times that we like to think existed, even though we don't have any exact examples that it did. Other than we've got all of these sort of wonderful creature mashups that exist in the Croods world that feel a little bit like animals that we know today. Take Douglas for example, half crocodile, half dog. He's a crocodog in the Croodaceous time period, but now we've sort of separated those two animals because they had to kind of become their own things eventually. But yeah.

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