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...Deal. Alfred's fossil hunting began when he was only 13, when he hiked to the abandoned Granton quarry in North Bergen, a mile from his home. Friends showed him the remains of ancient fish in a layer of fine-grained black shale and Alfred became a paleontologist on the spot. He spent most of his spare time in the old quarry. At night he pored over books on his new hobby. Soon he had an impressive fossil collection, mostly of primitive fish, such as coelacanths, which he took to the Museum of Natural History...
...museum's paleontologists had often rummaged through the black shale of the Granton quarry, but none of them could match Alfred's collection of fossils...
Ancient Glider. Dr. Colbert recognized the importance of the discovery. The age of Granton's black shale is known quite accurately; it formed as silt on the bottom of the great lake that covered the Jersey meadows 175 million years ago. In that dim age, the famous flying reptiles, the pterosaurs, had not yet evolved. Yet here was a reptile equipped with something like wings. Dr. Colbert took the fossil to the laboratory, where skilled technicians spent months clearing shale from around the delicate bones...
...cast, in order of appearance, includes George H. Reed as Frederick Granton; Howard Patch, Jr., as Phipps; Frederick P. Gray as Lord Birton; Richard Sullivan as Petley; Miss Norma Taylor as Princess Anne; Miss Mary G. Williams as Queen Martha; William L. Batt as General Northrup; Henry H. Reed, Jr. as King Eric VIII; John MacD. Graham as Major Brent; Harry B. Sanderson as Prince William, Herschel T. Berman as Laker; and A. Jerome Himelhoch of late fame in the peace strike, as Dr. Fellman of anarchistic leanings...
Henry H. Reed, Jr. was chosen to play the male lead, King Eric VIII; while George H. Reed, as Granton, and Miss Norma Taylor, as Anne, will play opposite each other as two young lovers...