The Flight of Dragons (1986) was an animated movie produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin and based on the speculative natural history book of the same name by Peter Dickinson and the novel The Dragon and the George by Gordon R. Dickson.
The Plot
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Peter Dickinson (voiced by John Ritter) is a poor, dreaming scientist/inventor who is transported into the failing world of magic. He meets three wizards, two dragons, and the beautiful Princess Melisande. The green wizard Carolinus (voiced by Harry Morgan), his brother Lo Tae Shao (voiced by Don Messick), and the blue wizard Solarius explain that the world of magic is dying. To save it, they must join together to create the 'Last Realm of Magic' -- a protected place where magic will live on after humans stop believing. The red wizard Ommadon (voiced by James Earl Jones) has refused to aid his brothers, and vows to dominate humanity, in an attempt to stop magic's death by force. The only way to stop him is to take his Red Crown, which holds his power. Peter, being descended from an ancient hero, is asked to begin a quest.
But before the journey begins, a magical mishap leaves Peter in the body of the house-dragon Gorbash. Knowing nothing about being a dragon or about magic, Peter travels with two other companions, Sir Orin Neville Smythe, (voiced by Bob McFadden) and the dragon Smergol (voiced by James Gregory) who try to teach Peter the finer points of being a dragon. Many adventures ensue.
External Links
The Flight of Dragons at us.imdb.com (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083951/)
The Flight of Dragons is a 1982animated movie produced by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.
The green wizard Carolinus (voiced by Harry Morgan), his brother Lo Tae Shao (voiced by Don Messick), and the blue wizard Solarius explain that the world of magic is dying.
The group presses on, and they are attacked by Giles of the Treetops and his elves because they are mistakenly suspicious of the dragons.
The huge, leathery wings usually imagined for a Western dragon are similar to those of a bat, which are supported in four places to the body as opposed to being supported in only two places like those of a bird.
Mythical dragons are also helped by their buoyancy – dragons are hypothesised to have bladders which can contain hydrogen that help to reduce the weight of a dragon in order for it to fly.
Dragons employ a catalytic spark from powdered platinum from ingested sediment rock, which reacted with the stored hydrogen to produce fire.
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