My grandma told me that she saw a movie at around age 6 in which a big dinosaur rampaged through a city and picked up skyscrapers in its hand. For years she was afraid of “dinosawers”.
This would have been around 1933 or 1934 so NOT Godzilla which was my 1st guess.
Any ideas what film it was?
According to this article, there was a The Lost World version on 1925 with a dinosaur terrorizing a city; but it was a brontosaur, so no hands. Maybe she made up the picking skyscrapers in its hand bit? Time is a bitch, and kid's imagination tends to run wild.
https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/the-evolution-of-hollywood-dinosaurs/
You have a good list of possible candidates here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_dinosaurs
Sorry, I got the last link wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_dinosaurs
Janelle Shane
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