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?

@janellecshane Curious: was the mystery solved?

@awhite I showed her a bit of The Lost World today and she said it’s definitely not that. She thought the dinosaur was in New York knocking down skyscrapers as if they were blocks.

Furthermore she says it could have been part of a weekly serial like the Perils of Pauline (though it wasn’t Perils of Pauline because by then she had figured out that Pauline would always survive so that didn’t scare her like the dinosaur did)

@janellecshane Good luck in hunting it down! (I'm afraid I've shot my bolt in helping out!)