This is footage from a videogame/interactive encyclopedia produced in France (L'océan des origines, Microfolie's, 1996; I now think the date of 1995 I use below has been mistaken). The encyclopedia is dedicated to the evolution of life in prehistoric oceans between the Cambrian and Cretaceous periods (570-65 million years ago), and it's structured as a visit to an elaborate underwater museum or palace, in which each room corresponds to a subdiscipline, e.g. paleontology or comparative anatomy.
This footage is from the copy I own, with Italian audio and text. I added translations and subtitles in English for all material, except for credits and a bibliography.It is divided in eight parts: 1) Introduction, history of marine biology, and dictionary; 2) Archive of species; 3) Paleontologists of the past, continental drift, and fossils; 4) Genealogy of living groups; 5) Living functions and compared anatomy; 6) Aquarium (3d animal models); 7) Presentation of epochs; 8) Paleoscaphe (travel to the past) and credits. The ninth video contains the game's soundtrack in higher quality. The complete footage lasts about two hours.Denys Prache is named as main project author and Eric Brouillat as project director; you can find full credits at the end of the eighth video.