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Help me identify a 90's era VHS of animated children's stories [Solved]
Rikushix
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Hey guys, long shot here but I need my sense of nostalgia stimulated! I had a discussion with someone about this but my memory failed me.
When I was a kid in the early 90s, my parents often took out these videotapes from our local library which featured children's stories, animated for your viewing pleasure in a variety of mediums (stop motion, traditional animation, etc). This included both original stories and classic folktales, as well as actual storybooks in animated form. I seem to remember a spoken version of Where The Wild Things Are?
This is pretty damn vague but there's one major identifier: this series was branded throughout with a "storytime van" - a van the size of a small RV that was painted glossy white except for a red smiley face and sad face on the side, in the manner of the dramatic masks.
As weird as this sounds it was pretty representative of these published tapes - each one started with an extremely catchy theme song played over real-life, non-animated video of this big van driving through the woods and down these little country roads. Oh, and the VHS cases had that same happy/sad face on the spine.
That's all I remember! Gold star for anyone who can help me out.
When I was a kid in the early 90s, my parents often took out these videotapes from our local library which featured children's stories, animated for your viewing pleasure in a variety of mediums (stop motion, traditional animation, etc). This included both original stories and classic folktales, as well as actual storybooks in animated form. I seem to remember a spoken version of Where The Wild Things Are?
This is pretty damn vague but there's one major identifier: this series was branded throughout with a "storytime van" - a van the size of a small RV that was painted glossy white except for a red smiley face and sad face on the side, in the manner of the dramatic masks.
As weird as this sounds it was pretty representative of these published tapes - each one started with an extremely catchy theme song played over real-life, non-animated video of this big van driving through the woods and down these little country roads. Oh, and the VHS cases had that same happy/sad face on the spine.
That's all I remember! Gold star for anyone who can help me out.
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Like that, only a little smaller.
Anyway, i did some searching around, and I was able to find this link for teachers, that actually has some of the videos of the story book readings.
http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/episodes.asp?ser_serial=14384
I guess the series name really is "Folk Tales, Fairy Tales and Fables".....although it didn't strike a chord immediately in my memory, but now that i think about it, it sounds right.
I don't remember the intro, and it doesn't seem to show it on the video clips, but in any case, I hope this helps!
http://www.nhptv.org/kn/itv/vod.asp
Hm. Some of these videos look extremely familiar, but I can't be sure they're them. Regardless...
Most likely, the Weston Woods videos were licensed out to whoever published this videotape. Which unfortunately I still can't find.
I'm glad someone else remembers that van though.
It seems like the kind of thing that would appear on PBS.
Children's Circle Home Video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6qTGC3onoA
All of this also sounded super-familiar, but in a really vague way...I typed "happy face sad face VHS" into google, and found that Youtube link. After watching the intro, I realized that I recognized most of those animations, which I literally haven't seen since the early nineties. Ahhhh, nostolgia!
Oh well, found that at the same time on Youtube. Kudos to Roch and the power of Wikipedia.
And I can't believe you found that just by searching "happy face sad face VHS"....I swear I tried a million different combinations and couldn't find anything.
I remember this video the most:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBqdcvAkjWk
Anyway. This is great. Thanks a lot guys.
The other one I distinctly remember is another Tomi Ungerer story called The Moon Man. I remember it scared the ever-loving piss outta me as a kid. I had been wondering about this myself a while back and I'm glad someone found out.