Children's Video Library, 1987
- Audio Cassettes
- Bruguière Stereocartes
- CD-ROMs
- Compact Disks
- Cylindrical Audio Recordings
- DVDs
- Film Animation Cells
- Films
- Filmstrips Alone
- Filmstrips with Cassettes
- Filmstrips with Records
- Kenner Give-A-Show
- Laminated Illustrations
- Lantern Slides
- Lestrade Stéréoscopes
- Movie Publicity Stills
- Paper Cartoon Movies
- Records
- Playola Records
- Sheet Music
- Stereopticon Slides
- Teaching Aids
- Tru-Vue Stereo
- V-M Talking Reels
- Video Cassettes
- View-Master
1987 Aesop's Fables I: The Tortoise and the Hare and Other Tales. Fully animated. Rewritten for today by Victor J. Tognola. Illustrated by Adelky. No. 1562. ©1987 Children's Video Library, Inc. Unknown source.
Nine stories are offered here: "The Lion and the Three Bulls," "The Fox and the Wolf," "The Crow and the Eagle," TH, "The Snake and His Tail," "The Two Dogs and the Meaty Bone," AD, OF, and "The Little Fish and the Big Fish." With this acquisition, I have what looks like the full set of three of the tapes in this series.
1987 Aesop's Fables II: The Lion and the Stag and Other Tales. Fully animated. Rewritten for today by Victor J. Tognola. Illustrated by Adelky. No. 1563. ©1987 Children's Video Library, Inc. $5.95 from Chet Burtch, Fresno, CA, through Ebay, June, '00. Extra copy with a jacket in poor condition.
Originally copyrighted apparently by Blue Lion and SSR-RTSI in 1981. See my comments on Volume III. The first fable of nine here, "The Lion and the Stag," is again highly dramatic. The lion weeps over losing the hare while he has chased a stag in vain. The "II" in the title appears only on the tape itself. Now I have the first tape in the series still to find, though I cannot be sure whether there is a fourth too!
1987 Aesop's Fables III: The Hen with the Golden Eggs and Other Tales. Fully animated. Rewritten for today by Victor J. Tognola. Illustrated by Adelky. No. 1564. ©1987 Children's Video Library, Inc. $2.25 from Rachael Houdroge, Portland, OR, through Ebay, March, '00.
Originally copyrighted apparently by Blue Lion and SSR-RTSI in 1981. I suspect that there may have been an Italian original behind this now-English presentation. While the voice-over narration is in English, I suspect that there may have been an Italian original behind this presentation. The first fable of nine here, "The Lion in Love," has lots of Italian songs and, I think, some Italian muttering and cursing. It is unusual that the title fable does not come first. The presentations are highly dramatized, as here when the lion sings arias or the girl laughs at the toothless lion. The animation work is simple. In the second fable, the kid rather than the wolf plays the flute before the wolf's dinner. The "III" in the title appears only on the tape itself.