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Schoolhouse Rock! - Multiplication Rock [VHS] Walt Disney Video SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK takes children on a fantastic scholastic learning adventure The same great songs you knew and loved as a kid are now available to a whole new generation Each volume in this special collection features exclusive bonus programming of some of todays hottest rock stars singing their favorite SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK song Learning multiplication tables is easy when you sing along with MULTIPLICATION ROCK Songs include My Hero Zero Elementary My Dear multiplying by 2 Three Is A Magic Number The Four-Legged Zoo Ready Or Not Here I Come multiplying by 5 I Got Six Seven Sampson Figure Eight Naughty Number Nine The Good Eleven and Little Twelvetoes From 1973 to 1985 a generation of kids watching Saturday morning television learned the function of conjunctions and the preamble to the U S Constitution with the help of an animated series called Schoolhouse Rock The brainchild of executives at McCaffrey and McCall Advertising the three-minute segments combined whimsical cartoons with catchy music rock was only one of the styles to help kids learn seemingly dry topics as easily as they could learn popular songs Multiplication Rock tackles the multiplication tables covering numbers 0 through 12 but not 1 or 10 and chances are few people who grew up watching can multiply by 3 or 5 without hearing the familiar voice of composer-singer Bob Dorough Other underlying talent included jazz drummer Grady Tate I Got Six Naughty Number Nine and jazz pianist Blossom Dearie Figure Eight who contributed vocals Subsequent installments would feature many other jazz musicians and songs written by jazz pianist-composer Dave Frishberg and future Broadway composer Lynn Ahrens who at the time was a fledgling secretary for McCaffrey and McCall Years later the series was considered so hip that now-grown-up rock stars rerecorded the songs and Multiplication Rock includes a music video of Electricity Electricity by Goodness --David Horiuchi Leap Frog - Letter Factory [VHS] Warner Home Video Teaches letters phonics and listening skills A wild adventure to the Letter Factory with popular LeapFrog characters Leap Lily and Tad Led by wacky Professor Quigley Tad joins Js jumping on trampolines and Ks practicing karate kicks as new letters learn their sounds Fun songs will have kids singing letter sounds in no time Tad Leap and Lily hop from the pages of the amazingly popular Leap Pad learning toys onto the television screen in this attention grabbing phonics program Tads disappointment at being unable to help his family with an important presentation at the letter factory quickly turns to excitement when he meets Professor Quigley and joins each of the letters of the alphabet in their own fun-filled classroom devoted to learning their unique sound Tad practices karate kicks with the ks digs the vibes with the cool cat ds drumming on the bongos and snores peacefully with the zs while learning to recognize each letter and the sound it makes A catchy fun song serves as a summation of each letters class and entices even the most reluctant of toddlers and their parents to sing each letters sound An interactive game follows the program and gives children a chance to practice their newfound skills of recognizing letters and their sounds Consumers expect great educational products from LeapFrog and this DVD wont disappoint Ages 2 to 5 --Tami Horiuchi A Bug's Life [VHS] Walt Disney Home Video Disneys cartoon comedy for the whole family There was such a magic on the screen in 1995 when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film Toy Story Their second feature film A Bugs Life may miss the bulls-eye but Pixars target is so lofty its hard to find the film anything less than irresistible Brighter and more colorful than the other animated insect movie of 1998 Antz A Bugs Life is the sweetly told story of Flik voiced by David Foley an ant searching for better ways to be a bug His colony unfortunately revolves around feeding and fearing the local grasshoppers lead by Hopper voiced with gleeful menace by Kevin Spacey When Flik accidentally destroys the seasonal food supply for the grasshoppers he decides to look for help We need bigger bugs The ants led by Princess Atta Julia Louis-Dreyfus are eager to dispose of the troublesome Flik Yet he finds help--a hearty bunch of bug warriors--and brings them back to the colony Unfortunately they are just traveling performers afraid of conflict As with Toy Story the ensemble of creatures and voices is remarkable and often inspired Highlights include wiseacre comedian Denis Leary as an un-ladylike ladybug Joe Ranft as the German-accented caterpillar David Hyde Pierce as a stick bug and Michael McShane as a pair of unintelligible pillbugs The scene-stealer is Attas squeaky-voiced sister baby Dot Hayden Panettiere who has a big sweet spot for Flik More gentle and kid-friendly than Antz A Bug Lifes still has some good suspense and a wonderful demise of the villain However the film--a giant worldwide hit--will be remembered for its most creative touch outtakes over the end credits la many live-action comedy films These dozen or so scenes both editions of outtakes are contained here are brilliant and deserve a special place in film history right along with 1998s other most talked-about sequence the opening Normandy invasion in Saving Private Ryan The video also contains Pixars delightful Oscar-winning short Geris Game Box art varies --Doug Thomas Schoolhouse Rock! - Grammar Rock [VHS] Walt Disney Video There are two types of Schoolhouse Rock fans Type A those who--inspired in the 70s and 80s by Conjunction Junction and Interjections --went on to become grammar gurus copyeditors and computational linguists And type B those who--less inspired by grammar than by catchy refrains--can still sing lines that today sound less than P C LOCKQUOTE Though Geraldine played hard to get uh huh R Geraldo knew hed woo her yet R He showed his affection R Despite her objection R And Geraldine hollered some interjections / LOCKQUOTE Geraldo if youll recall is a goat No matter Both kinds of fans will enjoy revisiting these Saturday-morning shorts--and hopefully this video will find its way into classrooms to boot Clever teachers who grew up on this stuff will know how to make Schoolhouse Rock fans ideally of type A out of the next generation too --Erik Macki The Tigger Movie (Disney's) [VHS] Walt Disney Home Video In the classic tradition of Disneys animated feature films the first Winnie The Pooh theatrical feature in 23 years weaves magical storytelling charming characters and memorable songs into an enchanting tale of adventure and heart As it happens the whole gang is busy preparing a suitably gloomy winter home for Eeyore When everything they do seems to get undone by Tiggers exuberant bouncing Rabbit suggests Tigger go outside and find other tiggers to bounce with -- a notion Tigger finds ridiculous because after all hes the onliest one Or is he And so begins Tiggers amazing journey to find his family This whimsical and touching film will bounce right into your heart -- and feet Schoolhouse Rock! - Science Rock [VHS] Walt Disney Video Science is an important but complex subject that often seems overwhelming to kids Science Rock takes a nontraditional approach to this subject entertaining kids with upbeat music that features lyrics absolutely packed with information Simple accurate descriptions of the human bodys digestive circulatory central nervous and skeletal systems along with explanations of energy sources the solar system and gravity provide the thematic material for eight rock- and blues-inspired songs that kids find immediately appealing Especially effective are the description of the central nervous system in A Telegraph Line and the discussion of nonrenewable energy sources in The Energy Blues Science Rock is a 1995 addition to the multi-Emmy Award winning Schoolhouse Rock series It preserves the feel and intent of the original series while offering up-to-date information about modern science Each 30-minute video in this 25th anniversary collection contains a bonus music video featuring current rock stars singing favorite Schoolhouse Rock songs--in this case Better Than Ezras rendition of Conjunction Junction --Tami Horiuchi Pinocchio (Walt Disney's Masterpiece) Walt Disney Walt Disney Home Video Leap Frog - Talking Words Factory [VHS] Warner Home Video Teaches vowels and consonants word building rhyming and vocabulary Leap Lily and Tad journey to the Word Factory where the Word Whammer Sticky-Ick-O-Rama and more amazing machines take letters and make them into words Humoruos songs and an out-of-control word machine add to the fun Building words is an exciting and empowering experience for young children and frogs who have mastered individual letters and their sounds When young Tad wants to nominate his Dad for a Best Dad contest he asks his brother Leap and sister Lily for some help filling out the application The three young frogs go see Professor Quigley at their Fathers Talking Word Factory for a little instruction and get to watch the Sticky-ick-o-rama and the Word Whammer machines at work Tad quickly discovers that vowels act as the glue that sticks letters together and then learns to combine individual letter sounds to make three-letter words use common ending sounds to create rhyming words and blend letter sounds to make even longer rhyming words Phonemic awareness vocabulary building and rhyming are entertaining and fun thanks to familiar Leap Pad characters colorful animation and short songs An interactive word game challenges young viewers to fill in the missing first letter in a variety of three-letter words This program is a great next step for graduates of Leap Frog Talking Letters Factory and children ages 3 to 6 Tami Horiuchi Bill Nye the Science Guy: Reptiles & Insects [VHS] Walt Disney Video Science goes Boing when Bill Nye shows up and this fast-moving installment of his popular show is no exception Reptiles Insects--Leapin Lizards uses the Science Guys trademark wacky sounds and visual effects to get across a wide range of facts about some of our cold-blooded relatives and as an added bonus makes science and scientists look cool We get to see venomous snakes hissing cockroaches and angry crocodiles in the safety of the living room Nye knows that our first response is to say Yuck but he gets past that by asking questions What do lizards eat How do bees see And whats really going on inside that ant farm Youll find all the answers in Reptiles Insects--Leapin Lizards --Rob Lightner Schoolhouse Rock!: Grammar Rock (Animated) [VHS] ABC Studios There are two types of Schoolhouse Rock fans Type A those who--inspired in the 70s and 80s by Conjunction Junction and Interjections --went on to become grammar gurus copyeditors and computational linguists And type B those who--less inspired by grammar than by catchy refrains--can still sing lines that today sound less than P C LOCKQUOTE Though Geraldine played hard to get uh huh R Geraldo knew hed woo her yet R He showed his affection R Despite her objection R And Geraldine hollered some interjections / LOCKQUOTE Geraldo if youll recall is a goat No matter Both kinds of fans will enjoy revisiting these Saturday-morning shorts--and hopefully this video will find its way into classrooms to boot Clever teachers who grew up on this stuff will know how to make Schoolhouse Rock fans ideally of type A out of the next generation too --Erik Macki