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Marshmallows? No they're just fluffy balls!

Advantages: classic kids entertainment at it's best
Disadvantages: includes all the episodes so goes on a bit

I know many of the you out there may not remember this kids show that I remember watching as a small child on Sunday mornings around about the time that Bagpuss was on. Like Bagpuss there were only 13 episodes made but it seemed like many more than that back then. Repeats didn't seem to matter so much as they were only on once a week and children's tv wasn't available so much as it is now. We were lucky to have a couple of hours a day and so I think ...
...hats or bows depending on the character. They had small movable arms and legs and waddled a bit when they walked. The Background The series made in 1976 was created by Julie Holder as well as writing it. It was produced by David Yates using the stop motion technique which is a long painstaking process which means moving each character slightly and taking a shot before moving them slightly again. This same process is used a lot by Aardman Animations ...

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Winnie the Pooh and Me Too!

Advantages: classic stories, well crafted songs, excellent remastering of picture and sound
Disadvantages: some disapprove as Shepard's drawings were not recreated for animation

...week. The many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was one of the films that would appear every now and again, and I would sit down to watch it with great delight. I was such a huge fan, that my parents bought me Winnie The Pooh print dresses from the local Sears department stores, and I would have that identical dress again and again as I grew to the next size until at last, alas, I was too old to fit in the smaller children's sizes. This film was responsible ...
...three original shorts were: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too! (1974) Based upon the works of A.A. Milne, they were nonetheless Disneyfied versions of the stories and characters, so not completely faithful to the books. The film opens with a book being read by a narrator, and the pictures come alive as he reads. Winnie the Pooh and the Hunny Tree focuses on Pooh Bear ...

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Review of Winnie The Pooh - The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh (Animated) (DVD)

Chorltons so Happy !

Advantages: KIDS WILL LOVE HIM
Disadvantages: NOTHING

CHORLTON AND THE WHEELIES SERIES 2 = Recently watched this with my kids and it brought back quite a few memories. Chorlton is a happiness dragon and one day he wakes up or rather is hatched in Wheelie world. From that point on he brings light to darkness and happiness to all who meet him. He finds the wheelie people being terrorised by Fenella an evil and frankly hapless witch. She and her minions try every trick and ...
...wheelie friends. But Chorlton always prevails over all of her evil plans. You follow his adventure through 14 episodes on this DVD and kids today would love it, Guaranteed. If Chorlton had been created today the spin off in merchandise would have earned quite a bit with characters such as, Chorton himself, his friends… Zoomer, King Otto and Queen Doris, and Jenny. Equally lucrative would have been the evil ones, Fenella and her cohorts, Claptrap, ...

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Review of Chorlton And The Wheelies - Series 2 (DVD)

Will someone rescue my memories

Advantages: Nice story
Disadvantages: Not the film I remember

After watching The Rescuers last night I decided that some things are best left in the past, because the memories are far better than the reality. Synopsis The film starts with a young girl throwing a bottle off the back of a Mississippi style steam boat, the bottle has a message on it, and through the glass we can see the word 'help'. The bottle drifts downstream and through the waters until it comes to rest close to the home of a few mice. ...
...of mouse delegates from around the world. Bernard the janitor is instructed to retrieve the message, and when he does they can see that it is from an orphaned girl called Penny, who asks for help. Hungarian delegate Miss Bianca offers to undertake the mission, but since this is the first time a female mouse has taken on a mission, Bernard is asked to accompany her. So they set off to the orphanage to find out who Penny is, and why she needs help, ...

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Review of The Rescuers (Animated) (DVD)

I Wish I Had A Dragon

Advantages: well written and preformed tale , quality song score
Disadvantages: widescreen aspect lost to square TV rendering aspect

In 1977, I was six years old a local cinema always ran children's matinees once a month where parents dropped off us kids, who were watched over by ushers, and left us to enjoy the magic show and the movie. This is one of the first films I got to see during one of these events, and while it was a box office failure at the time, I was smitten with the film. I must not have been the only one, as when it appeared not too long after on the TV as part ...
...up, it was a hot topic on the playground. Now, most of the kids I knew had not seen it at the cinema as I had; there was a recession on and cinema tickets and such were simply non essentials. These kids' parents were struggling to make ends meet, so just those of us who had parents with some disposable income could afford the odd treat like this. No matter, see it most everyone I knew did, whether at the cinema or on the TV, and we all loved it. ...

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