Golden Book Video

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Golden Book Videos are a series of children’s animated videos with short stories based on characters and plots from Little Golden Books and other children’s literature. There are also videos made specifically for educational lessons. They were originally released on VHS Video Cassette. Most of the story video covers have the following text in their titles: "A Golden Book Video: Storybooks Brought to Life".

These videos often featured a full voice cast accompanied with original songs (that sometimes had sing-along lyrics appearing on the screen), along with "needle-drop" library background music cues in the background. Original illustrations from the books were used, often being accompanied by cheesy limited animation effects (somewhat resembling Flash animation), often mainly to have characters' eyes blink during extended shots of them, or having them slide by or move up and down to simulate walking. Animation effects were provided by David Kallaher Inc. and Animagination Inc., with soundtracks done by Tarrytunes, Studio Consultants and Universal Recording, among others. Many scenes in these video adaptions often carried some original material that was not present in the original books.

Contents 1 List of videos in series 1.1 Non-Animated Video 2 Golden Book Video Classic 3 External links and references

[edit] List of videos in series

Some of the videos titles, and the stories contained in them, are listed below:

• Favorite Stories : 3 Stories - Approx 30 MIN.

1. "Scuffy the Tugboat" (by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely)
2. "What Was That!"
3. "Theodore Mouse Goes to Sea"

• Favorite Stories: 5 Sesame Street Stories

1. "The Origins of Super-Grover"
2. "Super-Grover and the Speeding Sled"
3. "Super-Grover and the Three Bears"
4. "Super-Grover and the Hole Story" (AKA "Gone Fishing")
5. "Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street"

• Sesame Street : 3 Stories, featuring Jim Henson’s Sesame Street Muppets - Approx 30 MIN.

1. "Everyone Makes Mistakes"
2. "The City Worm and the Country Worm"
3. "Wanted: The Great Cookie Thief"

• Mercer Mayer: 3 Stories - Approx. 30 MIN.

1. "Herbert the Timid Dragon"
2. "Just for You" (featuring Little Critter)
3. "How the Trollusk Got His Hat"

- Re-released in 1991 as Herbert the Timid Dragon and Other Tales

• Amye Rosenberg’s : 3 Stories

1. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"
2. "Polly's Pet"
3. "The Little Red Hen"

• 3 Richard Scarry Tales

1. "Old McDonald's Farm"
2. "The Wolf and the Kids"
3. "The Musicians of Bremen"

• Hugga Bunch: Meet the Hugga Bunch

1. "Hugs from the Heart"
2. "Huggins and Kisses"
3. "Hugs for Grandma"

• Masters of the Universe 1

1. "The Caverns of Fear"
2. "In the Land of the Shadows"
3. "The Sword of Knowledge"
4. "The Eye of Eternia"

• Masters of the Universe 2

1. "The Rock Warriors"
2. "Demons of the Deep"
3. "The Maze of Doom"

• She-Ra: Princess of Power

1. "The Sword of She-Ra"
2. "Glimmer of Hope"
3. "Fear Factory"

• Jungle Animal Tales: 3 Stories

1. "The Saggy Baggy Elephant" (written by Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren)
2. "The Tawny Scrawny Lion" (by Kathryn Jackson and Gustaf Tenggren)
3. "Rupert the Rhinoceros" (by Carl Memling and Tibor Gergely)

-Re-released as Tawny Scrawny Lion's Jungle Tales in the Golden Book Video Classic series.

• Sylvanian Families

1. "The Wheel Thing"
2. "Muddy Waters"
3. "Beauty and the Beasts"

• Pound Puppies: 3 Stories - 1986, Approx 30 MIN.

1. "The Gate Crashers"
2. "Snowball the Wonder Dog"
3. "The Puppy Who Couldn't Remember"

• Favorite Fairy Tales : 3 Stories - Approx Running Time : 30 min

1. "Cinderella"
2. "The Elves and the Shoemaker"
3. "The Golden Goose"

• A Step Ahead Video - 1989, Approx 60 MIN.

1. "Working with Words!" - Groucho & Olivia discover making words & sentences can be a real adventure!
2. "Working with Numbers!" - Meggie and kids put on a snappy revue showing Math can be lots of fun in The Rainy Day Number Show
3. "Get Ready to Read"

• History Rock : Schoolhouse Rock Video - 1987, ABC, Golden Book Video; Approx. 32 Minutes - Academy Award Winner Cloris Leachman and a group of young friends share a lively half hour of catchy songs & sketches that make learning about History fun and easy!

1. "No More Kings" - The Founding of America
2. "Fireworks" - Declaration of Independence
3. "The Shot Heard Round the World" - Start of the Revolution
4. "The Preamble" - The United States Constitution
5. "Elbow Room" - The pioneers opening the west
6. "Great American Melting Pot" - The ethnic diversity of America
7. "Mother Necessity" - Great american inventors
8. "Sufferin’ Till Sufferage" - Women's right to vote
9. "I'm Just a Bill" - How a bill becomes law

• Golden Book Music Video: 23 Sing, Giggle, & Grin Songs

• Golden Book Music Video: See, Sing and Play

• Golden Book Music Video: Songs from Mother Goose

• Campfire Thrillers

[edit] Non-Animated Video

• Kim & Jerry Brodey

"Hats on / Hats Off ...To a World of Music, Mime and Imagination with Kim & Jerry"

[edit] Golden Book Video Classic

There is also the series of videos entitled A Golden Book Video Classic. Some VHS videos in the series are entitled:

• The Poky Little Puppy's First Christmas

• Three Sesame Street Stories

• Richard Scarry's Old MacDonald's Farm and Other Animal Tales

• Beauty and the Beast - Approx 30 MIN.

1. "Beauty and the Beast" - In order to save her father's life, the gentle Beauty must live in a castle of the ugly Beast. Through the Beast is kind, and tries in every way to make her happy, Beauty cannot bring herself to love him. Finally, as he lay dying, Beauty gives the beast a kiss which breaks the spell and magically transforms him into the handsome prince he once was.
2. "The Silver Pony" - A young farmboy daydreams about a beautiful, enchanted pony a pony with wings. The boy climbs upon his back, and they fly high above the treetops. Together, they bring happiness to four very different people. The boy's daydream is wonderful, but it ends all to soon, and the boy wakes up despondent and alone. But there is a wonderful surprise waiting for him as he approaches the once empty corral. Could it be that his day dream has come true?
3. "The Practical Princess"

• Merry Mother Goose - Approx 30 MIN.

1. "Merry Mother Goose"
2. "Mrs. Mooley"
3. "There's No Such Thing as a Dragon" (by Jack Kent

• Bible Heroes - 1990, Approx 30 MIN.

1. "Noah's Ark"
2. "David and Goliath"
3. "The Story of Jonah"

[edit] External links and references

• The Official "Little Golden Books" Page |