Product Details

• Actors: Dr. Frank Baxter, Hans Conried, Cheryl Callaway
• Directors: Robert Sinclair, David Flaherty, Carl S. Clancy
• Format: NTSC
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Peter Rabbit Studios
• DVD Release Date: March 5, 2008
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0015HPS90
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,958 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories of Classroom Science Movies!, March 8, 2008

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Tony Harris (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Alphabet Conspiracy / Science Shorts (DVD)

I remember seeing this movie back in the 6th grade. I always enjoyed the Bell Science Series with Dr. Frank Baxter. Here he teaches a girl who imagines she's Alice in Wonderland about the science of language. It's a delightful mix of film and animation, with the nutty Hans Conreid as the Mad Hatter. This DVD also contains "The Gift of Green", an interesting short about photosynthesis, and "The Adventures of Junior Raindrop", an animated short about a wayward raindrop causing erosion. Fun and informative!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Childhood Reflections, August 3, 2008

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J. Haun "Everyman" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Alphabet Conspiracy / Science Shorts (DVD)

This product, along with its companion DVDs, is a welcome reminder of my childhood. I use to watch the Bell Labs everytime they came on. They make science accessible to everyone and were some of my first memories of getting "into" science. Although a tad outdated in visuals and dialoge, these Bell Lab videos hold up pretty well. We need more of this type of educational feature on TV and in the classrooms, especially since the US has fallen so far behind the rest of the world in science and math. The principles and basic information are the same. The only admonishment I have is the prevailent smoking of Richard Carlson. Get these for your children and watch them together. Far better than most of the childrens programming of today.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and Informative, March 10, 2008

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Victor Costa "Film Student" (Fort Pierce, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Alphabet Conspiracy / Science Shorts (DVD)

Gateways to the Mind / Thread of Life

This Bell Science special manages to entertain and inform. This time the topic is language with Dr. Frank C. Baxter who was an English professor at the University of Southern California. The theme is Alice in Wonderland, with Hans Conried (star of "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T") as the mad hatter. The 2 science shorts included on this disk will make you feel like your back in junior high school dodging spitballs...terrific!