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Episode of Festival of Family Classics by Rankin Bass Studios,
This review is from: Jack O' Lantern [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Let me help you figure out what this item is since it is hard to tell from the listing, especially without a picture. This is a Rankin/Bass animated cartoon, (but not their "Animagic" stop motion features from the 30 minute episodes of the Festival of Family Classics that Rankin/Bass Studios made for television broadcast on ABC in 1972-73. Rankin/Bass made the many great holiday classics we all remember such as Frosty and Rudolph. If you are a fan of their films you will enjoy this great series very much.
This is the fun story of two kids that live on a farm in an area where the crops mysteriously seem to frost up at night even though it is not winter, or seem to burn up at night on other nights, and the local farm families are suffering. The kids carve a Jack O'Lantern to add to their scarecrow hoping that it helps the situation. The pumpkin comes alive and talks to them, and we learn he is a leprechaun that had hibernated in a pumpkin seed over the winter, and took to living in the pumpkin when the seed grew. The kids ask for his help with their crops, and he tells them that a Witch named Zelda and her husband Archibald are behind the crop withering. Jack agrees to fight to save the local farms, but Zelda brings an army of ghosts to help her. Even the farm animals join in to save their farm in this charming little story. Great character design by Paul Coker Jr. Some of the 18 episodes were very much part of Americana with tales from fact and fiction such as Tom Sawyer, the Ballad of Paul Bunyan, Yankee Doodle, Johnny Appleseed, and Hiawatha. The other episodes in the series include classic literature and famous fables: Swiss Family Robinson, Cinderella, Puss `n Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Robinson Crusoe, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Tree, The Arabian Nights, Robin Hood, and two double length episodes - Around the World in 80 Days, and 20,000 Leagues Below the Sea. VERSIONS TO LOOK FOR - The label Prism Entertainment or Video Craft International released these episodes as possibly the first vhs release in a clamshell package as a set of two episodes per vhs tape. For example JackO'Lantern and Yankee Doodle were on one tape. I am unsure of the year of this release since it is not listed on package or tape. These are very good quality video, sound and packaging, and the art on the box is authentic from the film. (There is a bad habit among video companies to use some hack art for animation covers that is not from the film, and makes the film look worse on the cover than what is actually on the tape, seems self defeating to me.) In 1988 Prism and Videocraft (now one word rather than Video Craft) released vhs copies in a slipcover package with one episode per tape, but the artwork on the cover does not look anything like the film. Both of the before mentioned Prism/Videocraft releases also say "Childrens Video Playground" on the front cover. In 1989 "Starmaker Entertainment" released some of the episodes, but their copies are not as good a quality as the Prism copies in my viewing of one episode, Johnny Appleseed. Also their cover art is not from the film and can throw you off. I will update quality and episode details this as I learn more. The most recent vhs re-release is from Anchor Bay Entertainment in 1989 but I am unsure yet of the quality or packaging. Also "Puss-n-Boots" has been recently re-mastered and is featured on DVD as an extra feature on the holiday Animagic release "Here Comes Peter Cottontail" by Golden Books Entertainment who now owns the whole series and is treating their DVD releases very well with extras and remastering. Maybe they will release more of the episodes, hopefully the full 18, remastered on a multi disc DVD set. Maybe you may remember these shows from the opening sequence that had the characters from fables, folk tales, and history walking out of a book and strolling across a rainbow while fireworks went off in the sky, the book opens with the title of the week's episode. I also seem to remember watching reruns in a classroom on 16mm but I could be wrong. It is really great that Amazon has the used feature for buying videos so that completists like me can search for the missing shows from our collections. There is also a good book on Rankin Bass for sale at Amazon, "the Enchanted World of Rankin Bass".
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This review is from: Jack O' Lantern [VHS] (VHS Tape)
at the begginning the tape kept running at first i throught it was my machine but i couldn't find the remote to clear it after about 5 minutes into the program the tape stopped running and proceeded regular speed. fournuatly i have another tape mad monster mash with have jack o lantern as a bonus pic
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