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Peter & the Wolf Disney Favorite Stories [VHS]

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This is one of the most endearing and enduring Disney cartoons ever! Serge Prokofieff's timeless music orchestrates the Russian folk tale of little Peter and his "hunting party" who go off to trap the big bad wolf. Sterling Holloway's voice is perfect as narrator. Each character in the tale has his/her own theme played by a different orchestral instrument - teaching the viewer to distinguish sounds and themes while enjoying the show. Warning: As a child (many, many years ago) I found Sonia the Duck's encounter with the snapping, snarling, hungry Wolf much scarier and distressing than Oz's Wicked Witch of the West and her Flying Monkeys - so you might want to pre-view this before showing it to a very young child.

Also included on the video are the cute and funny "Silly Symphony" a non-verbal lesson in international harmony and "Music Land" featuring favorite Disney cartoon characters.

If you like this video, I recommend you also try the CD "Heigh-Ho! Mozart."

This title is not available alone on DVD but you can buy "MAKE MINE MUSIC". This is an old title from Disney and it includes "Peter and the Wolf".

Peter and the Wolf is a great way to introduce the instruments of the orchestra to children. They love the animation, the characters, the movie, all of it! In addition, they learn to recognize the sounds of the various instruments, without even realizing they are learning. My music students begged me to show the video a second time during our music camp this summer. It's a great way to get kids interested in the classics!

This simple, beautiful cartoon, based on the Russian symphony, is sweet and innocent and can be enjoyed by all ages. Little Peter goes wolf-hunting with his friends, the cat, the duck, and the bird, and they find him! The kids will enjoy the animation, you'll like the music...this is a classic!

My mother watched this movie as a little girl, and her love for it passed on to me. Now I have a copy (thanks to amazon) for MY little girl, and she watches it constantly. We also own the musical soundtrack, and I found the storybook that came with the movie to be delightful as well. This is a charming, must have for your video library!

This is a wonderful video for children to gain an early appreciation for symphonic music. The story is fun, and most of the characters are endearing, sans the wolf of course. The characters are also well represented by their respective focal instrument (e.g. Peter-violin, grandfather-bassoon, etc.) I watched this tale on the 'old film-projector' every year in my music class as a youngster and still remember it fondly.

Peter and the Wolf is one of the greatest Disney classics ever done, I feel that it should be put somewhere in between the standings of Mickey and the Beanstalk and the Brave Tailor.

This is an awesome film. The musical score, narration and animation blend together beautifully in telling Prokofiev's classic story. My only warning is that some parts of the film are quite frightening. Unless you know they won't get overly scared, I wouldn't recommend showing this to your kids until they're at least 8. I first saw it when I was 5-ish, and the wolf absolutely terrified me. Afterwards, if anyone did so much as hum the music from the film, I'd freak out. I'm 18 and I still haven't totally gotten over it. So just use good judgement when showing this to young children. Otherwise, its fantastic.

This is a VHS of the original broadcast of Walt Disney's animation of the story of Peter and the Wolf.

It was purchased to show our granddaughter before going to the Colorado Symphony to hear the Prokovfiev Concert of Peter and the Wolf.

It is everything I remember about the original broadcast.

I really like Disney's Peter and The Wolf. I remember seeing this in school, I think it was the music teacher who showed it to us. It was very entertaining!