Product Details

• Actors: Baby Einstein
• Directors: Jim Janicek
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: March 16, 2004
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (144 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000DJZC9
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,486 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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• For more information about "Baby Einstein - Baby MacDonald - A Day on the Farm" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

• This item is part of The Baby Einstein Library Series.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The beauty of this entry in the Baby Einstein catalog is its integration of puppets, toys, and live farm footage to help babies and toddlers make the connection between their plastic play sets and stuffed animals with images of a real farm. As always, the spoken language is minimal, omitting the pesky verbs and adjectives that would confuse the very young. The 30-minute main program is divided into sections: barns and equipment, animals, planting crops, and harvesting. Background music ranges from "Old MacDonald" to Schumann, and DVD extras include a 6-minute puppet show and visual "discovery cards" identifying animals and farm paraphernalia with a single word. (Ages 6 months to 3 years) --Kimberly Heinrichs

Product Description

A fun-filled introduction to the sights and sounds of a farm!
-- Presents little ones with the sights and sounds of a farm
-- Shows babies where some of their favorite foods come from

As little ones' curiosity about the world blossoms, you can help sow the seeds of discovery with Baby MacDonald: A Day on the Farm. Featuring live-action images, nursery rhymes and fun-filled puppet shows, this playful, interactive program introduces little ones to the exciting sights and sounds of a real working farm. Get ready to meet the animals, plant the crops, ride on a tractor, celebrate the harvest and much more!
DVD Features
-- Repeat play
-- Language tracks (Spanish, French and English)
-- Discovery cards
-- "Old MacDonald" sing along
-- Puppet shows
-- Show time with Baby MacDonald on the farm

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Old McDonald Had a Video, August 31, 2006

By	L. Hawkins "Laura Wilde" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Baby MacDonald: A Day on the Farm is a multiple award-winning DVD that's a fun-filled introduction to the sights and sounds of a farm. Featuring live-action images of farms and farm animals interspersed with engaging visuals of puppets, children, toys, and real-world objects, it combines traditional nursery rhymes with the classical music of Schubert, Schumann and Strauss. This DVD has a calming effect on your baby while stimulating their early verbal skills. It's appropriate for introduction to baby around the age of 9 months but will continue to entertain through their second year.


Most of the videos in the Baby Einstein series are designed as `video board books' for your baby and offer you the opportunity to interact with your child in the same way you do with books as well as act as a distraction for that deeply needed parental bathroom break. Most of the DVDs have the option to "play" or "repeat play" and are about 20-30 minutes in length -- the repetition being very stimulating and comforting to the younger set.

While I don't think viewing Baby Einstein DVDs will make my infant "smarter" she sure does enjoy them! They give me a great way to interact with her as well as a few minutes here and there to get a few things done around the house. Their ability to calm her when she's fussy is already legendary in our household.

Here is information on all the current 21 Baby Einstein DVDs including suggested times to introduce them to your little one. This information IS NOT available with the DVD sets but I gleaned it from several sources for my own use. You may like to print this out for future reference.

Note: All the Baby Einstein DVDs are "region 1" which means they only play on machines in the U.S. and Canada.

Information on each video is divided into categories of age appropriateness:

From Birth and Up
* Baby Bach
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Engages your newborn/infant through sights and sounds
- uses colorful real-world objects for visual scenes
- Appropriate from birth and up
*Baby Mozart Music Festival
- An award winning DVD
- Introduces your baby to the classical music of Mozart with visually stimulating real-world objects on screen
- From birth and up

Age 1 month and Up
*Baby Beethoven Symphony of Fun
- An award winning DVD
- Featuring the compositions of Beethoven
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up
*Language Nursery
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Exposes your baby to sounds of seven different languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, German, and Japanese
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up
*Baby Santa's Music Box
- Joyeux Noel! Feliz Navidad! Buon Natale! Merry Christmas!
- Celebrate with holiday musical sounds from around the world
- Appropriate for ages 1 month and up

Age 6 Months and Up
*Baby Monet
- An award winning DVD
- A musical introduction to the four seasons
- Features the music of Vivaldi
- Appropriate from 6 months and up

Age 9 Months and Up
*Baby da Vinci From Head to Toe
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to their eyes, ears, hands, feet, and more.
- Features Spanish, English and French language tracks for added learning.
- Set to the music of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up.
*Baby MacDonald A Day on the Farm
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A fun-filled introduction to the sights and sounds of a farm
- Features live-action images and engaging visuals of puppets, children, toys, and real-world objects
- Combines traditional nursery rhymes with the classical music of Schubert, Schumann and Strauss
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up
*Baby Galileo Discovering the Sky
- An award winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to the sky and solar system
- Features captivating footage of the sky, planets, and galaxies
- Features musical scores by Mozart, Chopin, Strauss and Tchaikovsky
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up
*Baby Neptune Discovering Water
- An award winning DVD
- Baby's first introduction to water
- Features the melodic scores of Handel's Water Music
- Appropriate for ages 9 months and up

Age 1 Year +
*Baby's Favorite Places
- A playful introduction to words and sign language - my street to main street
- 12 Months +
*Baby Einstein Meet the Orchestra - First Instruments
- First Instruments introduces your toddler to musical instruments that make up an orchestra and the different sounds that they make.
- Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning
- Uses real-life images with classical music by Beethoven, Brahms, Joplin, Haydn, Mozart, and Strauss.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Einstein On The Go -- Riding, Sailing, and Soaring
- An award winning DVD
- A musical introduction to transportation and "things that go."
- Features multi-language viewing options in English, French, and Spanish for added learning.
- Uses real-life images with classical music by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, and Rossini.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Wordsworth First Words - Around the House
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A musical introduction to baby's first words and communication
- Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks
- Includes the music of Bach, Bizet, and Schubert.
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Noah Animal Expedition
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- A musical introduction to animals around the globe
- Features bonus language learning with Spanish, French and English tracks
- Includes the music of Beethoven, Mozart, and Strauss
- Appropriate from 1 year
*Baby Newton Discovering Shapes
- A multiple award-winning DVD
- Introduces your toddler to five shapes
- Features many of Vivaldi's favorite compositions
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Baby Shakespeare World of Poetry
- An award winning DVD
- Poetry in Motion with real world images
- Features award winning Baby Beethoven soundtrack
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Baby Van Gogh World of Colors
- An award winning DVD
- Exposes your baby to the wonder of color through Van Gogh's artwork
- Introduces your baby to classical music selections from Van Gogh's era
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Neighborhood Animals
- An award winning DVD
- Meet animals that live in and around the home
- This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein Animal Discovery Cards
- Engaging music from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*Numbers Nursery
- An award winning DVD
- A playful and interactive introduction to the numbers 1 through 5
- Uses familiar, real-world objects to show what numbers mean
- Features the melodic scores of Haydn, Chopin, Strauss, and Schubert
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up
*World Animals
- Discover animals from the jungle, savannah and ocean
- This DVD compliments the Baby Einstein World Animal Discovery Cards
- Features music from the 19th and early 20th centuries
- Appropriate for ages 1 year and up

69 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rated Ages 6 months to 24 months, April 14, 2004

By	Amanda Richards "Modest to the extreme" (Georgetown, Guyana) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The good things about this DVD are:

1. The animals
2. The farm scenes, especially the ones that show the various methods of ploughing the fields.
3. The puppet skits don't repeat the same thing over and over again.
4. The Old MacDonald song
5. The song set to the Farmer in the Dell tune.
6. The pigs sliding into the mud puddle.
7. Has some good extras and not just flash cards and toy lists.

The not-so-good things about this DVD:

1. Too much of the music is slow, when it should be upbeat. Why plough to a lullaby?
2. Younger children like it, but it's not easy adult viewing. This DVD puts me to sleep.
3. Some of the content is for babies, some for toddlers, but as a whole it doesn't hold the interest over 24 months.

My son is now too old for the Baby Einstein series, and it's time to move on. It's been a great three years, and definitely essential viewing for children.

Thank you Baby Einstein, and goodbye.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ee-eye Ee-eye Wonderful!, March 1, 2005

By	Doctor Quartz (Huntington Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This is one of my top five DVD's in the Einstein series. It has an absolutely dreamy, breathtaking, peter-pan fly-over of a farm that goes on forever. Fantastic shots of cows, old farmhouses, and the requisite sing along that inspires my babies to harmonize. It's a guilty pleasure that I love to watch just as much as my three kids. God Bless Julie Clark for this series. I hope she got rich off of it.