Editorial Product Review: essential video:Two of the all-time cartoon classics It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (a Peabody and Emmy winner from 1965) highlight this three-disc, six-episode set. Although the DVDs contain no extras (good grief!) and could have been combined on a single disc (drat!), the collection looks and sounds wonderful on DVD. The content is the same on the VHS and DVD sets, with two episodes per tape or disc. Accompanying Pumpkin is You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown, ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:The first Baby Einstein video is packaged together with three more videos: 'Baby Bach,' 'Baby Newton,' and 'Baby Shakespeare.' The age target for 'Einstein' is 1 to 18 months, 'Bach' is 1 to 36 months, and 'Newton' and Shakespeare' are targeted for 12-48 month crowd.
Editorial Product Review: :In the mid-1980s, Saturday morning television was turned upside down by the brash arrival of Pee-wee Herman (comedian Paul Reubens) and his dreamlike playhouse. What sets Pee-wee apart from the rest of the Saturday morning pack is his universal appeal to kids, teens, and adults. Kids love the bright cartoony colors, the word of the day (accompanied by screams whenever anyone utters it), and the animated residents of the playhouse; teens find in him a hip icon; and adults savor the sophisticated humor, sunny ...
Editorial Product Review: :In the mid-1980s, Saturday morning television was turned upside down by the brash arrival of Pee-wee Herman (comedian Paul Reubens) and his dreamlike playhouse. What sets Pee-wee apart from the rest of the Saturday morning pack is his universal appeal to kids, teens, and adults. Kids love the bright cartoony colors, the word of the day (accompanied by screams whenever anyone utters it), and the animated residents of the playhouse; teens find in him a hip icon; and adults savor the sophisticated humor, sunny ...
Editorial Product Review: :This boxed set contains six episodes of The Simpsons: 'There's No Disgrace Like Home' (the Simpsons shock each other at a shrink's office); 'Life on the Fast Lane' (Marge takes bowling lessons from--and nearly is seduced by--Albert Brooks as a French bowling pro); 'Bart the General' (Bart plays Patton in his effort to beat bully Nelson Muntz); 'Moaning Lisa' (Lisa's jazz hero, Bleeding Gums Murphy, is introduced); 'The Crepes of Wrath' (Bart is a foreign-exchange student and winds up as a slave in France); ...
Editorial Product Review: essential video:The first three Wallace & Gromit shorts are grouped together in a single volume. A Grand Day Out Nominated for an Academy Award in 1990, this was the first short-film adventure starring Wallace & Gromit. This 24-minute comedy was created by clay animator Nick Park over a six-year period at the National Film and Television School in London and at the Aardman Animation studios, which Park boosted to international acclaim. In their debut adventure, Wallace and his furry pal Gromit are planning ...
Editorial Product Review: :If you grew up in the '70s and glued yourself to the television every Saturday morning, bowl of cereal in hand, then you are most definitely familiar with the world of Sid & Marty Krofft. A live-action oasis in a desert of anemic animated programming, the shows of the messrs. Krofft were marked by outlandish fantasy plots, otherworldly monsters, horrible costumes, mediocre production values, zealous if cheesy acting, and numerous adolescent actors with which the young target audience could identify. And they were incredibly ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:In celebration of Pixar's 15th Anniversary, Walt Disney Home Video and Pixar Animation Studios have brought together the fantastic animated films TOY STORY, A BUG'S LIFE, and TOY STORY 2 -- three of the most beloved computer-animated films ever made -- in one collection. All three films feature pristine digital presentation created directly from the digital source and Dolby Digital sound. Also included are the Academy Award(R)-winning shorts 'Tin Toy' and 'Geri's Game,' and the Academy Award-nominated short 'Luxo Jr.,' as well as hilarious ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:The Between the Lions Vowels set is a great way to teach kids about the vowels and help them learn to read. This set of five videos includes The Ram in the Pepper Patch (featuring the short 'a'), Red Hat, Green Hat (featuring the short 'e'), Little Big Mouse (featuring the short 'i'), The Lost Rock (featuring the short 'o'), and The Lucky Duck (featuring the short 'u').
The Web Services Policy Working Group has published two Web Services Policy 1.5 - Working Drafts: an update to the Primer and a First Public Working Draft of Guidelines for Policy Assertion Authors. The new Guidelines document provides ...