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Schoolhouse Rock! (Special 30th Anniversary Edition)
List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $22.49
DVD - 27 August, 2002
Walt Disney Home Video
NR (Not Rated)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Director: Tom Warburton
Number of Media: 2
Features: - Animated
- Color
- Closed-captioned
- Dolby
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| DVD Description It's a good bet that any American kid growing up in the '70s or '80s learned some elementary lesson from the seminal musical series Schoolhouse Rock!. Airing from 1973 to 1984 (and often revived), the ABC Saturday morning shorts effortlessly introduced kids to grammar, science, multiplication, money, and American history--three minutes at a time. In one smart, comprehensive 2-disc set, all 46 songs and plenty of extras are collected. The four creators developed the series slowly, a welcome diversion from their advertising agency jobs, and ended up taking home four Emmys over the years. The background material includes 10 audio commentaries and a making-of feature for the new song, "I'm Gonna Send Your Vote to College." The DVD subtitle option is a great bonus for those who need to know every word from such favorites as "Three Is a Magic Number," "Interjections," "I'm Just a Bill," and "Conjunction Junction." (Ages 3 and older) --Doug Thomas |
| Reviews from Customers
Timeless learning As a child, I learned the Preamble to the Constitution by singing "We the People". Now that knowledge is passed on to another generation. My kids have learned it the same way, and I have bought one extra set of "Schoolhouse Rock" for each of my kids so that it can be passed onto a third generation when I become a grandfather. Some things are completely timeless. America Rock will be relevant for one hundred years or more, and Multiplication Rock will be relevant for at least a thousand.
Wonderful! I love this set....we had the VHS that had the top 20 "best of" on it and the kids wore it out. I was happy to get this. It's fun and educational...I don't feel bad putting in this DVD for them.
Nothing out there today compares with these short vids I read a bunch of the reviews for the Schoolhouse Rock DVDs before buying them, but knew I would get them anyway. And I'm glad I did.
Our three kids, 11, 8, and 5, all love these and have hardly stopped watching them since they arrived. That's fairly typical with new videos or DVDs, but this is the first one we've bought where the kids walk around singing about adjectives, the shot heard 'round the world, how electricity works, and interplanet Janet.
Face it. Anyone who watched Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s and 80s probably can still recite the preamble to the US Constitution. And tell you where the piece of paper in "I'm just a Bill" is sitting. And with a bit of coaching, could tell you what the function of conjunctions is. ("Hookin' up words and phrases and clauses," for those who never saw them.)
I haven't seen anything out there today that compares with these as far as teaching kids useful information in an entertaining way. My kids love them. My wife and I still love them. And there are a couple of new ones, including one about the electoral college, and an even better one about Tyrannosaurus Debt, the US deficit, how it started, and how it keeps growing.
I had no trouble with the jukebox format or navigating my way around. I was surprised how easy it was based on some of the other reviews, but no problems here.
If you ever watched these when you were a kid, get these DVDs. If you have kids, get these DVDs. If you've never heard of them but want to watch some entertaining, short, educational cartoons, get these DVDs.
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