Aesop's Fables

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1974 Aesop's Fables. Group I. Six captioned filmstrips with six cassettes. Distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation. Pomfret Center, CT: Pomfret House. Previously in the Omaha Public Library. $6.90 at Antiquarium, May, '94. Extra copy of the filmstrip and cassette of DS for $3 from R. Korenich, North Port, FL, through Ebay, May, '00.

The two sides of the tapes are for manual and automatic slide forwarding. Good sound effects and music. Generally a bit scratched up from wear. The stories tend to be elaborated.

FC: 4:30. 27 illustrations. Well told.

BW: 4:42. 29 illustrations. The first time, the men did not realize that the boy had been fooling them. The second time they did. In the end, all the sheep were killed. "Don't ask for help when you don't need it."

LM: 4:43. 27 illustrations. The mouse is climbing the biggest stone he has ever seen; it turns out to be the lion's nose. The mouse later just happens to come to where the lion is trapped. "No one is too small to be able to help a friend."

DS: 3:36. 22 illustrations. This dog has no name or home. He has to find his own food. He finds a piece of meat behind a meat market and takes it to a pond, at the shores of which he has his problems. One extra copy for $3 from R. Korenich, North Port, FL, through Ebay, May, '00.

TH: 4:17. 28 illustrations. Bad art work on the hare here.

TMCM: 3:32. 26 illustrations. In the city, they go through a door with a key. A dog and a cat intrude. The mouse leaves without a word of farewell. "It is better to have a few things and be happy than to have many things and be unhappy."

Date

1974

Citation

“Aesop's Fables,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed October 16, 2024, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/558.

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