1920? Heavy drape with Latin phrases including “lupus in fabula” and “lupus et agnus.” Backed. 4’4.5” wide; 4’1” high. Unknown source.
I have found several instances of this heavy material on the web. I will quote one of them since I know little about this material: “baroque style, neo-classical style golden fabric. High quality material. The Latin here is curious. I believe I acquired the drape because I noticed the two phrases above; perhaps I assumed that it was fable texts. It is rather a hodgepodge mostly constituted by frequently cited Latin aphorisms. Two of the easiest to recognize are Descartes’ “Cogito ergo sum” and "Tu quoque, Brute, fili mi." The latter is cited in a less known form that our common “Et tu, Brute.” The standard Latin for WL is “Ad rivum eundem lupus et agnus venerant, siti compulsi.” Other recognizable phrases here are “amicus magis necessarius quam ignis et aqua,” “Socratem iustissimum temperantissimumque omnium Graecorum antiqui existimaverunt,” and "Non faciunt meliorem equum aurei freni.”
1986 Fables and Legends: Aesop's Fables, Volume Two. 30 minutes. VHS 80463. Milliken Publishing Company. Universal City, CA: MCA Home Video. $3 from Theresa Thomas, Lakeland, FL, through Ebay, Feb., '00.
Seven stories are offered here: MM, BC, WSC, GGE, DM, MSA, and "The Hare with Many Friends." The same group is around the campfire, but in different positions from those of the first video. They still give the setting before and between the fables. Once a campfire character starts to tell a fable, we switch to watching stills of that fable, done by various visual artists. The voice of the narrator sounds vaguely like that of Leslie Nielson. MM involves a splashing sound-effect decidedly too long for the spilling of a simple pail of milk.
1986 Fables and Legends: Aesop's Fables, Volume One. 30 minutes. VHS 80462. Milliken Publishing Company. Universal City, CA: MCA Home Video. $3 from Theresa Thomas, Lakeland, FL, through Ebay, Feb., '00.
Six stories are offered here: "The Lion and the Statue," LM, TH, DS, BW, and "The Fox and the Goat." A videographed group around a campfire gives the setting before and between the fables. Once a campfire character starts to tell a fable, we switch to watching stills of that fable, done by various visual artists. The voice of the narrator sounds vaguely like that of Leslie Nielson.
1977 Fables and Fun, Vol. 2. Paperbound. Minneapolis: Marketing Ventures. $6.47 from spittinunagecards through eBay, Nov., '13.
Here is one of two volumes in one of three sets. This landscape volume 9" x 8¼" has the same cover picture featuring a monkey, a lion, a mouse, and a boy removing a thorn. The pamphlet contains nineteen fables with a T of C on the back cover. The following are illustrated: "The Eagle and the Arrow"; WSC; The Fox and the Lion"; 2P; "The Old Hound"; "The Viper and the File"; DS; "The Snake and the Crab"; "The Monkey and the Camel"; and "The Fowler and the Ringdove." The narrations tend to the colloquial. Several morals are either catchy or unusual. Thus WSC moralizes "The advantage gained by lying only lasts until the truth is found out." DS has this rather strange moral: "All that glitters is not meat in the water." "The Monkey and the Camel" is followed by "Wanting applause and winning it are two different things." "The Fowler and the Ringdove" is particularly pithy: "If you make trouble you will get into trouble." The book is accompanied by a flexible 33 rpm record containing all nineteen fables. The line drawings would be suitable for crayoning. WSC and DS have full-page drawings that may be the best of this lot. The two volumes are enclosed in a sleeve. I will leave the records with their volumes. It would be a miracle to find those other two sets!
