Laserdisc Title: "RED RIDING HOOD AND GOLDILOCKS"
Edition: Fullscreen Edition (Single Disc)
Directed By: C. W. Rogers
Read By: Meg Ryan
Special Features: ------
Production / Year: 1990 Rabbit Ears Productions, Inc.
Running Time: 27 Minutes / Color
Audio Format: Digital Sound, Stereo, CX Encoded
Video Format: NTSC, CAV (Standard Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Closed Captioned
Distributed By: Image Entertainment
Catalog / Spine Number: ID8450SO

IMPORTANT: This is a 12-inch Diameter Laserdisc, which is NOT the same as DVD and cannot be played on a DVD player!

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Excellent - Hardly noticeable to very minor hairline surface swirls, if any (Disc Manufactured in Japan)
Jacket: Very Good - Normal shelf wear, few creases, light scuffs, slightly worn-out corners or edges and small split middle of bottom spine

Synopsis:

Rabbit Ears' "Red Riding Hood" and "Goldilocks" are based on the original Brothers Grimm fairy tales, not the sugarcoated tales popular in modern times. Adapted by Tom Roberts, these classic stories benefit from some new twists and a good measure of added humor.

Meg Ryan's enthusiastic narration showcases her storytelling talents and is accompanied by wonderful drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi and effective, original music by Art Lande. In "Red Riding Hood," Red is enticed deep into the woods by the Wolf's suggestion that Grandmother might enjoy a bouquet of wildflowers with her bread and sweets. The wolf then proceeds to eat Red and her Grandmother in a single gulp.

The words here are graphic, but the pictures (thankfully) leave the gory details to the viewer's imagination. In this version, the Woodsman rescues Red and Grandmother by slitting open the wolf's stomach and pulling the pair out; then he fills the wolf's stomach with rocks. He leaves Grandmother's house with an added bonus--a new fur coat.

"Goldilocks" evinces a more liberal rewriting--she's depicted as a headstrong, extremely spoiled child who lives in the Deep South. Folksy Southern accents and slang abound. For instance, Goldilocks heads into the woods and "takes off like a jackrabbit in coyote country." Other minor language changes, such as "the big bowl of porridge, the sorta big bowl, and the not big at all bowl" lend a folksy, casual feel to a traditional tale.

In this version, Goldilocks and the bears grow from their interaction with one another--Goldilocks stops her stubborn ways and becomes an obedient child, and the three bears learn to lock their door. Like all the videos in the award-winning Rabbit Ears series, this pairing is a wonderful presentation of two cherished, classic tales.

THIS IS NOT A DVD!!! THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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