Movie Short: What Was I Scared Of? by Dr. Seuss

This is a good reading of the story, using the original pictures of Dr. Seuss for animation.

Movie Review: Blind Love (1979)

This short move is based on a true story written by Ray H. Walton.  It is an LDS produced movie and tells a very important story of love.  I really like Barta Heiner's portrayal of the wife.  Maikel Justis plays the blind husband, who through surgery is about to see his wife for the first time.  The wife has always considered herself plain, and has been withdrawn.  Somehow she feels her husband might not love her so much if he had his sight.  I like this movie because it lets us know we are all of worth.  We are all Heavenly Father's children.

Movie Short: Toward a Theory of the Evolution of the Turkey

This short is a bit hard for me to wrap my head around.  It is almost more like a 1960s pot trip, centered around the drawing of a turkey.  The turkey happens to have a baritone saxophone attached to his beak, and loves to play.  The girl also draws a turkey spider with a mean kind of bass, and then she plays drums while they perform.  There is something about rescuing the first turkey from a cage, but that is just strange.

Movie Short: Dr Seuss' The Zax

This animated short is a good demonstration of what happens when we refuse to compromise.  Stubbornness and arrogance do not lead to good results.  
The world goes on, but sometimes we do not.

Movie Review: Dr Suess - Green Eggs And Ham

This is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss stories.  This animated version tells the story as written by Dr. Seuss, just adding a little jingle.
The best version of this story I have heard was at Camp High Sierra when the camp director recited the story for us.  It was very fun.  This was in the cafeteria.
Of course the theme of this movie is sometimes if we try things we find we like things we haven't tried before.

Movie Review: Dr Seuss' The Sneetches Full Version YouTube

This is one of Dr. Seuss' more important works.  In this movie he explores prejudice and bias.  The star-bellied sneetches feel they are superior.  The look down upon those sneetches without stars, feel their children should not play with them, and try to exclude them from their activities including bonfires on the beech.  They are determined to keep their differentness, even if they go broke trying to maintain it.  It is only after they go broke that the learn the lesson, that a sneetch is a sneetch no matter whether he has stars on his belly, or his butt or none at all and they should treat each other with respect.  I think that is an important lesson.

The Little Match Girl 3D

This is another Little Match Girl, with Vietnamese titles.  However as this is also a non verbal version it works.  This version leaves off the grandmother carrying the little girl to heaven, which is my favorite part.

Hans Christian Andersen Stories: Short Movies: Nightingale; the Little Match Girl, The Red Shoes

This is a collection of three Hans Christian Andersen shorts by Critic's Choice
Nightingale: This short is actually very entertaining.  It places this story as an essay on the Japanese emperor, and his relationship with a nightingale who sings beautifully.  However the nightingale insists on being free, and sometimes this is hard if you are the emperor and want to have the nightingale sing at will.  He chases the bird away, for a wind-up nightingale.  However this bird breaks, and so finally he has nothing.  He becomes sick, but the nightingale returns and sings to revive the emperor.

The Little Match Girl:  This is a very good presentation of this classic story, with a different ending.  It puts the emphasis on the homeless, and how we usually ignore them.  However in this case this is corrected as the match Girl almost dies, but they people repent of their callous ways after seeing her blue and cold.

The Red Shoes.  This short I didn't care for because a family changes it's outlook on life by winning the lottery.  However the art is very good, and the story of a friendship restored is also fun.  It is interesting how the red shoes play a part in this.