Starring: Orson Welles, June Foray, Les Tremayne, Michael LeClair, Shepard Menken Directed By: Chuck Jones Average Rating: Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Release Date: August 17, 1999 Running Time: 30 minutes Studio: Family Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 1975
Amazon.com: Rudyard Kipling's classic story comes to delightful life with this wonderful animated short combining the estimable talents of narrator Orson Welles and director Chuck Jones (the genius behind many of the best Warner Bros. cartoons). Blending action, humor, and a few (thankfully noncloying) songs, this daydream of an adventure from the author of The Jungle Book details the efforts of a frisky mongoose sworn to defend his adopted family from a garden full of cobras. This is bound to fascinate and entertain both kids and adults who are interested in nature's struggles, although parents may wish to watch it with younger children who possess a fear of snakes. --Andrew Wright
Great classics tied up in one DVD ^ Absolutely loved Rikki Tikki Tavi as a kid and wanted to get it for my children...love that it was bundled up w/ other classics - felt like I got my money's worth and my children loves it.
For Teachers: Comparison to Originals ^ My students were reading Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book. When we got to chapters that were on this video, we would read the story, watch the movie, and the students wrote comparison paragraphs of the movie to the book. At the end of watching the three Kipling shows, we compiled the students' paragraphs, wrote intros and conclusions, and published their completed papers. The students learned about making a story "kid friendly" and how tradition sometimes overtakes reality.
Great Collection. ^ I used to watch these on VHS over 15 years ago. It's great to have on DVD and in such good quality!
A Master of Animation, Phantom Tollbooth ^ Chuck Jones created the Looney Tunes characters. He says, "We understand failure much better than we do success," and yet he achieved great success against all odds. He discribes his cruel father as a disappointed intellectual. From his vivid imagination, he shares his memories of childhood where he created his friends and foes. Everyone needs heroes; mine was Mac Arthur who had a good mother.
A lot of his drawings are of the cat. In many of his features, cats take possession. Cats are individuals. Jeff and Zach loved the "Phantom Tollbooth" as their dad was a college English professor. It was one of Chuck Jones' major successes, this survey of the English language. The young actor who played Eddie in the Munsters TV show and was delightful --but where'd he get those blue eyes. This non-Looney Tune story is as much fun to an adult as it is to children. Chuck Jones died in 2002. Even with an unhappy background, he came up with a varied cast of characters from Bugs Bunny to the Roadrunner.
cartoon classic ^ I remembered this from my childhood and had to buy it for my own children. Kids like it just like I did. Good "old" cartoon.
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