Schoolhouse rock!

Author

David B McCall

Call Number

• DVD CHILDREN/FAMILY (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

Edition

Special 30th anniversary ed.

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Various performers.

Publication Information

Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2002]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (ca. 283 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Summary

Collection of animated, musical shorts on the topics of science, multiplication, money, American history and politics, and English grammar.

Notes

Title from container.

"Includes every Schoolhouse Rock song ever created"--Container.

Educational shorts originally produced for television and broadcast from 1973 to 1996.

Special features: The original 46 animated songs ; all-new song "I'm gonna send your vote to college" ; play-all feature ; shuffle-all feature ; Rockin' top 10 jukebox ; the long-lost song "The weather show" ; "Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips" 3-song set ; behind-the-scenes footage ; Top 20 countdown ; "Earn your diploma" trivia game ; Arrange-a-song puzzles ; 4 music videos by contemporary artists ; Emmy Awards featurette ; Nike commercial of "Three is a magic number" ; audio commentaries ; 5.1 DTS of all-new song "I'm gonna send your vote to college."

Contents

• Grammar rock: Unpack your adjectives ; Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, get your adverbs here ; Conjunction junction ; Interjections! ; Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla ; Verb : that's what's happening ; A noun is a person, place or thing ; Busy propositions ; The tale of Mr. Morton
• Science rock: The body machine ; Do the circulation ; Electricity, electricity ; The energy blues ; Interplanet Janet ; Telegraph line ; Them not-so-dry bones ; A victim of gravity ; The weather song
• Money rock: Dollars and sense ; Seven-fifty once a week ; Where the money goes ; Tax man Max ; Walkin' on Wall Street ; This for that ; Tyrannosaurus debt ; The check's in the mail
• Multiplication rock: My hero, zero ; Elementary, my dear ; Three is a magic number ; The four-legged zoo ; Ready or not, here I come ; I got six ; Lucky seven Sampson ; Figure eight ; Naughty number nine ; The good eleven ; Little twelve toes
• America rock: No more Kings ; Fireworks ; The shot heard 'round the world ; The Preamble ; Elbow room ; The great American melting pot ; Mother necessity ; Sufferin' till suffrage ; I'm just a bill ; Three-ring government ; I'm gonna send your vote to college.