Kid's short films

A few funny short  movies I remember seeing on tv as a kid were very memorable, but I'm not sure what the name of the movies are.

1. Channel 21 used to air short movies featuring a guy that always got into accidents like being high on a tree, and upon chopping it down, he fell down.

2. A Boy, His Dog and a frog. This is what being a boy is about. going out with your dog and looking for a frog down by the creek. It's a very funny movie as the boy got muddy and dirty during his attempts to catch the frog. The funny part was seeing him trying to catch the frog, as he leaped away. Seeing frogs hop like that is hilarious. And just when he gave up and went home to take a bath, the frog followed him home and went upstairs to see him. Ribbit.

3. The Lollypop dragon- various film strip stories seen in school, with a tape recorder playing a pre-recorded track for the stories. When I saw the image of the Lollypop dragon during my nostalgic search, the green dragon somehow reminded me of Zak from Dragontales.

4. ZAP! a kids movie seen in school of a kid who gets magical powers by mixing various ingredients together and then reaches his hands out and shouts "Zap!" whenever he wanted to change something.

5. Channel 21 used to air various education short movies, one such I remember was Inside Out.

6. I remember an animated short film, where an young alien creature lands on Earth, and is lost. A little girl is playing and notices the alien and helps him out and shows him around. Later, you hear, her mom call her "Maria." the little girl explains to the alien child that it's her mamma calling, and suddenly hundreds of language translations of Mama was shown on the screen and as the alien cries out for his mama, his mom comes and  picks him up.

7. An animated poem about the colors, as a woman narrates it and asks what is black, white, red, etc, and tells a poem of what  those colors mean to her.

Old Tv Kid's commercials

Believe it or not, I remember alot of the old tv commercials and announcements to kids back in the 1970's. Back in school I saw the fun live action puppet film featurin Mark Ritt's puppets "For the love of Fred." The  puppets were so memorable that they appeared in a variety of commercials from the Junior Consumer Tip of your better business bureau. They taught the importance of saving money, eating right, saving energy. I only wished that I could see that movie again. Channel 11 used to air these animated movie shorts "The Most important person." Like episodes that taught about being lonely, making mistakes, feelings. One other funny commercial featured puppet pills that came out of a pill jar and sung a song about the dangers of taking pills as they're not candy.  Back then Saturday Mornings were worth the wait as the're are tons of cool shows to watch.

nostalgic products

I get nostalgic for tons of things, as they all somehow left my life, and I can't say goodbye to them. Mostly they were products once sold at the supermarket, and such and as time goes by, the products are no longer sold. So sometimes when I watch a movie on tv made in the 1980's or 1970's, they sometimes will show a scene in a grocery store. Sometimes you might get lucky and see a scene of breakfast cereals on display, and you remember them fondly and wished that you can get it again. I saw a movie on tv "Oh God! You Devil." A scene or two at a grocery store brings back memories of the Tic Tac display at the register, as well as a few boxes of cereal.
     Talk about getting nostalgic over breakfast cereals, I saw this live action short movie on a tv show called Callioupe. I don't know what the name of it was, but it's about a little boy in a supermarket who has a big imagination and imagines things happening to the people who work  there. During a scene of him going down the breakfast isles, and seeing all those nostalgic breakfast cereals as they were made back then, the boy sees a guy with acne on his face as he places the price stickers on the product. The boy wonders how that man got those bumps. He invisions that maybe he went up a tree to a beehive to get fresh honey to sell in the store and he got stung.
One of the breakfast cereals the little boy picked off the shelf was "Dringles" freaturing Dr. Dringles. The little boy looked at the box and thought of the animated commercial advertising the product.
      Oh here's another one, "Three Men and a Baby" One of the men goes to get diapers for the baby, and all the diapers there are plastic backed. Talk about nostalgia, but the movie was made in the late 1980's. Sometimes a scene in the movie might take place at a video arcade and you see the classic arcade games all lined up and lit up in all it's glory playing it's music and sounds. Makes you wish you could go there and play those games. Another movie Poltergeist has a scene in the kids bedroom where the original Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot character is scene on his bed sheets, pillow cases. And even in the movie E.T., one of the older kids in the family is wearing a Space Invaders T-shirt. I had one of those, but I always got sunburned as the t-shirt was black, and darket colors absorb heat.