The Storybook Review

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A compilation of 4 Mother Goose stories "photographed in three dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose herself magically setting up a projector to ... Read allA compilation of 4 Mother Goose stories "photographed in three dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose herself magically setting up a projector to show the films. The familiar stories are "Little Miss Muffett," "Old Mother Hubbard," "The... Read allA compilation of 4 Mother Goose stories "photographed in three dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose herself magically setting up a projector to show the films. The familiar stories are "Little Miss Muffett," "Old Mother Hubbard," "The Queen of Hearts" and "Humpty Dumpty."

Director
- Ray Harryhausen

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6.3/10

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Director
- Ray Harryhausen

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Trivia
This film is being preserved by The Academy Film Archive.

Crazy credits
Mother Goose presents The Storybook Review

Connections
Featured in The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998)

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5/10

Stop Motion History

This short subject -- about one reel -- is more interesting as an historical artifact than as a work of art: it was Harryhausen's first independent production after working for George Pal. Essentially a silent with a synchronized sound score, it covers four Mother Goose rhymes animating the supertitled words that appear one at a time like a teletype.

Although the animation is not as elaborate and convincing as it would become by the 1960s, underneath the overly bright colors and banal images, you can still see Harryhausen's sense of humor, particularly in the credits. Even so, it's not particularly fascinating. For Harryhausen fans only.