10-Movie Children's Holiday Collection (The Little Prince / The Velveteen Rabbit / The Star Child / God's Trombones / The Chimes / Michael The Visitor / The First Christmas / A Christmas Gift / Rip Van Wrinkle / Martin the Cobbler)

I have been looking for the Claymation version of "The Chimes" for a long time, and to my delight here it is with a large selection of other great Claymation films. There are so many great films in this set - Tolstoy's "Martin the Cobbler" is a must-see. The only drawback is the inclusion of "The Little Prince". I have always found that story and all adaptions of it to be frighteningly inappropriate, especially for children. Who in their right mind would have written a story about a little boy who commits suicide, and further adding the moral to the story: the little boy was right kill himself because he got to where he wanted to go??

In this day of CG I adore this disk for not being CG. There are many different stories and I have not watched them all, but the claymation is great. I had my twin nephew and neice over and showed this to them. They were in awe. I actually had to explain how this was done and point out how amazing the technique was and they were very impressed! Takes a lot to impress now days but they kept saying "and they moved it over and over??". For that I give this compilation an A+.

Purchased this collection of Children's stories after watching one at Christmastime. They are wonderfully done, certainly not up to high tech standards of current offerings on Dvd, but they are enjoyable, and personally, I actually preferred that they were done using Claymation. They have a innocent appeal to them, and even my 20 year old son really had a great time watching them. Some of the stories were adapted from Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian Novelist , and they really do make an impact when you are teaching your children some important life lessons. My sister in law , who was visiting one night, actually asked to borrow my copy, but I purchased her one on Amazon, my fave place to shop, online, of course !!!

Great Vintage Animation! I Enjoy All Of These Selections!

Hard to find animation like this until Amazon, we are collecting them all, great find. I get one or two every Christmas. Big thanks!

Lots of manual work, done with lots of love in precious stories!

Ten delightful claymation stories!

Got this for my littles for a holiday gift. All got different ones that fit their movie tastes and all were happy!

These stories are a little dark and bizarre. Martin the Cobbler is awesome, though (probably worth the price of the DVD itself).