Release date: 2003-08-11
RRP: £12.99
Price: £25.98
Review Baby Beethoven - Symphony of Fun / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:Classical music has been scientifically proven to encourage cognitive development in young children. Baby Beethoven, a 29-minute Baby Einstein production, presents excerpts from five of the composer's most famous symphonies-as well as incidental music-in a child-friendly, sensory-rich format. Familiar Beethoven themes like the "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony are playfully rendered on electric piano and accompanied by colorful images of toys in action, puppetry, and babies at play. The musical excerpts are relatively short and the imagery is quick-paced and varied enough to grab the limited attention span of viewers age 1 to 36 months. Unlike previous Baby Einstein presentations, each symphonic excerpt (though not the incidental music) is labelled-a feature that encourages further exploration of favorite pieces. Baby Beethoven is an aural and visual feast that promotes creativity, mental awareness and an appreciation for classical music in infants, toddlers, and their parents. -Tami Horiuchi.
Actors & Directors
- Clare Byam-Cook
- Steve Gammond
Run time: 140 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £21.00
Review Breastfeeding Without Tears With Clare Byam-Cook / Green Umbrella Productions:
Release date: 1999-01-04
Run time: 50 min.
Price: £14.99
Review A Practical Guide To Childbirth Massage Techniques / Talking Pictures:
Release date: 1998-03-23
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £14.99
Review Understanding Children / Quantum Leap:
Release date: 2003-04-28
RRP: £12.99
Price: £17.90
Review Baby Van Gogh - World of Colours / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:Baby Van Gogh is from the award-winning infant-developmental media company Baby Einstein, whose goal and philosophy is the satisfaction of a child's curiosity through sight and sound. In the main Theatre section of this disc you'll find lots of simple shapes, primary colours and favourite toys passing across the screen. Unlike the simpler earlier releases, this is focused on the works of Vincent Van Gogh, who is here represented by a blue sock puppet! To begin with the video seems like something of a nature documentary with flowers in bloom and animals on the move, before we're taken through the colours of the rainbow with sections devoted to the individual colours. For example in Yellow, there are toy chicks, sunflowers, lemons and children playing in yellow paper shavings. All the while, The Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra play us music from Van Gogh's era such as The Blue Danube Waltz, The William Tell Overture, Swan Lake and Flight of the Bumble Bee. This is a slight advancement in expectation of your child from the more basic initial releases but has a Video Tutorial to help the parent understand how it all works. On the DVD: Baby Van Gogh is the name of the feature itself, but from the Main Menu you can enter a Concert Hall to replay the musical cues from the main show. There's also an Art Exhibit of each of the featured Van Gogh paintings, a Resources section with the aforementioned Video Tutorial and a Toy Chest crediting all the toys used, just in case a certain someone wants one of their own. -Paul Tonks.
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Release date: 1997-02-10
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.45
Review Baby It's You [1994] / Beckmann Visual Publishing:
Release date: 2003-12-15
RRP: £10.99
Price: £14.99
Review Lynne Robinson's Pilates For Pregnancy / Firefly Entertainment:
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Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.99
Review Breast Feeding - If You Want To, You Can [1988] / B-Line Productions:
Release date: 1995-03-20
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £10.99
Review Bringing Up Baby / ITV DVD:
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Run time: 170 min.
Price: £14.99
Review Nanny Knows Best - How To Bring Up A Happy Child [1980] / Metrodome Distribution:
Release date: 2001-11-08
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.99
Review Sing and Sign (Baby Signing the Fun Way) / Sing and Sign:
Release date: 1995-02-20
Run time: 32 min.
Price: £7.99
Review Waterbabies / Metrodome Distribution:
Release date: 2003-04-28
Price: £12.99
Review Baby Mozart - Music Festival / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:Baby Mozart is from the award-winning infant-developmental media company Baby Einstein, whose goal and philosophy is the satisfaction of a child's curiosity through sight and sound. In the main Theatre section of this disc you'll find lots of simple shapes, primary colours and favourite toys passing across the screen. Unlike the simpler earlier releases, this is focused on the works of Mozart, and so just like the Bach and Beethoven releases all the images are choreographed around the chosen pieces of music. This release was named Video of the Year by Child and Parent magazine and is a wonderful expansion of the company's original ideas. It's a slight advancement in expectation of your child from the more basic initial releases but has a Video Tutorial to help the parent understand how it all works. On the DVD: Baby Mozart is the name of the feature itself, but from the Main Menu you can enter a Concert Hall to replay the musical cues from the main show. Split into three sections (Little Ears, Playtime or Bedtime) you can mix and match from the main feature playlist (for example: Magic Flute, Concerto for Flute and Harp in C and movements from Piano Sonatas in C and D). There's also a Resources section with the aforementioned Video Tutorial and a Toy Chest crediting all the toys used, just in case a certain someone wants one of their own. -Paul Tonks.
Actors & Directors
- Mark Porter
- Stephanie Hendriks
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.49
Review Baby Matters - 1 - The Miracle Of Birth / Ironhill Pictures:
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Release date: 2000-10-16
Run time: 27 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.98
Review Baby Mozart [US version] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:It's called "the Mozart Effect", the notion that exposing youngsters to the melodies of the maestro can improve verbal ability, spatial intelligence, creativity and memory. It's a pretty big leap of faith to understand that effect unless you personally see a toddler react to the stimulation. The Baby Einstein folks have a series of tapes (Baby Einstein is also available) that add visual stimulation to the bouncy recordings (using vibraphone, Rhodes electric piano and even a glockenspiel). The melodies are heard against colourful imagery of spinning tops, wave machines, soft baby toys, mobiles and the like. Several parenting groups and magazines have heralded the tapes for children of one to 36 months old, but the Orwellian aspect of introducing babes in arms to the TV screen may cause many to resort to Mozart's music. -Doug Thomas.
Actors & Directors
- Mark Porter
- Penelope Leach
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.95
Review Baby Matters - 3 - Parent Craft / Ironhill Pictures:
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 32 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Baby Bach / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:Designed for infants and toddlers (one to 36 months), Baby Bach is a nicely produced video that features familiar toys and colourful objects, moving to the complex beautiful music of Johann Sebastian Bach. According to the video producers, "Bach's music has shown to enhance creativity, improve academic achievement, reduce anxiety and heighten mental awareness". Any parent will embrace this theory. Not only did this video completely captivate a 22-month-old for its entire 30-minute run-time but it's easy on the parents, too. The images are lively, clean and sharp and producers The Baby Einstein Company have a firm handle on what interests babies and toddlers. The extraneous segments with two pretty little blonde girls is silly but forgivable. Given that most children elect to watch a video repeatedly, this is one that parents won't mind in the slightest. The music, available on CD, is simply lovely. -N F Mendoza.
Actors & Directors
- Stephanie Hendriks
- Mark Porter
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.95
Review Baby Matters - 2 - A New Life / Ironhill Pictures:
Release date: 2002-03-18
Price: £2.99
Review Babies At Play / Ilc Entertainment:
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 27 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.98
Review Baby Shakespeare (Baby Einstein Learning Laboratory) / Walt Disney Home Video:The fourth "video board book" from the Baby Einstein people is their most engaging product yet. Aimed at slightly older audiences (ages 1 to 4), Baby Shakespeare combines poetry with the usual mix of festive classical music, bright objects and happy thoughts designed to stimulate young minds. This video is aimed at exposing little tykes to the language context. Twelve words (grass, tree, etc. ) are explored in pictures and poem form with plenty of playful stops for children singing their ABCs and close-ups of brightly coloured toys in action. We even meet Baby Einstein's first host: a dragon puppet named Bard, who (along with his friends) playfully participates in the action. He deserves a repeat performance. -Doug Thomas.
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