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In this Really Wild Animals video, Spin, an animated globe voiced by Dudley Moore, leads viewers on an exploration of the varied continent of North America. Music videos such as the opening "I've Gotta Be Wild" are prevalent throughout and combine wonderful nature photography with themes like an animal's need to hunt and humans' effect on animals and their habitats. Spring's arrival inspires Spin to glance at the "meanest hombre of all," the ground squirrel. Chuckle as you will, then watch this clever critter outsmart a rattlesnake! Next is the first of several reoccurring "Meet the Beavers" segments and then a look at how woodpeckers and starlings survive the 105-degree temperatures of the Sonoran Desert. In a summer visit to the Okefenokee Swamp, Spin interviews a biologist who studies alligators by climbing right into the swamp! In stark contrast is the breathtaking footage of white wolf pups frolicking in the frozen tundra of Ellesmere Island. The onset of autumn finds polar bears making their annual visit to the East Coast town of Churchill. The townspeople's preparations are detailed, there's a music video featuring bears foraging in the dump, and we watch one photographer's daring attempts to get close-up shots of these amazing bears. As winter settles in, Spin focuses on a group of people helping an abandoned black bear cub find an adoptive mother. This fact-filled video features a combination of beautiful nature photography and appealing music videos that is sure to captivate your child. --Tami Horiuchi ... Read more

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A fascinating and delightful documentary, donned with state-of-the-art special effects and stunning graphics, Tree is both an entertaining and educational exposition on these silent sentinels that make this world livable for so many life forms including ourselves. With the lovely voice of Martin Sheen narrating, this documentary is split into several sections, starting with how trees are found in mythologies from all cultures, and then going on to describe the three main types of trees: conifers, palm and broadleaf. Sheen gives a brief definition of what defines a tree from the sequoia to a bonsai before describing where trees are found on the planet, and why they don't grow at high altitudes or in the icy wastes of the Arctic poles. Learn about the many different resources trees provide, from life-saving medicines to timber for housing. Then learn about the life cycle and physiology of the tree. Detailed examples, such as the African acacia, which only flowers for one day once a year (at tea time), are chock-full of information. Above all, from this video you will gain a huge appreciation and respect for these stoic yet vulnerable creatures. Based on the revolutionary Eyewitness book series, Eyewitness videos are wonderful guides to natural history. There's also a five-minute "Making of" trailer that reveals the wizardry of producing the Tree documentary. --Samantha Allen Storey ... Read more

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Excellent introduction to Japan!
Recently, I showed this video to my 6th grade world cultures students and they were really captivated by it. I wasn't sure how they would like it, but they loved seeing the crafts and various artists of Japan. The video is great, because it gives you short pictures of different important people and a real overview of all of Japan's amazing talent. My students particularly liked the fighting puppets.

It was a BIG hit. I would definitely recommend it. We are watching it again next year without a doubt.

This viedo is a beatifully filmed informative documentary.
I saw this beatifully filmed piece on PBS. It selects several artists, ranging from weavers to dancers to sword makers, who have been designated by the Japanese government as "Living Treasures." This documentary describes the artistic tradition each Treasure practices, showing the traditions of some of Japan's near-lost arts. The information presented includes how the art is practiced, the traditions behind it, and some minutes of comment or interview from the Treasurers themselves. I would recommend this video to anyone who is interested in arts, history and tradition, or Japanese culture. There is actually a lot of information and insipration in this program. This video has an overall quiet, peaceful and relaxed feel, gently walking us through the lives and traditions of the Treasurers. I think it would be a wonderful generation-bridge for parents and children to watch together. ... Read more

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Excellent Video for Self Improvement
I used this video some years ago and found it to be especially helpful. Like all self help material the receipent has to be ready and open toreceive guidance. I was. I also lent it to a buddy of mine, he quit hismonotonous job, started his own engineering company and now has a thrivingbusiness. I'd say that's evidence of it's utility.

Excellent Video for Self Improvement
I used this video some years ago and found it to be especially helpful. Like all self help material the receipent has to be ready and open toreceive guidance. I was. I also lent it to a buddy of mine, he quit hismonotnous job, started his own engineering company and now has a thrivingbusiness. I'd say that's evidence of it's utility.

Ten Steps to Improve Self Esteem
I use this video in my Interpersonal Communication classes at a community college.My students really like it.Canfield gives excellent information on self concept and what we can do to increase our own self esteem.Hisuse of statistics, research, stories, personal examples and specificexercises make the video something everyone can relate to.I think it canpositively change the way people think about themselves and how they relateto others.It's a video one would watch many times and share with otherimportant people in one's life. ... Read more

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Get both videos! The Standard Deviants will move you out of an economic knowledge recession and into an expansion as they teach you the complex world of Economics. Learn how the economy works on both the micro and macro levels. The Standard Deviants are the perfect economic advisors to get you back on track. ... Read more

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the best of today's comedy...
I had the best time ever watching this blisteringly funny video
It's arguably one of the funniest film ever made on microeconomics and macroeconomics.
Just one regret: I predicted what would happen in the end barely an hour into the movie.
Anyway you will undoubtedly have a great time watching it with a bunch of friends on a saturday evening...
I placed this VHS between "there's something about Mary" and "The Monty Pythons: the life of Brian" in my videotheque. ... Read more

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The people united will never be defeated!
¡Viva la Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History, a 2-part educational video in English, offers a compelling introduction to the history of Mexican American people. Based on the book 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures edited by Elizabeth Martínez. The video is suitable for youth in grades 5 - 12 and up, as well as community gatherings.

PART ONE of the video depicts Mexican Americans from their pre-Columbian origins through Spanish colonization, the U.S. take over of today's Southwest in 1848, the people's resistance, workers creating great wealth, and their massive strikes, up to World War II.

PART TWO includes the 1943 "Zoot Suit Riots," and early efforts to fight discrimination, the farmworkers' struggle, student protests, the Chicano Moratorium against the U.S. war in Vietnam, and new Chicano art. Today's Latino struggles bring the video up to date.

¡Viva la Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History is a unique, inspiring tool for everyone to learn about one of our oldest yet least known peoples.

Time Warp Correct Politics
This video takes the viewer back to the radical politics of the Sixties. It is utterly biased and unredeemed by any balanced viewpoint and I found it suitable mainly for college courses in political rhetoric, radical communications history, and radical sociology and anthropology. ... Read more

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From the giant polar bear to the Malaysian sun bear, from the teddy bear to A.A. Milne's "Bear of Very Little Brain," DK Vision covers all its bases in Eyewitness: Bear. Amazing images and insightful narration show these cousins of dogs in nature, in history, and in our mythology. Perhaps they play such a large role in our lives because they were such fierce competition for our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Omnivorous and playful, ferocious and adorable, they occupy many often-contradictory niches in our minds. DK Vision explores all these niches and gives us the lowdown on the eight species of bears that lumber across Asia and the Americas, delighting adults and children alike. Eyewitness: Bear is the perfect viewing for just before a long winter's hibernation! --Rob Lightner ... Read more

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Outstanding- a Must!
BEAR- by DK Eyewitness publishing is one of the best childrens bear videos that I have seen in a long time. It is accurate, factual, the quality of the production of the video is excellent and most important, it keeps the attention of the viewer. DK Eyewitness should be congratulated on this production. ... Read more

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The battle of the sexes was never this brutal. In National Geographic's Hidden World of the Bengal Tiger, you'll watch from atop an elephant's back as Lakshmi, a mother tiger, tends to her young in the face of the grave danger posed by her fiercest enemy: a male tiger.The forest is cool, green, and beautiful, and thanks to exceptional cinematography, the viewer seems to melt into the trees as Lakshmi hunts and fends off the stalker.The filmmakers' sympathy with their subjects is clear and inevitably the viewer is drawn into the drama of survival in the wild, even the grim beauty of the tiger's kills.Despite this sympathy, there is little temptation to humanize these animals--they aren't people but distant cousins at best, and their feelings and actions are profoundly distinct from our own.These differences give us much to learn from, and National Geographic presents unprecedented insight into the Hidden World of the Bengal Tiger.--Rob Lightner ... Read more

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Tourist video
I've been to Kanha, else this video wouldn't have particularly interested me: but as a souvenir, it's fine.

Could do with more of a "storyline" (e.g. Lions & Hyenas, Mortal enemies) but as a "general" film of tigers it's ok.

A near classic
This video is a perfect compliment to "Land of the Tiger", which due to a broader scope only touched on the fact that a mother tiger's greatest danger is a male tiger who is not her cubs' father.

We watch with forest rangers as Lakshmi raises her triplets to sub-adult. Then, ominously, the remains of the triplets' father are found - he had been patrolling territory overlapping Laksmi's and had been killed by another male.

Then, one shattering day, the rangers find Lakshmi wounded, presumably at the hands of the stranger male. As this was natural and not the work of man (i.e., poachers), they do not intervene. She then disappears, and tension rises as time goes by with no sign of her. Is Lakshmi alive? What of the cubs, the hotheaded boys and their more competent sister? I'm not telling - watch and find out! Another gem in NG's cap. ... Read more

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Survival of the fittest. Raw competition? Or, a level of cooperation indispensable to life? Evolution tells us that both are important. We explore our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms, the only entities that can pose a threat to our existence. We follow the struggles of medical detectives uncovering the roots of epidemics and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease, like the new virulent tuberculosis--nicknamed "Ebola with wings." Interactions between species are among the most powerful evolutionary forces on earth, and understanding them may be key to our own survival. ... Read more

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Great for Biology Classes!
By tracking TB and a few other examples this video shows the process of evolution as an interactive exchange between organisms as they change in relationship to each other. It is an excellent video - along with others I have seen in this series - for use in biology classes from high school through basic college courses. This one can be used in discussions on disease or evolution. Very interesting, fast paced and Great science! ... Read more

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Your child will be captivated as BOCA, the puppet instructor, teaches over 200 words and 80 phrases in Spanish and English with animals from around the world. The animals run, swing, play and dance their way through this delightful bilingual educational video from the BOCA BETH Program. A bonus feature of an interactive Spanish and English music class is included and conducted by BOCA BETH - the creator of this concept. Your child will love watching other children sing and dance to many bilingual songs - showing just how fun and easy learning a new language can be. ... Read more

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Closet spelunkers, don your helmet flashlights and rejoice! Mysteries Underground from National Geographic is your personal tour guide of the vast worlds that exist right under your feet. Venture across both time and space, from the failed 1925 attempt to rescue caving legend Floyd Collins from Kentucky's Sand Cave to a claustrophobic retelling of 1972's pioneering Flint Ridge-Mammoth Cave connection to the 1986 discovery of New Mexico's 60-mile-long, 1600-feet-deep Lechuguilla. Plummet far into the inky blackness that is the world of caving, where explorer's footprints endure as if they were made on the moon, and where the surroundings seem just as alien. Witness the treacherous beauty of underground ice formations. Learn about the intricate cave food chain based on nitrogen-rich bat guano. Spy ancient cave paintings, eyeless fish, and albino salamanders. It's a thrilling hour you won't forget. It's also bound to make wherever you live seem a lot larger and brighter than you previously thought. --Bob Michaels ... Read more

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The best caving video documentary ever! Needs DVD version!
By far the most outstanding caving documentary ever filmed.The photography is the best I've ever seen from any National Geo special.The pictures and colors of various caves and their formations are shot and seen in a spectacular beauty that has to be seen to be believed.The special explorations of Lechaguea Cave in New Mexico are outstanding. Te cave is not a show cave or a tourable cave for the general public. After witnessing the camera work and explorations into this unknown (less popular) cavern, I was estatic that one HUGE cavern system could have such beauty and abundance of formations. The depth in which the director/producers took into the extensiveness of filming and story telling of caves throughout the world is outstanding alone. From the beginning of caving to the research involed, and the history of caving, and to the amazing "connection" story of how Mammoth Cave became the world's lagest cavern system by cavers connecting (at the time) two seperate cave systems.This is by far the best of any National Geo sspecials ever produced and THIS MUST GET ON DVD!!!It must get om DVD just for the sheer beauty filmed in this documentary.This is a film that deserves the best attention to transfer to dvd if they ever do. In a High Definition quality or seen in Hi-Def would be ideal. Only then would this do the film makers justice.The video quality on VHS is fine yet it is still just seen on a VHS film element that desperatly needs to be digitally reproduced onto dvd.I am waiting patiently for National Geo to get this on DVD and do it right in all it's splendor.For now, the price on VHS is worth it just to see this outstanding (if not the very best ever) caving documentary.Imax films a few years back did a caving movie called "Journey To Amazing Caves" and it totally fails in comparrision to this outstanding film.Although Imax's "Journey Through Amazing Caves" was a horrible production (not really much to do about caves at all, very dissapointing), the picture quality put into the Imax DVD was done excellent. That is what National Geo needs to do with this 1992 documentary.Either way buy this just to see it. Especailly if your a caver or a fan of caving doucmentries where your looking for suspence excitment, and through information. This has more than you could ever want in a caving film. At an hour long it covers much ground on the subject. So good it left me wanting more. Don't miss it!! ... Read more

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Consider Amazing Endangered Animals a primer for junior environmentalists. There is much to nurture their thinking in this video, which breezily relates complicated concepts without putting young viewers on information overload. Enough animals speed across the screen to make any child wide-eyed, from pigs to leopards, elephants to whales, and dozens in between. One minute it's explaining how thousands of animals are endangered, and the next it's doing an engaging job demonstrating how the dwindling rain forests play a part in endangering animals. Specific instances of extinction are traced, such as the passenger pigeon's eradication in 1914, but some of its tales are more hopeful, including a Central American community that helped save a group of incredibly photogenic monkeys. It's a bit like National Geographic meets the Weekly Reader, and the adults won't mind listening in.--Valerie J. Nelson ... Read more

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Communication is crucial, but bewildering to 4-year-olds. Caillou's Reading Adventures explores how people communicate with the written word, body language, and sign language. In the first episode, Caillou and Daddy enjoy the Saturday paper together, then Caillou and Mommy head to the library for some new books and story time. Next, Caillou learns all about body language and sign language when he meets a deaf boy. Finally, Daddy, Caillou, and Rosie find the perfect present for Mommy--but can they keep it a secret? While Gilbert (the cat) hones his literary skills composing prosaic odes, Teddy (the bear) and Rexy (the dinosaur) tackle new words like "plethora" and "pulchritudinous." Finally, the power of body language becomes clear to the animal trio when Gilbert and Rexy discover that, at least when cheering up Teddy, actions mean more than words. Discover the joys of reading and communication with Caillou and his friends. (Ages 3 to 6) --Tami Horiuchi ... Read more

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Great start for English Sign Language
I think this video is so great. Anthony Natale is funny and I do not dread having to watch it again as I am learning. I am glad in the introduction it is explained Anthony Natale does not teach ASL but signs as he speaks. (Obviously this is confusing for some people). This is not the video to learn ASL but to learn enough vocabulary to be comfortable enough to sign to an ASL signer or any hearing impaired person who signs. It also gives some great insight into the deaf world and encourages everyone to not be afraid to try to meet or talk to a deaf individual. I highly recommend this video as a person embarks on learning to sign, whether it be ASL or English. English sign is growing in popularity because it is easier to learn. This teaches you enough sign to begin signing English Sign Language. If you are interested in learning ASL exclusively, this is not the video for you. They do not teach any ASL grammar. Signing along with English sentence structure is NOT ASL. Great source of vocabulary words for all signers and those interested in learning to sign.

Great for the beginner!
I have always wanted to learn the basics of sign language and after reading all the positive reviews for this particular video decided to give it a shot. I watched it with my 8 year old son and since then we have been practicing signing and having a great time in the process. I have to point out it is very helpful for anyone new to signing to have a video to learn from and not a book... many of the signs involve motion, which is difficult to depict in books without some confusion. We have been surprised at the ease with which we have picked up so many of the basic signs, and this video was well worth the cost. It is well put together, easy to understand, and excellent for a beginner with a little time on his/her hands, so to speak.

signing to get along
I got this dvd because I have always been interested in signlanguage and baby sign. This dvd really gives you a nice base for learning to sign or just to get by if you should happen to meet someone who is deaf. I used to work retail and it really came in handy being able to communicate with a deaf customer who stopped in. I also use it to teach my children. (It really came in handy, when I lost my voice due to a cold) You may want to skip some parts however depending on the age of the child. (like asking for a date, or one sign that done wrong means a totally different thing)I loved it because it shows real life situations instead of a classroom like setting like most videos. It is a great teaching tool, or just as a review, if you are out of practice. I really enjoyed this dvd expecially being able to go to any scene with the dvd version.

THIS WAS GREAT - AND HELPFULL! WHAT A BARGIN.
I bought this at first as a gift to my sister, but very fast
as i watched her watch it, i found out how interesting it is.
the tape shows you very clearly the bsaics of ASL, and as long as you have a little time to devote on watching it you will "Catch it" really fast.

When did i figure this tape is great:
i was at a McDonalds in manhatten (where i live) on 14th and 7th ave, and a person, who gave out cards claiming he can't hear and asks for money.
i asked him a simple question (how are you) by ASL, and he understood and replayed!

any way, if you are interested in ASL (American sign lang)
buy this - also makes a great great gift!

he "talks" too fast with his hands
he does phrases when I need basic nouns,verbs,connectives. single words,then expressions. why can't he walk along pointing out things,like in the film JOHNNY BELINDA? there're subtle nuances &facial expressions to signing that he doesn't address. it's hard a for a beginner to keep up,and I don't see any other videos that look easier,from their descriptions. so,having just lost my hearing suddenly,at age 39,I'm still lost,an island floating away from being able to "hear" people speak to me. ... Read more

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Infused with a healthy awe of nature's handiwork, this film is a crash course in physiology. In just 60 minutes the video travels through every inch of the human body, highlighting the various engineering feats accomplished in the course of everyday activity. Tiny cameras expose the forest of taste buds on the tip of a tongue, the cavernous pores in a fingertip, and the eerie clenching action of vocal chords. While the live-action scenes are a bit dated, the visual effects created by x-rays, microscopes, and time-lapse photography are fascinating. --Claire Campbell ... Read more

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Good video but very outdated
I remember liking this video as a child so I was anxious to see it again. It's funny how times change. The old Geographic with their big booming narrator voice and documentary scenes that look like they were staged for the camera just don't do it for me anymore. Some of the scenes are still touching but I would reccomend keeping your memories intact and avoid watching this. It's just not worth your time and any expense.

Not just a documentary, but a work of art
I'll start off by saying that the classic National Geographic documentaries played a vital part in my childhood. I rented them from the local video store so many times that the employees there called me "the National Geographic kid." CREATURES OF THE NAMIB DESERT, THE SHARKS, AFRICAN WILDLIFE--these were to me what SNOW WHITE and THE LITTLE MERMAID were to other kids. What can I say? I was (and still am) a total egghead. (I'll be 21 next month.)

However, I always had a unique relationship with THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN MACHINE. On the one hand, I knew that it was a masterpiece, and was continually compelled to watch it. And yet, something about it frightened me. Its images, like the inside of the esophagus and blood pumping through vessels, were somehow more than I could deal with. As a result, I only watched it a very few times.

Fortunately, I'm much less sensitive now (I've even become an avid fan of horror movies--a complete turnaround from my childhood), and I recently went back and saw THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN MACHINE. And, while it no longer scares me, there is something unnerving about it. In some ways, it's similar to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (maybe its flip side, since this is an odyssey through INNER space). There's an awe, a scientific/poetic ecstasy to everything. Maybe it's the uneasy feeling that our boundaries as animals have been broken, that we're seeing things that had previously been reserved for the gods.

But why is that? I've seen many other, more technologically advanced (remember, this film is 25 years old) documentaries on the human body, but none moves me like this one. There are several reasons. It's written, directed, and edited with seamless perfection (kudos to Irwin Rosten and Hyman Kaufman) and makes the most of its short running time. At fifty-odd minutes, there's only time to give a thumbnail sketch of each of the bodily systems, and the film does so in a marvelously succinct and resourceful way. But that's only part of it. Far more than just filling us up with facts like most documentaries do, it ventures into the realms of art and philosophy without ever overplaying its hand. It takes the time to present small, incredible images like individual heart cells beating in a petri dish, or an embryo's spine forming, or a zygote expanding and contracting. (Narrator E.G. Marshall compares this last one to an "exploding star," effortlessly linking inner and outer space.) It quotes Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and Joseph Conrad, while celebrating our bodies through images of world-class athletes and ordinary people. A gymnast performs on uneven parallel bars, a deaf woman hears for the first time, a man in a biofeedback experiment powers a toy train with his mind. Ultimately, the film makes you think about who we are, and marvel that we exist and are capable of so much.

(I was unable to fit this into the last paragraph, but I simply have to give special credit to Billy Goldenberg, whose eerie, pulsating music plays almost continuously through the film and greatly intensifies its emotional impact.)

I could go on about this film for much longer, but I've made my point. So I'll finish on a personal note of triumph. THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN MACHINE has been here all these years; it just took me a while to be able to fully enjoy it. And now I can, and I will for the rest of my life. I hope you buy it and get out of it all that I have.

PS: I wish that National Geographic would issue some of their pre-1975 documentaries on video. Also, with videotape rapidly becoming an outdated medium, they need to reissue their entire catalog (including the pre-1975 stuff just mentioned) on DVD, so the next generation can enjoy these classics. ... Read more

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"Sign With Me" is a must for every parent of an infant or toddler.This developmental video will help you and your child communicate even before your child can talk.

Why wait until your child can speak when you can communicate through nonverbal gestures, or signs?Research shows signing enables a child to be an active communicator at a much earlier age.By teaching your child sign language as well as spoken words, they are able to understand and communicate with the world around them more quickly.While watching this fun, interactive video, your child will explore the world of sign language; learning how to sign simple words from another child.As he or she discovers signing, pupets and other playful children will also delight them.A parental guide follows for parents to learn and teach a child how to sign basic words such as "more," "help me'" and "finished."Start communicating with your child early on with the help of this video.Signing with your infant is an opportunity to strengthen the parent-child bond. ... Read more

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You Can Do Better.
This video is disappointing. Offering only 10 signs, an
adorable girl of about 3 or 4 signs each of (only) 10 signs. After she quickly and imprecisely shows the sign several times, a puppet takes over and performs a slow, little skit that demonstrates the object of the sign in some way. He puts a ball through a hoop for the word "ball," for instance. The actions of the puppet do not reinforce the sign, which isn't repeated, and only distracts the viewer from the sign the action illustrates. In one case of extreme sign confusion, an adult giving a baby a bottle of juice to demonstrate "milk!"

This video borrows heavily from the Baby Einstein videos, which are designed to introduce children to art and music. If you're looking for a video for your toddler, I'd suggest sticking with the original Baby Einstein. If you want to learn sign language with your child, get Baby See 'n Sign.

I'd give it a lower rating if I could
A waste of money...puppets are cute for kids, but they don't sign very well...I could hardly make out the signs I was supposed to be learning. Children signing is great for kids to relate to, but it was really hard to figure out what the proper sign was supposed to be. I don't think my child learned anything from watching it. I wouldn't recommend this video to anyone unless of course you've got money to burn in which case I'll send you my copy for free.

Not recommended
OK, well my child LOVED this video, but it was not very good as far as teaching signs. It doesn't really connect the sign to the action, and the words they teach are not very helpful or useful.

Entertains but does not do much for teaching signs!
I was VERY disappointed! This viedo shows poor versions of only a FEW signs, and while they SHOW and SAY the word, they only sign it once or twice, and poorly done. They verbally repeat the word many times, but fail to SHOW the sign as often! They waste a LOT of time showing kids (the producer's ?)doing things, with nothing but music with it.
I would much prefer to reccomend "Talking Hands" or Joseph Garcia's kit "Sign with your Baby", or "Sign Me a Story", or even "Baby See and Sign" (not the best, though).
While my 22 mo. daughter loved it, it was NOT doing much to teach her to SIGN, which is why I bought it. Save your money!

not the best choice
This video has only a few signs imperfectly signed by a toddler. The visuals do not clearly illustrate the sign which is only given twice. Better videos for the buck are _Talking Hands_ and _See n Sign_. Both have more signs clearly and better illustrated. ... Read more

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Color is an essential characteristic of the amazing world that surrounds children. BABY VAN GOGH(TM) is an enriching new approach to learning colors through the context of paintings by Van Gogh. This video follows the antics of Vincent Van Goat, the art-loving puppet, as he creates six masterpieces, each dedicated to a particular color. During Vincent's creative process you and your child can explore the way colors make us feel, see the presence of colors in familiar objects, and discover that paintings are combinations of many colors. This child-friendly excursion into the world of color is accented in classical music of the period by Bizet, Mussorgsky, Offenbach, Rossini, Satie, Strauss and Tchaikovsky. ... Read more

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Excellent
When I received 'Baby Einstein' at our baby shower, I had never heard of this before and was kind of skeptical about introducing my child to TV in infancy. Now, almost 9 months later, I'm happy to say that we are all big fans. And these products are appearing more and more on baby registries for almost all of our friends who are expecting.

We own several of the videos in the series, and Baby Van Gogh is probably the reigning champ (followed closely by Baby Mozart and the original, Baby Einstein). The use of color and art are really wonderful ways to delight and entertain a child, and my husband and I find ourselves a bit mesmerized as well. My daughter also loves seeing the other kids in the video and giggles pretty regularly at the same faces and smiles.

The creation of these videos, DVDs, CDs and books was a stroke of genius...Baby Einstein is truly an appropriate name.

TV for baby? Well...maybe a little!
I have strong feelings about letting my child watch television. I firmly believe that children should spend their time outside playing or using their imaginations and not sitting watching TV for hours on end. However, I find that I don't mind the Baby Einstein videos...in fact I really enjoy watching them as it provides some quality time. Yes I did say quality time in reference to watching a video. Once a day I sit down with my son and we watch a part of a video together. I point to the objects on the screen and name them for him. He divides his time between the screen and interacting with me. At 7 months old he is absolutely fascinated by seeing all the children in the videos. He is also very fond of the puppets. The Van Gogh video is fun in the way it introduces colors. The music is pleasant and soothing. Vincent Van Goat (the puppet host) adds a lively touch...especially with the subtle bandage on his ear on the title screen of the video.

FANTASTIC!
We own all the Baby Einstein videos and this is my son's favorite. He's been watching it since he was four months old, and it captivates him like no other in the series. I agree with the other reviews that this one is well structured, presenting colors in a logical and meaningful sequence while making it fun for baby at the same time. A close second would be Baby Neptune, but if you are considering buying any of the Baby Einsteins, this would be my first choice.

Excellent
Baby Van Gogh is so much better than the first Baby Eistein Videos - Baby Einstein, Baby Mozart and Baby Bach. This video has puppets that my children absolutely love, great classical music, a theme (learning colors) and structure. We also have Baby Doolittle: Neighborhood Animals, whcih is also great, and Baby Newton, which is not quite as good but still worth having. My kids are now two and four and they still watch this once in a while and enjoy it.

A Favorite of Mine, but not the baby...
We are a Baby Einstein family, we have several of the DVDs, and as well as Toys, books etc. This is MY favorite DVD in the bunch. The music in this one is fun, and the puppet clips are actually humorous to an adult. The live action sequence are wonderful too, especially the introduction one with toys, animals and other things of every color. (And the annoying kids are kept to a minimum in this one, no corny jokes)

That being said...

This one won't hold my daughter's attention as well as some of the others. She'll watch a bit, and then it's off to explore the house! So this is one we'll put on in the background when we are playing other games, simply for the great music. I dig deeper in to the baby einstein series when I want one to have her watch while I prepare her lunch, or grab some laundry. For older babies, I recommend "Baby Neptune" or "Neighborhood Animals", which are her current favorites. For younger babies, the composer DVD's are like a magic on fussy babies, baby Mozart was an early favorite. ... Read more