Hiya Kids! A 50's Saturday Morning Box
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Actor: Hiya KidsBrand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 570 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Shout! Factory
Movie Reviews of Hiya Kids! A 50's Saturday Morning Box
Movie Review: It isn't quite like you remember...
Summary: 2 Stars
We live in an age where everything is new, new, new, fast, fast, fast...faster, and we forget what it was really like when we were (well me, anyway) younger. I was a child when these programs were originally on. I watched them then and couldn't wait to see them on these DVDs. TEDIOUS doesn't even begin to cover it. The program of Miss Frances of Ding Dong School shows l-o-n-g minutes (!!!) of closeups of her blowing bubbles from a clay pipe. That's it...minutes watching her slowly blow bubbles, and we're not talking big bubbles, fun bubbles or anything with some variety...just ordinary soap bubbles. It seems like it goes on forever.
Kukla, Fran and Ollie begins with Kukla attempting to turn the pages of a Life Magazine without much success, mind you as he is a very primitive puppet without working fingers. This goes on for long minutes while I waited for something else to happen...finally he gets into a long conversation with Ollie about if it's his magazine or Ollie's. It get's worse after that. I didn't like Kukla, Fran and Ollie when I was a child, probably because the program (as I see it now) was full of adult themes and ideas. Discussing the merits of classifying people by their likes and dislikes: art, music, literature. If someone was hi-brow or low-brow. Other puppets were questioned about their preferences, and one rather stupid looking one mentioned that he liked Alexander Calder's mobiles...which obviously was not meant for a 5 year old's understanding.
The point is, I'm not sure if that these programs have lost something in the 50-odd years since they've been on the air... or we, as a product of the move, move, move, fast, fast, fast era since Sesame Street started the "commercial like" TV programming we have become used to...are just too sophisticated to enjoy them anymore.
Summary of Hiya Kids! A 50's Saturday Morning Box
Some dreamed of a chance to be in the Peanut Gallery of Howdy Doody. Some begged their parents for a dog just like Lassie. Many wore cowboy hats to watch The Roy Rogers Show. In the 1950s, television was new and thrilling. Looking back, these shows had a significant impact on the children of the first television generation and helped to shape the medium as it increasingly became a part of our culture. Hiya Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning is a collection of the best kids' shows from the infancy of the genre. 4-DVD Box Set including 21 classic shows: Kukla, Fran And Ollie, Howdy Doody, Flash Gordon, Lassie, Annie Oakley, Ding Dong School, Time For Beany, The Paul Winchell Show, The Roy Rogers Show, Captain Z-RO, The Rootie Kazootie Club, Winky Dink And You, Super Circus, Andy s Gang, The Cisco Kid, Sky King, The Magic Clown, Kids And Company, Juvenile Jury, The Pinky Lee Show & Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle.Television DVD Video
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