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Camberwick Green - Stories From Camberwick Green [1966]
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The series itself is just excellent. My kids just love it. Even my older kids who wouldn't give Bob The Builder, Fireman Sam, Postman Pat and Tellietubbies the time of day, seem to find Camberwick Green entertaining. Perhaps its the great catchy songs or perhaps the clear pronounciation of the narrator, or then again, perhaps the quality of the stories. For me, its the fact that the series shows an English village where everyone is usefull and has a role to play. I think it builds self confidence and respect for others. Now to the reason I knocked this DVD down a star. The first episode, about the Postman, is simply unwatchable. The screen expands and contracts like Camberwick Green is in the midst of an earthquake. It makes you quite sick when you try and watch it. Some of the other episodes are full of scratches and pops. Surely, the producers could have spent a few days running the prints through a digital processor to clean up the film.
RRP: £5.99
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Editorial
Special Features
DVD 9
English
Region 0
Editorial
Synopsis
Adventures in Camberwick Green. Features twelve episodes.
Contents excellent, quality of DVD is appalling
Review date: 2005-02-02 Rating: 8 out of 10
I so much wanted to give this DVD 5 stars but because of the appalling quality of the film print I just cannot.
Reviews
Toddlers adore it
Review date: 2002-10-11 Rating: 8 out of 10
Just bought a dvd player and struggling to find any DVDs for my two and a half year old I came across this old childhood favourite, and decided it was just what we needed. So the quality's not up to modern standards, but who cares, the stories are still great and my daughter loves it. She'd watch it all the time if I let her and already knows all the characters names. She's a big fan of Windy Miller.
If you want a collection of gentle stories for a young toddler, no violence, no swearing, just good old fasioned values of helping one another and learning a few things along the way,then look no further. You'll be humming the theme tune before you can say Camberwick Green
A lovely trip down memory lane
Review date: 2002-07-02 Rating: 6 out of 10
I love this DVD, so why the 3 stars?
Pure and simple - the transfer is dreadful. Someone could have spent a few bob on cleaning up the picture and doing a decent transfer to DVD - I would have paid an extra couple of quid for that.
This brings back so many childhood memories and I have forced my Canadian wife to watch them, hopefully so she can understand why on earth I collect those funny little Camberwick Green figurines!
Love it, love it! Hopefully someday I can show these to MY children and they will love it too.
A welcome return to childhood and tranquillity
Review date: 2002-03-30 Rating: 8 out of 10
I must have been seven, and my brother five, when CAMBERWICK GREEN was first screened. We watched every episode, and the repeats, never really outgrowing them.
Thirty-six years on, how does they look? The first thing that struck me was how poor the quality of the DVD transfer is. There are many, many scratches on the film, and the picture is very shaky -- as if the DVD transfer has been done via a camera mounted on someone's shoulder. The sound is not good either, but then it always seemed as if Brian Cant recorded the narration and singing inside a small box at the BBC. (The box turned out to be a cupboard at the house of Freddie Phillips, who supplied the music.)
CAMBERWICK GREEN was the first major animated series from the Gordon Murray team, and it shows. The story lines, as you would expect of a series intended for infants, are very slight. Nothing too serious happens to any of the characters. Camberwick Green was a very quiet place, because most of the puppets lacked a mouth. There is no sense of a universe outside: in the first episode on the DVD, the postman delivers letters to characters from other characters living in Camberwick Green.
Of course, one's strongest memories of the series are of the repeated elements, which were the intro, the outro, and the wonderful musical score. It's all gloriously relaxing New Age stuff, building an audience who would grow into Windham Hill CDs twenty years later.
I would have bought this at any price, but I'm disappointed that the DVD production team couldn't find a better source tape to make the master from. What I don't know is whether the 12 episodes on this DVD make up the entire CAMBERWICK GREEN collection.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Brian Cant
Creators:
Brian Cant (Primary Contributor)
Recording label: Firefly Entertainment
Manufacturer: Firefly Entertainment
EAN: 5014469990258
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2004-06-14
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Universal, suitable for all
Running time: 174 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1966-01-03
Language: English (Original Language)