Aesop's Fables. Group III., 1974

Item — Box: CFC Cassettes Box 1

Identifier: CFC2024.0055.3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1974

Extent

.5 Linear Feet : Six captioned filmstrips with six cassettes. Distributed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation. Pomfret Center, CT: Pomfret House.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

TB: 5:37. 30 illustrations. (Careful: the spool may catch before the tape is fully rewound.) The bear sees both talking; does that not preclude playing dead? The two are introduced as friends, but the author comments at the end that the climber had not been a real friend to the other.

"The Man, His Son, and the Donkey": 5:25. 30 illustrations. People along the way are angry. The man also gets angry along the way. The donkey unties the rope with his teeth. "Never try to please everyone."

AD: 5:45. 30 illustrations. This ant got tired from exploring. A wave got him out into the water as he was drinking. The dove supplied a branch. The hunter set a trap for the dove. The dove did not know that the ant saved her.

"The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing": 5:30. 30 illustrations. For a moment, the disguised wolf sees a "sheep" in the river water that he himself is drinking. The sheep, sheepdog, and shepherd are all fooled. A lamb thinks that the wolf is his mother; the wolf leads him away and eats him.

"The Hares and the Frogs": 5:05. 27 illustrations. A herd of wild horses disturbs the hares' last desperate attempt at a safe home. "Let's get as far away from here as we can." They seek a new home. This fable is especially padded. "There are problems wherever anyone lives."

FWT: 5:20. 25 illustrations. The fox begins his speech to the other foxes by saying "As you can see, I lost my tail in a trap." "Misery loves company."