Aesop's Fables. Group IV., 1977

Item — Box: CFC Cassettes Box 1

Identifier: CFC2024.0055.4

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

1977

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

With the change in date, the format of these last six filmstrips changes slightly. No longer are the strips paginated. Each strip credits both script and art. Don Roberts does all the scripting. Rex Duden is responsible for the art of the first strip, while Gloriana (or "G." or "Glory") Gill does the rest. The art becomes slightly more sophisticated in this series.

WC: 4:48. The wolf has a good choking voice. Others try to help; the beaver thumps the wolf's back and the back of his head. The crow recommends Dr. Crane. The wolf promises "I'll pay you any amount of money you'll ask."

"The Honest Woodman": 5:26. Three different spirits accost the man here. The first forbids him to touch a particular tree and complains of the damage he has already done. Next the spirit queen throws his axe into the lake. A third comes up three times from the lake. "Honesty is always the best policy."

"The Owl and the Grasshopper": 4:25. The male grasshopper tells the female owl "You should be out hunting for food, like everyone else." The owl flatters the grasshopper on his voice and says at the end "Talking to him just didn't do any good."

"The Farmer and the Barrel" : 6:25. New to me. Anything in the barrel multiplies. The farmer, wife, and grandfather get rich and greedy. After grandfather falls into the barrel and starts multiplying, the barrel breaks and they are returned to their original poor state. "Money just made us selfish and greedy. We should be thankful for each other."

DM: 4:26. Long on the oxen's hard work and the dog's laziness. "A person who keeps things he doesn't need just so others can't have them is called a `dog in the manger.'"

"The Ant and the Butterfly": 3:13. New to me. The ant finds a dull brown thing (a chrysalis). When it starts moving, the ant says that whatever is inside must be stupid and ugly. The butterfly later recalls the ant's words when the ant praises the butterfly's beauty. "Never judge a book by its cover."