Golden Book Video was a line of children’s animated videos marketed by Western Publishing

Western Publishing

Western Publishing, also known as Western Printing and Lithographing Company was a Racine, Wisconsin firm responsible for publishing the Little Golden Books. Western Publishing also produced children's books and family-related entertainment products as Golden Books Family Entertainment...

, beginning in 1985. They featured characters and stories from Western's print publications, such as Little Golden Books

Little Golden Books

Little Golden Books is a popular series of children's books. The first 12 titles were published on October 1, 1942:#Three Little Kittens#Bedtime Stories#Mother Goose#Prayers for Children#The Little Red Hen#Nursery Songs...

, and were originally released on VHS

VHS

The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....

 video cassette for under $10.

The videos made use of limited animation

Limited animation

Limited animation is a process of making animated cartoons that does not redraw entire frames but variably reuses common parts between frames. One of its major trademarks is the stylized design in all forms and shapes, which in the early days was referred to as modern design...

 techniques to add motion to original illustrations from Western's print books; Western called this approach "bringing storybooks to life". As production was carried-out by multiple companies (Animagination Inc. ,David Kallaher Inc., among others), contents of the videos varies. Typically, they featured a full voice cast, with background music sourced from production music

Production music

Production music is the name given to recorded music produced and owned by production music libraries and licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media.-Introduction:...

 libraries (the KPM/Associated Production Music library, for example), although original songs were recorded for some videos (typically done by Studio Consultants, Inc., but sometimes by Tarrytunes Productions and Universal Recording Corp., among others), occasionally with sing-along lyrics appearing on-screen. The video adaptions often carried original material that was not present in the original books. Some of their video releases were mastered with Dolby Stereo

Dolby Stereo

Dolby Stereo, is the trade mark that Dolby Laboratories used for the various analogue stereo cinema sound formats that they produced.Two basic systems used this name. The first was the 'Dolby SVA' system used with optical soundtracks on 35mm film...

.

Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

 bought out Golden Book Family Entertainment in 2001.

Since 2008, a group of amateur video comedians on YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

 have been showing a series entitled Golden Book Video Killers, featuring puppet versions of the cartoon stars Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, often running the gamut between being the best friend and sometimes arch-rival of Bugs Bunny...

 of Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

 Fame and Grumpy Dwarf from Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarves

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated film based on Snow White, a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced in America, the first produced in full...

 (And on occasion, Yoshi

Yoshi

, is a fictional dragon-like character who appears in video games published by Nintendo. His debut was in Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi's sidekick , and he later established his own series with several platform and puzzle games, including Super...

 from the Mario

Mario (series)

The video game series, alternatively called the series or simply the series, is a series of highly popular and critically acclaimed video games by Nintendo, featuring Nintendo's mascot Mario and, in many games, his brother Luigi. Gameplay in the series often centers around jumping on and...

 series), welcoming viewers to their secret fun house for a show packed with making fun of the classic Golden Book Videos (in a style similar to Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....

).

List of videos in series

Some of the videos titles, and the stories contained in them, are listed below:

• Favorite Stories : 3 Stories - Approx 30 minutes. (1985)

1. "Scuffy the Tugboat
   Scuffy the Tugboat
   Scuffy the Tugboat is a children's book written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely. The book was first published in 1946 as part of the Little Golden Books series....
   
   " (by Gertrude Crampton
   Gertrude Crampton
   Gertrude Crampton was an author of children's books, including Tootle and Scuffy the Tugboat ....
   
    and illustrated by Tibor Gergely
   Tibor Gergely
   Tibor Gergely was an artist best known for his work in several popular children's books. Born in Budapest in 1900, he studied art briefly in Vienna before emigrating to the United States in 1939, where he settled in New York City. Largely a self-taught artist, he also contributed several covers...
   
   )
2. "What Was That!"
3. "Theodore Mouse Goes to Sea"

-Re-released in 1988-1989 as "Scuffy the Tugboat and Friends"

• Favorite Stories: Five Sesame Street
  Sesame Street
  Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
  
   Stories (1985, re-issued in 1989)

1. "The Origins of Super-Grover
   Grover
   Grover is a Muppet character on the popular television show Sesame Street. Self-described as lovable, cute and furry, he is a monster who almost never uses contractions when speaking or singing....
   
   "
2. "Super-Grover and the Speeding Sled"
3. "Super-Grover and the Three Bears"
4. "Super-Grover and the Hole Story" (AKA "Gone Fishing")
5. "Big Bird
   Big Bird
   Big Bird is a protagonist of the children's television show Sesame Street. Big Bird, like many of the other Sesame Street characters, is a Muppet character. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Bird" by his friends....
   
    Brings Spring to Sesame Street"

• Sesame Street : Three Stories, featuring Jim Henson
  Jim Henson
  James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for...
  
  ’s Sesame Street Muppets - Approx 30 minutes. (1985, re-issued in 1990)

1. "Everyone Makes Mistakes"
2. "The City Worm and the Country Worm"
3. "Wanted: The Great Cookie Thief"

• 3 Richard Scarry
  Richard Scarry
  Richard McClure Scarry was a popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide....
  
   Animal Nursery Tales - (a.k.a. Richard Scarry's Animal Nursery Tales, 1985)

1. "The Gingerbread Man"
2. "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
3. "The Three Little Pigs"

- Re-released in 1989/1990 as Richard Scarry's The Gingerbread Man and Other Nursery Stories

• 3 Mercer Mayer
  Mercer Mayer
  Mercer Mayer is an American children's book writer and illustrator. He has published over 300 books using a wide range of illustrative styles...
  
   Stories - Approx. 30 minutes. (1985)

1. "Herbert the Timid Dragon"
2. "Just for You" (featuring Little Critter
   Little Critter
   Little Critter is an anthropomorphic animal character created by Mercer Mayer. Although his creator has not specified which type of animal the Little Critter is, he resembles a hamster or guinea pig. Little Critter first appeared in the 1975 book Just for You. This book is sometimes mis-titled...
   
   )
3. "How the Trollusk Got His Hat"

- Re-released in 1991 as Herbert the Timid Dragon and Other Tales

• Amye Rosenberg’s : 3 Stories (1985)

1. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit
   The Tale of Peter Rabbit
   The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea...
   
   "
2. "Polly's Pet"
3. "The Little Red Hen
   The Little Red Hen
   The Little Red Hen is an old folk tale, most likely of Russian origin. The best known version in the United States is that popularized by Little Golden Books, a series of children's books published for the mass market since the 1940s. The story is applied in teaching children the virtues of the...
   
   "

• 3 Best-Loved Stories

1. "The Poky Little Puppy
   The Poky Little Puppy
   The Poky Little Puppy is a children's book written by Texas author Janette Sebring Lowrey and illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. It was first published in 1942 as one of the first 12 books in the Simon and Schuster series Little Golden Books...
   
    and the Patchwork Blanket"
2. "The Sailor Dog"
3. "Little Toad To The Rescue"

• 3 Richard Scarry
  Richard Scarry
  Richard McClure Scarry was a popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide....
  
   Tales

1. "Old McDonald's Farm"
2. "The Wolf and the Kids"
3. "The Musicians of Bremen"

- Re-released in 1989 as Richard Scarry's Old MacDonald's Farm and Other Animal Tales

• Hugga Bunch: Meet the Hugga Bunch

1. "Hugs from the Heart"
2. "Huggins and Kisses"
3. "Hugs for Grandma"

• Masters of the Universe
  Masters of the Universe
  Masters of the Universe is a media franchise created by Mattel....
  
   1

1. "The Caverns of Fear"
2. "In the Land of the Shadows"
3. "The Sword of Knowledge"
4. "The Eye of Eternia
   Eternia
   Eternia is the name of the fictional planet that serves as a setting for the Masters of the Universe toy collection and animated series.-Origins:...
   
   "

• Masters of the Universe 2

1. "The Rock Warriors"
2. "Demons of the Deep"
3. "The Maze of Doom"

• Jungle Animal Tales: 3 Stories

1. "The Saggy Baggy Elephant" (written by Kathryn Jackson and Byron Jackson, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
   Gustaf Tenggren
   Gustaf Adolf Tenggren was a Swedish-American illustrator. He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures with caricatured faces...
   
   )
2. "The Tawny Scrawny Lion" (by Kathryn Jackson and Gustaf Tenggren)
3. "Rupert the Rhinoceros" (by Carl Memling and Tibor Gergely
   Tibor Gergely
   Tibor Gergely was an artist best known for his work in several popular children's books. Born in Budapest in 1900, he studied art briefly in Vienna before emigrating to the United States in 1939, where he settled in New York City. Largely a self-taught artist, he also contributed several covers...
   
   )

-Re-released as Tawny Scrawny Lion's Jungle Tales in the Golden Book Video Classic series.

• 3 Tales from the Care Bears
  Care Bears
  The Care Bears are characters created by American Greetings in 1981 for use on greeting cards. The original artwork for the cards was painted by artist Elena Kucharik. In 1983, Kenner turned the Care Bears into plush teddy bears...
  
  - 1986, Approx 30 minutes.

1. "The Trouble With Timothy"
2. "The Best Prize of All" (featuring the Care Bear Cousins)
3. "Being Brave is Best"

• Pound Puppies
  Pound Puppies
  Pound Puppies is a toyline sold by Tonka in the 1980s. It later inspired an animated TV special, an animated TV series, and a feature film. Shipments of the toys over five years generated sales of $300 million in 35 countries....
  
  : 3 Stories - 1986, Approx 30 minutes.

1. "The Gate Crashers"
2. "Snowball the Wonder Dog"
3. "The Puppy Who Couldn't Remember"

• Favorite Fairy Tales : 3 Stories - Approx Running Time : 30 min

1. "Cinderella
   Cinderella
   "Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune...
   
   "
2. "The Elves and the Shoemaker
   The Elves and the Shoemaker
   The Elves and the Cobbler or The Shoemaker and the Elves is an often copied and re-made story about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from elves....
   
   "
3. "The Golden Goose"

• Favorite Fairy Tales: 3 Stories - Approx Running Time: 30 min (1985)

1. Jack and the Beanstalk
2. Little Red Riding Hood
3. The Three Billy Goats Gruff

• Baby Songs
  Baby Songs
  Baby Songs is one of the first, and longest-running, American, independent children's home video series. Since 1985, more than 4 million copies of Baby Songs have been sold. The series is still sold at retail and online locations.-History:...
  
   series

1. Sing Together!
2. Hap Palmer
   Hap Palmer
   Hap Palmer is an American children's musician and Guitarist whose songs specialize in developing motor skills, language acquisition, math and reading skills, and overall basic skills aimed at young children. Palmer released his first recording in 1969, and has composed over 200 songs for children...
   
   's Follow along songs

• A Step Ahead Video - 1989, Approx 60 minutes.

1. "Working with Words!" - Groucho & Olivia discover making words & sentences can be a real adventure!
2. "Working with Numbers!" - Meggie and kids put on a snappy revue showing Math can be lots of fun in The Rainy Day Number Show
3. "Get Ready to Read"
4. "Get Ready For School"/"Know the Alphabet"

• History Rock : Schoolhouse Rock Video - 1987, ABC, Golden Book Video; Approx. 32 Minutes - Academy Award Winner Cloris Leachman
  Cloris Leachman
  Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award...
  
   and a group of young friends share a lively half hour of catchy songs & sketches that make learning about History fun and easy!

1. "No More Kings" - The Founding of America
2. "Fireworks" - Declaration of Independence
3. "The Shot Heard Round the World" - Start of the Revolution
4. "The Preamble
   Preamble to the United States Constitution
   The Preamble to the United States Constitution is a brief introductory statement of the Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles...
   
   " - The United States Constitution
5. "Elbow Room" - The pioneers opening the west
6. "Great American Melting Pot" - The ethnic diversity of America
7. "Mother Necessity" - Great American inventors
8. "Sufferin’ Till Suffrage
   Suffrage
   Suffrage, political franchise, or simply the franchise, distinct from mere voting rights, is the civil right to vote gained through the democratic process...
   
   " - Women's right to vote
9. "I'm Just a Bill
   I'm Just a Bill
   "I'm Just a Bill" is a Schoolhouse Rock! segment, featuring a song of the same title written by Dave Frishberg. The segment debuted as part of "America Rock", the third season of the Schoolhouse Rock series, in 1975. The song featured in the segment is sung by Jack Sheldon and his son...
   
   " - How a bill becomes law

• Golden Book Music Video: Sing, Giggle, and Grin

• Golden Book Music Video: See, Sing and Play

• Golden Book Music Video: Songs from Mother Goose

• Golden Book Music Video: A Child's First Nursery Songs

• Golden Book Music Video: Sing, Stretch and Shape Up

• Campfire Thrillers

Non-animated video

• Kim & Jerry Brodey

"Hats on / Hats Off ...To a World of Music, Mime and Imagination with Kim & Jerry"