What's under my bed?

Duration: 8

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1989

Creator: Weston Woods

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Brighhtly-colored animation and suspenseful music complement this story intended to allay children's fears about things that go bump in the night. Grandpa's scary story has convinced Louie and MaryAnn that there is something frightening under their bed. Grandpa soothes their apprehension by telling them of his own youthful encounters with menacing objects at the home of his grandparents. He recounts seeing glittering eyes through the window, espying a wild creature under his bed and a monster on stilts. If that were not bad enough, he heard sounds of bats fluttering, ghosts wailing and skeletons creaking. To each of Grandfather's frightening visions, Louie and Mary Ann offer reasonable explanations, and so assuage their own fears. Harmony is restored (or is it?) with a nice bowl of ice cream. Genre/FormFilms for preschoolers, Fiction. , Producer, Paul Gagne, director, Michael Sporn; Based on what's under my bed? by James Stevenson; When two girls find their grandparents' house too spooky to sleep in, their grandfather tells them a story about his boyhood; Catalog

Complete Record: Brighhtly-colored animation and suspenseful music complement this story intended to allay children's fears about things that go bump in the night. Grandpa's scary story has convinced Louie and MaryAnn that there is something frightening under their bed. Grandpa soothes their apprehension by telling them of his own youthful encounters with menacing objects at the home of his grandparents. He recounts seeing glittering eyes through the window, espying a wild creature under his bed and a monster on stilts. If that were not bad enough, he heard sounds of bats fluttering, ghosts wailing and skeletons creaking. To each of Grandfather's frightening visions, Louie and Mary Ann offer reasonable explanations, and so assuage their own fears. Harmony is restored (or is it?) with a nice bowl of ice cream. Genre/FormFilms for preschoolers, Fiction. , Producer, Paul Gagne, director, Michael Sporn; Based on what's under my bed? by James Stevenson; When two girls find their grandparents' house too spooky to sleep in, their grandfather tells them a story about his boyhood; CatalogNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.