Desperately seeking sound filmstrips! Nobody in America is preserving them but me. E-mail uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com if you have some you can send me for preservation. Ask me about high-quality videos of your old home-recorded cassettes or short-run custom records. E-mail uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com for a quote. These videos cannot be monetized. Any ads are being run by YouTube. If you want to help me keep preserving media, become a patron at https://patreon.com/uncommonephemera. Fitness guru Richard Simmons spent the 80s and 90s releasing a spate of self-help and motivational tapes of questionable quality. This is one of them. Using clumsy metaphors about the April showers in our lives turning us into May flowers, anecdotes from his abusive childhood, sentences like "I hear another color, it sounds blue!" and one a couple new-age library tracks looped over and over for 41 minutes, Simmons is guaranteed to make you feel better... or worse. One thing's for sure, you won't feel the same as when you started listening. "Colors of Your Life" is a 1998 release from The Richard Simmons Living Trust by GoodTimes Entertainment, and is catalog number 08-00694. Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncommnephemera Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/uncommonephemera/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/uncommonephemera PLEASE NOTE: Uncommon Ephemera is a media preservation project. Unless otherwise specified, no copyright nor ownership is asserted by Uncommon Ephemera on the material presented herein. We honor DCMA takedown requests; contact uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com with proof of content ownership. Do not contact YouTube without inquiring about our desire to work with you. Due to YouTube's flawed implementation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we cannot correctly mark our videos as "appropriate for general audiences." Since some of the media we preserve was originally intended for use by children, we assert that this media is presented for preservation purposes and is NOT intended for children or to be watched by children. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPN92BwC8wo

Desperately seeking sound filmstrips like this one to preserve! Nobody in America is preserving them but me, and most have already been thrown away. E-mail uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com if you can help. Ask me about high-quality videos of your old home-recorded cassettes or short-run custom records. E-mail uncommon.ephemera@gmail.com for a quote. These videos cannot be monetized. Any ads are being run by YouTube. If you want to help me keep preserving media, become a patron at https://patreon.com/uncommonephemera. Beverly Cleary, the prolific children's author, passed away Thursday, March 25, 2021. Because of her books, several generations of children grew up on the adventures of Ralph S. Mouse, Henry Huggins, and Ramona Quimby and her sister Beezus. Published in 1977, Ramona and Her Father was awarded the John Newberry Medal in 1978, which undoubtedly didn't hurt its chances to be adapted into this filmstrip by Miller-Brody Productions for Random House. In Part 1 of the two-part filmstrip, Ramona, the youngest daughter of the Quimby family of Portland, Oregon is making out her Christmas list. We are told that she is making out a list of things she wants for Christmas, not a list of things she will be getting others for Christmas. (Is that unusual or shameful for a seven-year-old to be doing? We are clearly meant to think so.) Mr. Quimby comes home from work and we learn he has lost his job. In the book, Ramona crosses everything off her Christmas list and replaces it all with just one thing - "a happy family" - and gets to work thinking of ways to earn money and help her dad. The filmstrip, however, neglects to mention this at all and focuses on a single subplot, the reasons for which are either obvious or unclear, depending on how much of a cynic you are: Mrs. Quimby tells Ramona and her big sister Beezus that Mr. Quimby is shaken, saddened, and depressed (the Kids These Days(tm) might call it "triggered") over the sudden loss of his family's financial security, so they should show him empathy and try not to do anything that might annoy him or make him feel additional anxiety for awhile. So, inexplicably, Beezus and Ramona immediately launch into a full-blown campaign to make their father quit smoking cold-turkey. Posters are hung, arguments are shouted, phrases like "stop air pollution" and "I'm going to save my father's life" are uttered. For the love of Pete, the man lost his job seventeen minutes ago. One thing at a time. Ramona arrives home from school one day and is shocked to find no one home. This has never happened to her before. (The filmstrip does not explain what used to happen when her father was employed.) She sits on the stoop and cries, thinking perhaps her harassment has driven her father away. Yet, he arrives just a moment l ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIb4O44uVrU