Speaking of Animals Volume #2 (1993 Video) User Reviews

Not as funny as I remember...

[yortsnave · 5/10 · 20 December 2005]

This video is a compilation of short humorous films produced by Jerry Fairbanks and released by NTA (National Telefilm Associates) in the late 1940s. I presume they were shown in movie theaters before or after the main feature; something to keep the kiddies happy. All of them feature wise-cracking talking animals whose lips are animated to correspond to what they are saying. If you like that kind of thing, then I can recommend this video. Otherwise, don't bother. I remember seeing a few films like these in my youth, and enjoying them quite a bit. Perhaps I am growing too old to appreciate this type of humor...

The films: Our Friends, They're Not So Dumb, The Gnu Look, Hocus Focus, Home Sweet Home, Meet the Champ.

I've seen a rather different version of Volume 2

[jack-260 · 7/10 · 6 April 2006]

But I'll speak first of Volume 1 which I have on a beta tape copyrighted in 1983 by Jerry Fairbanks and released by U.S.A. Home Video Presents. It includes 'Speaking of Animals and Their Families' (1943 Academy Award) and 'Who's Who in Animal Land' ('45 Oscar). The other titles on the tape are 'Monkey Business', 'Fun on the Farm', 'The Hill-Billies', 'Swingin' on a Star', 'The 3 Little Sisters', and 'Animal-ology'. The 2 award-winners are listed separately in IMDb, but as far as I have been able to determine, the other 6 are not.

Now, Volume 2...I have it on that same tape. I don't know how it got there but it obviously didn't come from the store that way. However.... The titles included are 'Video Hounds', 'A Musical Way', 'The Lonesome Stranger', 'Calling All Animals', 'Your Pet Problem', and 'From A to Zoo'. Not a match in the bunch to what another reviewer listed, and not one of the 12 titles has a separate listing in IMDb.

Yes, they're amusing, but the films could never be made today. They are NOT politically correct.