Back in those days Life was so simple, patriotic, and family oriented. Common Sense was the norm, rare today but will change. Merry Christmas, just had a Birthday and turned 77.
This Bell Telephone version is exactly how this was presented and aired on TV every year when I was growing in the '50's and '60's. It was an annual tradition. Thank you for posting this.
The PBS (WHYY in Philadelphia) version has a slightly different intro, by a different "phone company" spokesman: ua-cam.com/video/2OB0Lf5CKDM/v-deo.html
I am smiling from ear to ear! I totally forgot about this little movie with the marionettes! As a senior citizen I’m grateful to whoever posted this and I want to say thank you, this really brought back some great childhood memories and warmed my heart! Merry Christmas everyone!👍🏼🙏🎄🥰
Where in South Jersey? I'm from there too! I remember this was the only children Christmas story on .Rudolph didn't arrive until late 60's ! We never had tv so we listened n the radio and my Dad recorded it on his 1944 reel to reel! Oh such memories! I am crying with joy right now!! I never thought I'd see or hear this again!! Soooo happy!
I love you, Jesus Christ ! I miss these times. I was born in 1960. It was magical. Jesus is so good to all of us. Merry Christmas. I wish we could go to these times. May you all have a peaceful Christmas 🎄
George Klezaras I Thank you SO MUCH For These They meant so much to me as a Kid and the Days when the Phone Company cared about these things. These Makes Christmas come Back to My Heart. THANK YOU! This is what I had as a Kid and I thank God I lived in those days.
I remember this film being shown every year at Christmastime at my grade school. It had been shown so many times that film breaks were frequent. Great memories!
I remember watching this every Christmas Eve at 5:30pm in the 1950's, on WGAL- TV 8 from Lancaster, PA. Then we would drive around looking at the Christmas lights.
I AM SHOUTING OVERCOME WITH JOY!! I used to listen to this story ,"The Nativity " only, all my very young lufe! From my second Christmas I remember this recording. My Dad had a large tape,reel-to-tell tape recorder/player from 1945! He played the Natuvuty every Christmas Eve for us 8 children. We called it "Joseph, knocking on the door"! We used to bother my dad as soon as Christmas decorations were in Macey's and Gimbel's after Thanksgiving. I never knew the title nor did I know it had visual! We alll grew up only knowing the audio recording! We didn't even know it had The Night Before Christmas ! Thank you @grirge" whoever you are for pushing this! Over the years we couldn't find the tape and I haven't listened or watched it in 50 years! My childhood memory IS THIS STORY ! The man speaking I always loved his voice too! And I still love it! Nobidy today speaks with a sweet, sincere loving and kind voice as he dies! Thank you soo much! Now I can play it for my children! I thought I'd never find it again since most people don't care today. Esp about good quality puppets! What talent in their creation and the manner to make them so ALIVE looking/acting!! Who is the man narrating? Clarence Moore in the opening scene? IS he an actor from 1951? Oh thank you so much I just love this!!
I enjoy watching.... The story by Clements C Moore on the Twas the night 🌃 before Christmas 🎄.....But also enjoyed the Nativity scene too .....Seems our Teacher showed this story in Class ...... I am now 71 years old..... Time has gone by so fast.... This was a more Simpler time .... I wish we could go back to these days
Your newest Subscriber-for-Life has been looking for this show for over FIFTY YEARS. thanks a million for posting! The amazing Alexander Scourby reads Moore's poem and the Nativity tale.
I'm 62 and I have never seen this, it's Christmas 2024. The puppeteers were magical with the marionettes!! They moved as well as any stop animation done years later. Thank you for this George! God bless and Merry Christmas 🙏🏼🎄
I don't miss the enomous long distance charges! 😂 We couldn't even call the next town over without being charged! I worked for Pacific Bell in the early 1970's. My first full-time job out of high school.
I'm totally blown away by the stop-motion animation! It definitely holds its own with today's CGI effects. Imagine the amount of time that went into this. Plus, I miss Ma Bell.
This is true meaning of Christmas. Children today are missing out on so much!! Thank you Richard for sharing this with me. I watched it from beginning to end. Loved it ❤ Have a Blessed Merry Christmas 👼
I like others on here saw this in elementary school-for me first grade Christmas 1965, and they showed it every year-Jackson Miss. Lake Elementary school-JMSSD! My has time changed since then.
I know that Christmas has passed already and now we are awaiting the New Year....but I literally just saw this video when scrolling thru UA-cam videos and I just had to watch this!!! I wish we still had TV shows like this....even tho I was born in 79' I ALWAYS loved much earlier TV shows/programs cuz they had so much more meaning then today's garbage!!! So I sincerely thank the person who posted this wonderful show!!! **Best Wishes and Happy New Year to U ALL!!! May 2024 end with many cherished memories and may 2025 be happy, safe, joyful, healthy, and full of true love for everyone of us!!! **Best Wishes, many prayers and much love to u all from Pennsylvania!! 🙏🩷🇺🇸💜🙏
This is great, no doubt about it. The version I have has a different telephone company spokesperson with a half inch wide necktie :) I enjoyed this as a kid and I showed it to my own kids when they were growing up. When they were around 8, 7 & 6 they acted out T'was The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore for my wife and I. The video I shot of that performance is more valuable to me than gold!
Thank you for posting this beautiful production. It's interesting to note that yours is the Bell System version. I have a 16 millimeter color film print of the non-Bell specific version, featuring different commercial mentions. It is a shame that the two commercials were cut from your copy, but it is a pleasure to see the restored color.
I was born in '51, the year it was made,.....remember it well from the time I was just beyond toddler.....they played it every year until the mid to late 60's. When I was in elementary school as well, they would herd us into the auditorium and play it......In actuality, that couldnt be done today, especially in lieu of the fact that the second half, "The Nativity", is obviously for those of Christian faith.......if they did that today, the ACLU would be up the school boards rear end in a heart beat, as somebody somewhere would be offended. Interesting side note about the commercial.....in those days, Bell Telephone not only had a monopoly, but was for all practical purposes "thee" phone company.....
So grateful that these old time Christmas TV programs are available on UA-cam. Never saw this one, so I am going to enjoy this while working my midnight shift. Something I find very interesting is that Santa Claus is called by his traditional name (dates back to the 4th century) Saint Nicholas. Lovely! Hope everyone had a nice celebration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ! And, may your New Year 2025 be properous! 🙏 My goodness! This is so entertaining, I have watched it twice, saved it to a playlist and shared with family and friends. Thank you so much for posting this! 😁👍😊
The Philadelphia PBS station, WHYY, runs this every year during a Christmas pledge break. It was remastered with the Braille storybooks feature included.
They are _still_ showing this? I remember seeing it on WHYY, maybe, twenty-five years ago and was really enthralled seeing it again after a very long break in between viewings.
THIS SPECIAL IS WHAT MADE CHRISTMAS SO SPECIAL BACK THEN. NOW ITS,A HORRIBLE TIME WHERE KIDS WISH FOR VAPES AS GIFTS. THE DRUGS HAVE RUINED OUR COUNTRY AND CHRISTMAS.
the first time I seen this and the first time I had seen Trans-Siberian orchestra was on pbs network back then and it was on Thanksgiving night too. I do miss these great programs, so why did they stop showing them. They had a good thing going for a while.
PBS takes tax money from us, but now only supports 1 view. I believe it should also be defunded. It has plenty of $$ from donors, who support their one sided views.
This is a great classic BUT you made a mistake in deleting the sequence where the girl at the switchboard talks. I really WISH people would STOP monkeying around with old classics and just showed them as they were originally presented.
Didn’t you hear? Rudolph and Hermey got married. Hermey is a dentist but Rudolph, sadly, is a crack dealer and abuser. They reside in a modest igloo on the Island of Misfit Toys. Poor Clarice ended up with Yukon Cornelius who is constantly digging in her personal cave looking for silver and gold.
Love the sexual innuendo. Wife: "my favorite is mistletoe" wink, wink. Then later as she places stocking over mantle, "that's for St. Nick perhaps he will fill it tonight" more wink wink.
This features marionettes...sure, this is back when people were dummies enough to let ole Bell Tel maintain it's monopoly and charge anything they wanted for service. Besides that, this production isn't PC; there's a GUN over the fireplace!
..I don't know what your problem is! This is a beautiful rendition of the First Christmas and a wonderful children's Christmas story, brought into American homes several times a week by "Ma Bell!" As for your concern of the Politically Correctness of this cherished fable: the timeline is clearly over a hundred years ago and the chances are, a gun over the fireplace was quite common! The assertion that many Americans were dupes for the phone service isn't different than today's much "enlightened" cell phone users sporting $1000 phones and paying over $100's monthly! So dear Cindy S...what's your problem?
I AM SHOUTING OVERCOME WITH JOY!! I used to listen to this story ,"The Nativity " only, all my very young lufe! From my second Christmas I remember this recording. My Dad had a large tape,reel-to-tell tape recorder/player from 1945! He played the Natuvuty every Christmas Eve for us 8 children. We called it "Joseph, knocking on the door"! We used to bother my dad as soon as Christmas decorations were in Macey's and Gimbel's after Thanksgiving. I never knew the title nor did I know it had visual! We alll grew up only knowing the audio recording! We didn't even know it had The Night Before Christmas ! Thank you @grirge" whoever you are for pushing this! Over the years we couldn't find the tape and I haven't listened or watched it in 50 years! My childhood memory IS THIS STORY ! The man speaking I always loved his voice too! And I still love it! Nobidy today speaks with a sweet, sincere loving and kind voice as he dies! Thank you soo much! Now I can play it for my children! I thought I'd never find it again since most people don't care today. Esp about good quality puppets! What talent in their creation and the manner to make them so ALIVE looking/acting!! Who is the man narrating? Clarence Moore in the opening scene? IS he an actor from 1951? Oh thank you so much I just love this!!
Watched every Christmas Eve since 1960!
It seems that when I grew up, life was so much more wholesome. I am 71 years old and feel sorry for kids growing up now.
I'm 71 too. What makes you think you're so special?
@@steverhodesvideos6244Walgreens called, your meds are ready
Back in those days Life was so simple, patriotic, and family oriented. Common Sense was the norm, rare today but will change. Merry Christmas, just had a Birthday and turned 77.
Every comment is Life was better before. Open your eyes and see the joy around you. Children haven't changed, you just got old.
@@catherinecrawford2289 You r not old enough for WISDOM, You have not been exposed to a BETTER LIFE. MAGA
This Bell Telephone version is exactly how this was presented and aired on TV every year when I was growing in the '50's and '60's. It was an annual tradition. Thank you for posting this.
The PBS (WHYY in Philadelphia) version has a slightly different intro, by a different "phone company" spokesman: ua-cam.com/video/2OB0Lf5CKDM/v-deo.html
Been watching this every Christmas since I was two years old! Now I am 66 years old! Merry Christmas everyone?!!!❤
The first "real" Christmas TV show. Grew up watching this every year it aired. It's a shame it not aired on TV now.
PBS started airing it a couple times in December. I watched it at least three or four times. I believe they were also selling the dvd
This was the AT&T I hired into. Sadly, not the one I retired from.
I am smiling from ear to ear! I totally forgot about this little movie with the marionettes! As a senior citizen I’m grateful to whoever posted this and I want to say thank you, this really brought back some great childhood memories and warmed my heart!
Merry Christmas everyone!👍🏼🙏🎄🥰
Grew up watching this as a kid while living in South Jersey. I watch it every year. It gives me so much nostalgia.
Where in South Jersey? I'm from there too! I remember this was the only children Christmas story on .Rudolph didn't arrive until late 60's ! We never had tv so we listened n the radio and my Dad recorded it on his 1944 reel to reel! Oh such memories! I am crying with joy right now!! I never thought I'd see or hear this again!! Soooo happy!
The Bell System and Bell Labs gave us so much over the years.
Break up in the mid-1980s was needed
Glad these two shows are on dvd!❤
I watched this EVERY YEAR when I was a kid, at my grandparents’ house. We need more Christmas truth like this.
I love you, Jesus!!!❤
I love you, Jesus Christ ! I miss these times. I was born in 1960. It was magical. Jesus is so good to all of us. Merry Christmas. I wish we could go to these times. May you all have a peaceful Christmas 🎄
AMEN, MY DEAR! ❤
Wouldn't it be lovely even to go back for a little while ?
@patriciamiller7595 Yes, it sure would. Christmas was magical. Not all this woke stuff. God bless you each.
Age 67, few friends and family, broken kneecap, this helps make it Christmas.
Merry Christmas friend ! Here's hoping the New Year is better. ❤
I hope you get well,very soon! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY 2025 NEW YEAR🧑🎄🌲☃️🎄
@NancySanders-om4ic my health seems like a broken record ⏺️.
I grew up on Bell Telephone money , my daddy was a telephone man , started crossbar in central Illinois in the 1950’s and 60’s .
I looked forward to watching this each year as a little girl.
George Klezaras I Thank you SO MUCH For These They meant so much to me as a Kid and the Days when the Phone Company cared about these things. These Makes Christmas come Back to My Heart. THANK YOU! This is what I had as a Kid and I thank God I lived in those days.
I'm actually quite impressed with the marionettes during the Nativity scene...they're so beautifully sculpted and their movements are so lifelike.
I remember this film being shown every year at Christmastime at my grade school. It had been shown so many times that film breaks were frequent. Great memories!
I remember watching this every Christmas Eve at 5:30pm in the 1950's, on WGAL- TV 8 from Lancaster, PA. Then we would drive around looking at the Christmas lights.
I'm 71, watched this as a kid.... awesome
You are young I'm trying to figure out what year this is don't worry your memory will start sleeping too laughing out loud
I'm 69, I have no memory of this. I lived in New York state in the late sixties and Arlington Virginia in the early 60s...
This is fabulous...thank you so much for sharing it with us...and the original version at that. Wonderful. Merry Christmas. 🎄 🎅 ⛄
I AM SHOUTING OVERCOME WITH JOY!! I used to listen to this story ,"The Nativity " only, all my very young lufe! From my second Christmas I remember this recording. My Dad had a large tape,reel-to-tell tape recorder/player from 1945! He played the Natuvuty every Christmas Eve for us 8 children. We called it "Joseph, knocking on the door"! We used to bother my dad as soon as Christmas decorations were in Macey's and Gimbel's after Thanksgiving. I never knew the title nor did I know it had visual! We alll grew up only knowing the audio recording! We didn't even know it had The Night Before Christmas ! Thank you @grirge" whoever you are for pushing this! Over the years we couldn't find the tape and I haven't listened or watched it in 50 years! My childhood memory IS THIS STORY ! The man speaking I always loved his voice too! And I still love it! Nobidy today speaks with a sweet, sincere loving and kind voice as he dies! Thank you soo much! Now I can play it for my children! I thought I'd never find it again since most people don't care today. Esp about good quality puppets! What talent in their creation and the manner to make them so ALIVE looking/acting!! Who is the man narrating? Clarence Moore in the opening scene? IS he an actor from 1951? Oh thank you so much I just love this!!
TV When our nation honored God. Beautiful nativity presentation.
May we get back to this . Have a blessed Christmas.
Amen to that!
Merry Christmas!👍🏼🙏🎄✝️🇺🇸
My thought exactly!
Watched every year growing up in the 50's and 60's. Brings back fond memories.
I enjoy watching.... The story by Clements C Moore on the Twas the night 🌃 before Christmas 🎄.....But also enjoyed the Nativity scene too .....Seems our Teacher showed this story in Class ...... I am now 71 years old..... Time has gone by so fast.... This was a more Simpler time .... I wish we could go back to these days
Actor, narrator Alexander Scourby (‘The Big Heat,’ ‘Giant’) as “Clement Clarke Moore.”
Your newest Subscriber-for-Life has been looking for this show for over FIFTY YEARS. thanks a million for posting! The amazing Alexander Scourby reads Moore's poem and the Nativity tale.
It's on DVD now!!! ❤
I'm 62 and I have never seen this, it's Christmas 2024. The puppeteers were magical with the marionettes!! They moved as well as any stop animation done years later. Thank you for this George! God bless and Merry Christmas 🙏🏼🎄
Does anyone else miss the telephone company?
I don't miss the enomous long distance charges! 😂 We couldn't even call the next town over without being charged! I worked for Pacific Bell in the early 1970's. My first full-time job out of high school.
Thanks for the memories, Merry Christmas 2024 and a Happy New Year 2025!
I'm totally blown away by the stop-motion animation! It definitely holds its own with today's CGI effects. Imagine the amount of time that went into this. Plus, I miss Ma Bell.
It's marionettes!
This was all done with marionettes in real time. Just as amazing as early stop motion for its time.
Thank you. Watched this in elementary school.
Classic Bell
Thank you !!!!!! ❤😢 Blessed Memories !!!!
Love this! ❤️ The second story is the best and it’s also the TRUTH! ❤️🙏🏻❤️
76 and the best Christmas memory!
This is true meaning of Christmas. Children today are missing out on so much!! Thank you Richard for sharing this with me. I watched it from beginning to end. Loved it ❤ Have a Blessed Merry Christmas 👼
Thank God that this still exists!
I remember this on TV on thd 50s. Yoh won't fine this on any network TV. Kinda sad
65 and never saw this before- what fun!
I like others on here saw this in elementary school-for me first grade Christmas 1965, and they showed it every year-Jackson Miss. Lake Elementary school-JMSSD! My has time changed since then.
I remember this so well!
Brings back childhood memories 🤶🏻🎅🏻❤️
I know that Christmas has passed already and now we are awaiting the New Year....but I literally just saw this video when scrolling thru UA-cam videos and I just had to watch this!!! I wish we still had TV shows like this....even tho I was born in 79' I ALWAYS loved much earlier TV shows/programs cuz they had so much more meaning then today's garbage!!! So I sincerely thank the person who posted this wonderful show!!! **Best Wishes and Happy New Year to U ALL!!! May 2024 end with many cherished memories and may 2025 be happy, safe, joyful, healthy, and full of true love for everyone of us!!!
**Best Wishes, many prayers and much love to u all from Pennsylvania!! 🙏🩷🇺🇸💜🙏
Thank you for posting this. In 1963 my teacher played this for the class. I love puppets, always have. Great memories.
I first saw this when I was 8 years old, and I simply loved it. This brings back many happy memories.
This is great, no doubt about it. The version I have has a different telephone company spokesperson with a half inch wide necktie :) I enjoyed this as a kid and I showed it to my own kids when they were growing up. When they were around 8, 7 & 6 they acted out T'was The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clark Moore for my wife and I. The video I shot of that performance is more valuable to me than gold!
Thank you for posting this beautiful production. It's interesting to note that yours is the Bell System version. I have a 16 millimeter color film print of the non-Bell specific version, featuring different commercial mentions. It is a shame that the two commercials were cut from your copy, but it is a pleasure to see the restored color.
I was born in '51, the year it was made,.....remember it well from the time I was just beyond toddler.....they played it every year until the mid to late 60's. When I was in elementary school as well, they would herd us into the auditorium and play it......In actuality, that couldnt be done today, especially in lieu of the fact that the second half, "The Nativity", is obviously for those of Christian faith.......if they did that today, the ACLU would be up the school boards rear end in a heart beat, as somebody somewhere would be offended. Interesting side note about the commercial.....in those days, Bell Telephone not only had a monopoly, but was for all practical purposes "thee" phone company.....
So grateful that these old time Christmas TV programs are available on UA-cam. Never saw this one, so I am going to enjoy this while working my midnight shift. Something I find very interesting is that Santa Claus is called by his traditional name (dates back to the 4th century) Saint Nicholas. Lovely! Hope everyone had a nice celebration of the Nativity of Jesus Christ! And, may your New Year 2025 be properous! 🙏 My goodness! This is so entertaining, I have watched it twice, saved it to a playlist and shared with family and friends. Thank you so much for posting this! 😁👍😊
The Philadelphia PBS station, WHYY, runs this every year during a Christmas pledge break. It was remastered with the Braille storybooks feature included.
They are _still_ showing this? I remember seeing it on WHYY, maybe, twenty-five years ago and was really enthralled seeing it again after a very long break in between viewings.
Thank you ! Truly!!
Love the Sprit of Christmas
Thank you so much.
I happened upon this as an adult. It came on the local public tv station.
I do remember this! How funny!!!
Thank You,for sharing this Beautiful program.MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🎄🎄
I know I am saying this in April but merry Christmas and the intro really creeped me out
22:17: "That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
PHILADELPHIA!!!!
George Klezaras Again Thank You For this Means So Much.
THIS SPECIAL IS WHAT MADE CHRISTMAS SO SPECIAL BACK THEN. NOW ITS,A HORRIBLE TIME WHERE KIDS WISH FOR VAPES AS GIFTS. THE DRUGS HAVE RUINED OUR COUNTRY AND CHRISTMAS.
the first time I seen this and the first time I had seen Trans-Siberian orchestra was on pbs network back then and it was on Thanksgiving night too.
I do miss these great programs, so why did they stop showing them. They had a good thing going for a while.
PBS takes tax money from us, but now only supports 1 view. I believe it should also be defunded. It has plenty of $$ from donors, who support their one sided views.
You would never see this on woke PBS today
Be sure to look up the NORAD Radar Santa watch each Christmas on UA-cam.
Mabel Beaton Marionettes and Bell Telephone AT&T.
Leave me my corner in peace...
I wonder how many brothers & sisters Jesus had?
really good interptiontaion of this story
All I want for Christmas is for this film to get the MST3K treatment. God bless us every one.
Something as old as me😅
✝️
The supervising operator is a cutie. I wonder where she is today? .....oh
0:10 Santa is drunk sleighing
'Ma Mama Bell'
This is a great classic BUT you made a mistake in deleting the sequence where the girl at the switchboard talks. I really WISH people would STOP monkeying around with old classics and just showed them as they were originally presented.
Alexander Scourby ?
Good King Wenceslas was not written until 1853 and The Nutcracker was written in 1891. Sweet rendition but the music wasn't from 1823. Delightful!
You can land a jetliner on his lapels 😂.
On 1822 did they electric lights ?
Gas lighting.
When I was a child the reindeer were called Donner & Blitzen NOT Dunner & Blixhen - Mandela effect!
Where's Rudolph?
Didn’t you hear? Rudolph and Hermey got married. Hermey is a dentist but Rudolph, sadly, is a crack dealer and abuser. They reside in a modest igloo on the Island of Misfit Toys. Poor Clarice ended up with Yukon Cornelius who is constantly digging in her personal cave looking for silver and gold.
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Who played Scourby’s wife?
Terrifying 😮
When the phone company worked !
Bell became Verizon after changing the name a few times it was Bell then Horizon now it Verizon
THANK🫂YOU
Old TSPS board
A shame this wasn't put through the MST3K wringer. Think of the comedy that can be gleaned from this. 😅
Heavily edited.
Love the sexual innuendo.
Wife: "my favorite is mistletoe" wink, wink. Then later as she places stocking over mantle, "that's for St. Nick perhaps he will fill it tonight" more wink wink.
You are what's wrong with this world.
And to think what has happened with the abuse of the meaning of Christianity. Sad.
It’s a bit creepy
This features marionettes...sure, this is back when people were dummies enough to let ole Bell Tel maintain it's monopoly and charge anything they wanted for service. Besides that, this production isn't PC; there's a GUN over the fireplace!
..I don't know what your problem is! This is a beautiful rendition of the First Christmas and a wonderful children's Christmas story, brought into American homes several times a week by "Ma Bell!" As for your concern of the Politically Correctness of this cherished fable: the timeline is clearly over a hundred years ago and the chances are, a gun over the fireplace was quite common! The assertion that many Americans were dupes for the phone service isn't different than today's much "enlightened" cell phone users sporting $1000 phones and paying over $100's monthly! So dear Cindy S...what's your problem?
Dry up lady.
Worst thing that ever happened was the breakup of AT&T. Service continued to improve and prices were falling every year. But let's break them up...🤔
Why are a market with competitive rates worse than the old monopoly?
And of course I'm being facetious re the gun. We're all 2A supporters here so...
I AM SHOUTING OVERCOME WITH JOY!! I used to listen to this story ,"The Nativity " only, all my very young lufe! From my second Christmas I remember this recording. My Dad had a large tape,reel-to-tell tape recorder/player from 1945! He played the Natuvuty every Christmas Eve for us 8 children. We called it "Joseph, knocking on the door"! We used to bother my dad as soon as Christmas decorations were in Macey's and Gimbel's after Thanksgiving. I never knew the title nor did I know it had visual! We alll grew up only knowing the audio recording! We didn't even know it had The Night Before Christmas ! Thank you @grirge" whoever you are for pushing this! Over the years we couldn't find the tape and I haven't listened or watched it in 50 years! My childhood memory IS THIS STORY ! The man speaking I always loved his voice too! And I still love it! Nobidy today speaks with a sweet, sincere loving and kind voice as he dies! Thank you soo much! Now I can play it for my children! I thought I'd never find it again since most people don't care today. Esp about good quality puppets! What talent in their creation and the manner to make them so ALIVE looking/acting!! Who is the man narrating? Clarence Moore in the opening scene? IS he an actor from 1951? Oh thank you so much I just love this!!