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Old Reading Rainbow episode
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:42 am
by readinghypnotist
I'm not sure if it's on youtube (just did a search with no luck), but I'd like to find an old ep of "Reading Rainbow". Someone sends LeVar on some sort of treasure hunt for his birthday and one clue sends him to a store to find a "man and his kin" waiting for him. When he gets there, a mannequin comes to life (with robotic movements) and gives him the next clue.
I do remember the story read at the start was "Miss Nelson is Missing / Back"
Re: Old Reading Rainbow episode
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 5:39 am
by Corey Fantoccini
FOUND IT!
On YouTube, there is an official PBS upload that they want you to buy:
https://youtu.be/z7ojLkUAqKE
But, if you're willing to put up with inferior PQ (and admittedly, it is pretty bad - it's a couple generations down, where you can suss out there are other LMs in the display windows but can barely see them for the video noise) there is a free rogue upload, and I've linked it to the sequence.
https://youtu.be/EMMcp9icZMs?t=1150
Re: Old Reading Rainbow episode
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:48 am
by Corey Fantoccini
The episode is also on Amazon, where I purchased it, and with a cleaner look, I'm pretty sure at least two of the LM performers were also in the "REAL PEOPLE" profile. There is a credit at the end thanking Lynn Kristie's Modelkins. Wonder if they appeared on other TV programs?
Re: Old Reading Rainbow episode
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:55 pm
by greneker03
Lynn Kristie did not run the "Isn't she lovely" model school in California.
Joyce Ricketts is the trainer there.
but the episode you spoke about was cute. It was a shame they could not have extended that out further as some of them were very talented.
Re: Old Reading Rainbow episode
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 4:11 am
by Corey Fantoccini
greneker03 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:55 pm
Lynn Kristie did not run the "Isn't she lovely" model school in California.
Joyce Ricketts is the trainer there.
but the episode you spoke about was cute. It was a shame they could not have extended that out further as some of them were very talented.
Indeed.
Something both Lynn and Joyce's students employ that it seems a lot of LM performers leave out nowadays is that little "power surge" tic before a pose change. Seem to recall Shields & Yarnell used it too.
Re: Old Reading Rainbow episode
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 6:59 am
by greneker03
Some would call it a "Pop" to activate the next pose, Thus when breakdancers refer to "Pop and Lock" it was about popping into a new pose and locking it in.
Hope all is well with you. Let me know if there is anything I can share with you. I also have the "real people" clip and hundreds of other clips