Real Trains For Kids 2
by Lewis Bogaty
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DVD details
Actor: All Kinds of TrainsDirector: Lewis Bogaty
Brand: Wislew Publications
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 42 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-01
Studio: Wislew Publications
DVD Reviews of Real Trains For Kids 2
DVD Review: Some nice videos of trains
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD does have some interesting videos of trains, but I won't buy the other ones in this series.
The good: interesting video shots of trains crossing bridges, and lots of different kinds of American railroad trains. I liked the cover shot of the CEFX No 3131 SD40 locomotive slowly pushing through some snow, and a few other shots pretty well.
The not so good: many of the sequences are too short (a few seconds) for a very young viewer to enjoy or concentrate on, in my opinion. My son asks me what is that train doing, and before I can answer, the video cuts over to another completely unrelated train.
The voice of the narrator has a good spirit to him, but he could have a slightly better script. The script introduces some important concepts, such as the history of American railroad lines, and the consolidation of them in the late Twentieth Century, including some details, but there is not enough follow-through. This DVD could have been expanded into three DVDs: one on American freight trains and equipment doing work such as switching cars or making up trains in yards, and one on passenger trains and equipment (including history), and one on American railroad lines and their history of consolidation and the kinds of trains they run. All of these topics are introduced, but never really completed, in the one DVD.
So, if this is just for little kid filler TV-sitter entertainment, and not for serious introduction to the trains and history being presented, then it's not disappointing. But my son and I would have enjoyed learning more than we did from watching this video.
I didn't expect this to be a serious documentary, but it could have been so much better with just a little less attention paid to video scene transition effects and more attention paid to telling us what we are watching, with many more examples of trains moving slower, or longer takes on each train presented. The video of the CSX on 7th street in Hudson NY is great, but the script editors could have impressed me if it told us a bit more than simply showing the novelty of a railroad on a city street.
I only needed to google "Iron Horse Bar" and CSX to find out where it was, but why make me do that?
If the DVD were less expensive, or if we didn't like train videos so much, I wouldn't have cared or been as disappointed.
Description of Real Trains For Kids 2
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?MPAA Rating: G
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 150 minutes
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