Film

That’s Thumper the Rabbit talking to Bambi’s mother in the beautiful opening sequence of Walt Disney’s 1942 film when all the gentle animals of the forest come to see the newborn deer.

This is the melancholy first notes for Young Andersen, a new film from Denmark about the teenage years of Hans Christian Andersen, who was born this week in 1805.

You’re listening to a little of the lullaby that opens up Russian animator Jiri Norstein’s animated short film Tale of Tales.

That’s one of the harrowing episodes from the 1951 educational film “Live and Learn” on a video called Mental Hygiene, Classroom Films 1945 – 1970.

Recess! correspondent Terry Harpold talks with Brian Taves.