Children's Video Network - The Hippo And The Crocodile - Part 1

[Evallena]

It is cartoon of Soyusmultfilm (USSR). Vaccination is not against jaundice (as it was translated), but it is against Hepatitis. It was traditional to call hepatitis as jaundice or Botkin Disease. Translation is not so good.

[videofroggy]

@Evallena Thank you for the explanation! It makes much more sense now.

[Meanmanmartin2007]

I've now got a copy of this. Its the same tape but the version I've got is slightly different. It starts with a BBFC Classification notification rather than the CVN logo and it also has the bit with the hippo hiding on top of the cabinet.

[ForgottenRomeo]

Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!! 

[MadMaggie2010]

omg i had the video of this as a kid..... had it for years :)

thank you sooooo much for uploading this, the memories you have brought back to me have been magical!!

woooowww this was a huge part of my chldhood, you have made my day :)

thought id mention though, at around 6:28 a bit is missed out. they discover the hippo is missing and search for him before finding him on top of that cabinet.

but its been skipped out, just wondering why.

but apart from that, thank youu!!!

[Emrald70]

OMG I had this on VHS as a kid

it was just so different that i thought it might even be unique, or something that was only around shortly

i'm amazed to find something

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Does anyone know where I might be able to get a copy of this? I really enjoyed watching it and I'd really like to track down the vhs this is on. Does anyone know if its available on DVD?

[Meanmanmartin2007]

Thanks ever so much for putting this up

Most of the Children's Video Network tapes I've had have started with a very basic title sequence as soon as you put the tape in. Not as shown here.

Out of interest, why do you think that Children's Video Network is affiliated with Krypton Force? I thought they were affiliated with Screen Originals. I also saw a similar intro on a tape released by a company called Comic Toons

[cleo2525]

oooh my sis had this on vhs when we were little and she wanted to find a copy but couldnt so shes glad i found this on here haha

[PIFMan092]

It is Eastern European, from the former USSR. The animation studio for the cartoons is Soyuzmultfilm. CVN also released a number of other Soyuz animated shorts, including dubbed episodes of Nu Pogodi (Wait and See, released in the UK as Big Bad Wolf), and around' 14 or 15 tapes of other compilations of Soyuz cartoons.

[videofroggy]

@PIFMan092 Thanks for the info!

[michaelgadsby]

0_0 ..... this brings back VERY powerful memories of my childhood. I always used to fast forward the bit where the hippo cries lol