Dwizzle Dee – Colors, Sizes, Songs & Imagination! (Cinema Werx DVD)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C+     Extras: C-     Film: C

 

 

Another child-safe entry into the DVD market, Dwizzle Dee – Colors, Sizes, Songs & Imagination! is the first of what is intended to be a series of DVDs that help children learn basic skills, ideas and positive forms of conduct.  With puppets Gilford, Penny and Lenny, the show encourages the child (Pre-School) viewer to follow their curiosity and want to learn more.

 

The show succeeds, but despite all the room on the disc, only one episode at 25-ish minutes is included and though many major distributors do the same thing, I am not a fan of this approach.  The idea is to include just enough information that the child can explore it in a limited way and learn it eventually as if it were second hand.  For a show that is not as well-known, this backfires, but I thought it was not bad and worth getting if you have a young child and you are good with the length limit.

 

The 1.33 X 1 image was shot on analog videotape/low-definition digital video and looks good, is colorful and is not bad, though there are spots of softness and a little aliasing here and there.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is well recorded enough and does not hit the child viewer over the head with too much sound.  Extras include a Sing-A-Long section and animated video preview for El Gato; another learning program

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo