External links
- Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies at BBC Online
- Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies at CBeebies
- Mama Mirabelle at PBS Kids
- Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies at IMDb
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| Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies | |
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| Genre | Animated series |
| Created by | Douglas Wood Andy Yerkes |
| Based on |
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| Starring | Floella Benjamin Vanessa Williams Phillipa Alexander Jules de Jongh Teresa Gallagher |
| Opening theme | "Movie Time!" |
| Composer | Lester Barnes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 10 minutes |
| Production company | King Rollo Films National Geographic Kids |
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| Network | CBeebies (UK) PBS Kids (US) |
| Release | March 19, 2007 – January 18, 2008 |
Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies is an animated educational wildlife children's television series. The live action footage comes from the BBC Natural History Unit archives, as well as the National Geographic Society. The series originally aired on CBeebies in the UK and was created by Douglas Wood, who is also the author of the companion children's picture book When Mama Mirabelle Comes Home, published by National Geographic Books. A total of 52 episodes were produced; in the United States, they were packaged as 26 half-hours. [1]
In the American version, all of the animals except Karla and Bo have American voices. Vanessa Williams is the voice of Mama Mirabelle in the US, and Floella Benjamin is the voice for Mama Mirabelle in the UK.
The series is produced by UK animation studio King Rollo Films, whose other shows include The Adventures of Spot , Discovery Kids' Paz , the Nick Jr. block and Noggin's Maisy , Sprout's Poppy Cat and Mr. Benn . The show's opening theme was written by Lester Barnes (the composer for Horrid Henry , Me Too! , Paz and Urmel ).
Set in the African savannah, it focuses on an enthusiastic elephant named Mama Mirabelle, who travels around the world to film real wildlife footage and project them onto a screen of fireflies in front of almost the entire animal kingdom. The "Home Movies" are used for educational purposes not only for the main young characters but for the pre-school audience at home.
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