Let's Go to the Ice Cream and Yogurt Factory

How does yogurt and ice cream go from a cow's tummy to your tummy? Ben and his niece Emma find out when they visit Stonyfield Farm (whose name is prominently displayed throughout the video), and examine huge holding tanks, plastic yogurt containers shooting down conveyor belts, and forklifts moving huge palettes of ready-to-sell product around the warehouse. As a comic host, "Ben" is far more forced than the host of Vermont Story Work's outstanding Let's Go to the Farm (VL-5/95) and the combination of repetitive shots, slow pacing, and relatively dry voice-over narration makes this a less than optimum purchase. Yes, kids will learn how ice cream and yogurt are made (and how to make it at home), but this story--with a lot tighter editing and without the lame Chaplinesque homages--could have easily been told in half the time. A very optional purchase. Aud: K, E, P. (R. Pitman)