Kids now a days have no idea how TRIPPY the memories are of public schools pre-2000, watching stuff like this in the hallways during severe storms etc. The memories feel ancient when contrasted to where we are now.
I've thought of this for 40 years. Only saw it once, in elementary school. So good to see it again, and to see how different it is from what my memory served, and it is pretty spot on.
There WAS another movie of this story, and maybe that's what you're actually remembering. The other version was from a few years later and featured David Doyle ("Charlie's Angels") as Uncle Ulysses and Dodo Denny ("Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory") as Aunt Aggie. And character actor Jesse White (Known to many as "The Maytag Repairman") was in it as well. That's actually the version I've been looking for for years, and the search continues...
@@DaveLH I just checked IMDB. The movie remake is Homer and the Wacky Donut Machine from 1977. But since I was in college then, the 1963 version is the one I saw as a kid.
I'm so happy to find this. Back in the 70's at least 2 times a school year our library teacher would show this to us on a old school movie projector. I am 54 now and thought maybe I just dreamed about seeing this movie. But now that I've found it I know I did see it and remembered how many times. I loved this movie back then and still love it. It brings a bug smile to my face 🙂.
I actually looked up this film because I remember it from grammar school. I rewatched it on youtube, thank you for who posted it. Film day only happened once a week or so in the late 1970’s & early 80’s and it got us out of the classroom! uggh. I remember going to the “film room” during 1st through 6th grade. 16mm films were all we knew then, no television in classrooms. A telephone not connected to a plug…unheard of! These films were not of high quality but were special back when we were young. Watching them again reminds me of what a simple time it was back then. I am now 50 and doing some reflect on formative years. Our teachers back then were great, most of mine have passed on. There was grammar school K-6, junior high 7-8 and culmination of adolescent life; high school. There was no middle school, you went through the stages of growing up and that was final. Rules in school were not negotiable and we turned out just fine. Our “boomer” folks turned out to be the best people in our lives! Thank you to those who spent their lives working to educate us. The future belongs to those who invest the time in improving it. All my best youtube folks.
We watched this on a Friday one day in the 3rd grade. That was in 1963 when it was released. It wasn't exactly how I remembered it, but I'm glad to see it again before it's eventually removed. Incidentally, Centerburg actually exists. It's located in central Ohio.
I wondered if they were talking about Centerburg OH. I have a cousin that lives there, and the scene in the beginning looks exactly like it still looks today!
I remember seeing this scholastic movie (it was either in 1st or 2nd grade) I saw it either in 1971 or 1972. WOW!!! I can't believe I found it! It brings back good old memories! Thank You so much for posting it here!!! It's amazing how we remember things. I'm 56 years old and I thought of this short movie and still remembered it. I was hoping someone had it and uploaded it on youtube. Thank's again!!!
We were fortunate enough to see this in school when it first came out! Beautiful job of capturing a period! I hope that the cast and crew got to enjoy the treats! Haha!
I love this show. I first saw it in school. Ever since then, Iv e loved it and always wanted to see it again. I was astonished when I first noticed it on TH-cam several years ago. Memories. It s the only thing keeping me alive and content. Yeah, I m stuck in the past. I have this show on DVD now and watch it several times a year. Also, Paddle to the Sea.
Right on with you! Me too, this and Paddle to the Sea! All that keeps me going is the past because things were wholesome, clean, and innocent then. Now, the world just keeps getting worse and worse, and complicated!
The year this classic was made was in 1963, not 1970. I saw this in first grade arounf 1972 and in second grade around 1973! I remember the film to this day! The whole problem could have been solved if Homer had unplugged the machine!
Yes sitting here in Duck Donuts and it reminded me of a film I watched in grade school.... and I found this on TH-cam!!! Best is watching this while eating my donuts with wife and kids and a cup of hot coffee! Thanks for uploading this movie!
First saw this in the 60s in grade school. I was (and still am) totally mesmerized by music that accompanies the doughnut machine in action. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! I've been looking for this for ages. I hope Weston Woods has the original camera negatives or reversal copies that wouldn't have faded as much...but probably not.
Thank you for posting this. I've been trying to find this film for a long time. I enjoyed this when I saw it in grade school, and I loved watching it again.
I like these kinds of movies,no cussing,no attitude,just pure acting.maybe a little attiude is ok.and none of that killing you can see.no suspense.just really chill and relaxed personalities from beginning to the end of the movie.after i watch the movie.i don't have nightmares or heart attacks.live life,and be happy kind of feeling.
My school would play this on a projector at the cafeteria when it would rain. This was about 1983. I have vivid memory’s about the doughnuts being fried in that doughnut machine. For some reason I though they were bagels.
Does my heart good to find/watch again this great video "The Doughnuts" by Robert McCloskey. Remember reading the books in the 1970s as a kid in school. Great machine - progress! - nice lady to help out...lol Smart kid to figure out the solution to the problem.
I have always wondered, though, how a kid who knows how to make radios from scratch doesn't think to pull the plug?? But I see the prop people made the machine without a cord, avoiding the question for the purposes of the movie.
I remember renting this 34 years ago as a kid at one of our local video stores. It had this and the other short film of Homer Price where he and his best friend meet their favorite comic book/movie super hero. And I actually had my folks rent this because I checked out the book at the library at school and really enjoyed the adventures of Homer Price and his family and friends.
I read this book years ago from my Elementary school it took me yrs to find it again because all i could remember was a picture of a boy w/ donuts and the machine Thank for sharing! :)
Wow!!! Once in a while a memory of this movie I watched in elementary school flashes in my brain. Today I decided to see if I could search for it and here I am. So funny to see this short movie about donuts. I still remember that guy who sure loves donuts. I suppose I do too. :)
Watched this in grade school - the whole class loved it. It's still fun to watch. The Homer Price books by Robert McCloskey are also enjoyable. Another Homer Price story, "Experiment 13" is very funny as well.
I watched it when I was in fifth grade. But I had my parents rent it for me at a local video store and I watched it at home. And I rented it because I was a fan of the book. It'd been nice if Robert McCloskey would have written more books and had more stories of Homer Price.
One of my favorite books as a young boy, along with "Centerburg Tales." Even as a kid, I always wondered why nobody thought to unplug the beast... but it made for a wonderful story!
Yes, I hadn’t thought of unplugging it either, but I was thinking there were way more doughnuts than that amount of dough would have made; basically I thought it should’ve run out of dough, but yes it was a great funny story- the whole class was erupting in laughter!
Awesome, I have not seen this in years! My grandmother found this on a Beta video for me back in the 1980s. We had a Beta video player back then (instead of VHS). I used to watch this all the time. 😀
In third grade our school showed this movie as a fundraiser. We could not legally charge admission to see the movie, so we asked everyone to bring a donation. I thought it was ironic that donation sounds so much like donut.
I read this in print a long time ago. I don't remember if it was just this story or if it was a chapter in a book called "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey.
Ha, funny how some memories stay with you. I remember seeing this in school as well. The lady losing her diamond bracelet and them having to go through the doughnuts to find it. For some reason I thought this movie was in black and White. Lol.
I've never forgotten the bracelet in the donut movie! Adult me wonders how a small bowl of batter made over a thousand donuts? I wish my two pounds of ground beef made a year's worth of dinners!
This too was a staple film they showed us in elementary school if 1)we were good 2) teacher was tired 3) weather was bad. I am convinced however that we watched an updated version of this story and it was re-produced in the 70's. This version shows it was made in 1963. The version I remember was newer and had different actors - but exact same premise (maybe even the same dialog).
They showed us this in kindergarten, 1984. Reel to reel, although the film was in such poor condition, they had to stop it and turn the lights back on.
12:31 weirded me out because it looks like a bird's bill moving on the phone receiver as the man was talking on the other line. It's obviously the reflection of the light but it still was strange.
I can't watch this and not feel like its a rainy elementary school day in the mid 80's and recess has just been cancelled for this piece of crap. Also, I love it ❤️
@@DJ-Legend Yes, according to Wiki, that version, which I also remember seeing, came out in 1977. I remember Homer in the 1977 version was a lot older w/ longer hair, and David Doyle, who played Bosley on CHARLIE'S ANGELS at the time, played Uncle Ulysses. I remember in that version he said "Don't pancake, er, panic!". Groan! :)
This movie is alarmist. I was there in Centerburg, back in the day, and, although those doughnuts kept a comin' and a comin', as regular as a clock can tick, we ultimately did find a way out from under them, and, fifty years on, in 2020, we are all okay now...GOSH DARN IT, WHUT IS THAT A COMIN IN THROUGH THE DOOR?!
I watched this movie when I was in Elementary School. I was 7 years old.
Kids now a days have no idea how TRIPPY the memories are of public schools pre-2000, watching stuff like this in the hallways during severe storms etc. The memories feel ancient when contrasted to where we are now.
True. I miss what schools in the 80's were like.
I watched this 8 years ago when I was in 2nd grade. Our teacher randomly played it one day and I got this weird memory of it.
I devoured McCloskey's books when I was young - especially HOMER PRICE - so great to see this film short, too. Thanks for posting!!!
I've thought of this for 40 years. Only saw it once, in elementary school. So good to see it again, and to see how different it is from what my memory served, and it is pretty spot on.
Same here. I do remember that the only character I found sympathetic was the donut machine. The movie sparked my love of machinery.
There WAS another movie of this story, and maybe that's what you're actually remembering. The other version was from a few years later and featured David Doyle ("Charlie's Angels") as Uncle Ulysses and Dodo Denny ("Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory") as Aunt Aggie. And character actor Jesse White (Known to many as "The Maytag Repairman") was in it as well. That's actually the version I've been looking for for years, and the search continues...
@@DaveLH , I was in kindergarten in 1976, but I may have seen it in 1st grade. 100% certain it was this one.
@@DaveLH Aha! You may be right. I was sure I remembered Jesse White in it.
@@DaveLH I just checked IMDB. The movie remake is Homer and the Wacky Donut Machine from 1977. But since I was in college then, the 1963 version is the one I saw as a kid.
Still watching this in 2022...such a classic. Going out to buy a donut tomorrow :D
This and Little Red Balloon. Oh my, what a flashback. Did it win an Oscar that year? Golly gee, sure should have!
The red balloon 🎈 😍
This is like a twilight zone episode with this lo-fi music and the creepy motifs. That donut machine will never stop! 😂
What would it take for that donut machine to stop ?🤣🤣
I'm so happy to find this. Back in the 70's at least 2 times a school year our library teacher would show this to us on a old school movie projector. I am 54 now and thought maybe I just dreamed about seeing this movie. But now that I've found it I know I did see it and remembered how many times. I loved this movie back then and still love it. It brings a bug smile to my face 🙂.
It's so strange that showing this movie in elementary schools appears to have been a nationwide phenomenon.
I remember watching this in grade school in the late 90s. Reel to reel and all.
I've been looking for this forever! Haven't seen it since I was a kid
Saw it in 3rd grade in 1963, when it was new.
I actually looked up this film because I remember it from grammar school. I rewatched it on youtube, thank you for who posted it. Film day only happened once a week or so in the late 1970’s & early 80’s and it got us out of the classroom! uggh. I remember going to the “film room” during 1st through 6th grade. 16mm films were all we knew then, no television in classrooms. A telephone not connected to a plug…unheard of! These films were not of high quality but were special back when we were young. Watching them again reminds me of what a simple time it was back then. I am now 50 and doing some reflect on formative years. Our teachers back then were great, most of mine have passed on. There was grammar school K-6, junior high 7-8 and culmination of adolescent life; high school. There was no middle school, you went through the stages of growing up and that was final. Rules in school were not negotiable and we turned out just fine. Our “boomer” folks turned out to be the best people in our lives! Thank you to those who spent their lives working to educate us. The future belongs to those who invest the time in improving it. All my best youtube folks.
We watched this on a Friday one day in the 3rd grade. That was in 1963 when it was released. It wasn't exactly how I remembered it, but I'm glad to see it again before it's eventually removed. Incidentally, Centerburg actually exists. It's located in central Ohio.
I wondered if they were talking about Centerburg OH. I have a cousin that lives there, and the scene in the beginning looks exactly like it still looks today!
Wow another old grade school classic film ....thanks for posting it ....
This brings back so many memories. We watched this a lot in elementary school.
Throwback!!! I remember watching this in grade school, then craving donuts immediately afterwards.
The lo-fi music, the nostalgia, the intrigue, the random strangers walking in and making doughnuts.
I remember seeing this scholastic movie (it was either in 1st or 2nd grade) I saw it either in 1971 or 1972. WOW!!! I can't believe I found it! It brings back good old memories! Thank You so much for posting it here!!! It's amazing how we remember things. I'm 56 years old and I thought of this short movie and still remembered it. I was hoping someone had it and uploaded it on youtube. Thank's again!!!
I remember this classic from Elementary School. Love it !! It needs to get attention on DVD and Blu ray. Great old school fun !!
We got to watch this during Christmas time at school and thought those kids/ ppl were so lucky to eat all those doughnuts. 😂😅😊
We were fortunate enough to see this in school when it first came out! Beautiful job of capturing a period! I hope that the cast and crew got to enjoy the treats! Haha!
I love this show. I first saw it in school. Ever since then, Iv e loved it and always wanted to see it again. I was astonished when I first noticed it on TH-cam several years ago. Memories. It s the only thing keeping me alive and content. Yeah, I m stuck in the past. I have this show on DVD now and watch it several times a year. Also, Paddle to the Sea.
Right on with you! Me too, this and Paddle to the Sea! All that keeps me going is the past because things were wholesome, clean, and innocent then. Now, the world just keeps getting worse and worse, and complicated!
It's a good thing the health inspector doesn't stop in to observe the donut-making.
Lol.
I remember watching this in kindergarten in 1980. Afterwards they brought us outside, had us sit in a circle, and gave us all a doughnut.
Had you guys all sit in a donut formation 😂
The year this classic was made was in 1963, not 1970. I saw this in first grade arounf 1972 and in second grade around 1973! I remember the film to this day! The whole problem could have been solved if Homer had unplugged the machine!
Yes sitting here in Duck Donuts and it reminded me of a film I watched in grade school.... and I found this on TH-cam!!! Best is watching this while eating my donuts with wife and kids and a cup of hot coffee! Thanks for uploading this movie!
Westerville Ohio Duck Donuts I presume!
First saw this in the 60s in grade school. I was (and still am) totally mesmerized by music that accompanies the doughnut machine in action. Thanks for sharing!
Never watched this as a kid, but got it from our library to show my son when his dad worked for Krispy Creme.
Thanks! I've been looking for this for ages. I hope Weston Woods has the original camera negatives or reversal copies that wouldn't have faded as much...but probably not.
It's all owned by Scholastic these days.
Thank you for posting this. I've been trying to find this film for a long time. I enjoyed this when I saw it in grade school, and I loved watching it again.
Brings back great memories
The school I work at still teaches both Homer Price books (this is based on a chapter from book one) and still shows this.
I remember seeing this in school! Classic....
Must have been fun making this movie! All the doughnuts you could eat!
Actually this movie was made in 1963.
I remember this movie. I saw it once when I was in 3rd grade 1988. This short would be good for Riff Trax if they haven't already.
I feel in regards to how tacky or not this was, I feel it's charm and progressiveness makes up for it's shortcomings.
I like these kinds of movies,no cussing,no attitude,just pure acting.maybe a little attiude is ok.and none of that killing you can see.no suspense.just really chill and relaxed personalities from beginning to the end of the movie.after i watch the movie.i don't have nightmares or heart attacks.live life,and be happy kind of feeling.
I watched this years ago in elementary school also red balloon.
I am so happy you uploaded this! Been looking for it for years! Yes, I watched it in elementary school as well... and loved it!
This is my jam!!! I remember this before I could even learn English... ms.williams you are my hero and wherever you are I hope you are doing well
My school would play this on a projector at the cafeteria when it would rain. This was about 1983. I have vivid memory’s about the doughnuts being fried in that doughnut machine. For some reason I though they were bagels.
Bagels may have been more popular than donuts in the 80s. As a child of the sixties, this brings back happy memories.
Does my heart good to find/watch again this great video "The Doughnuts" by Robert McCloskey. Remember reading the books in the 1970s as a kid in school. Great machine - progress! - nice lady to help out...lol Smart kid to figure out the solution to the problem.
I have always wondered, though, how a kid who knows how to make radios from scratch doesn't think to pull the plug?? But I see the prop people made the machine without a cord, avoiding the question for the purposes of the movie.
Picked up a copy of this in 16mm years ago, because I remembered it from elementary school. Still a classic.
I remember renting this 34 years ago as a kid at one of our local video stores. It had this and the other short film of Homer Price where he and his best friend meet their favorite comic book/movie super hero. And I actually had my folks rent this because I checked out the book at the library at school and really enjoyed the adventures of Homer Price and his family and friends.
I read this book years ago from my Elementary school it took me yrs to find it again because all i could remember was a picture of a boy w/ donuts and the machine
Thank for sharing! :)
I saw this in school around 1973, I was 7. Still remember it after all these years.
Wow!!! Once in a while a memory of this movie I watched in elementary school flashes in my brain. Today I decided to see if I could search for it and here I am. So funny to see this short movie about donuts. I still remember that guy who sure loves donuts. I suppose I do too. :)
Watched this in grade school - the whole class loved it. It's still fun to watch. The Homer Price books by Robert McCloskey are also enjoyable. Another Homer Price story, "Experiment 13" is very funny as well.
"The Super-Duper" is good too.
I watched it when I was in fifth grade. But I had my parents rent it for me at a local video store and I watched it at home. And I rented it because I was a fan of the book. It'd been nice if Robert McCloskey would have written more books and had more stories of Homer Price.
Vivid memories of this from elementary school, watching in the auditorium. Probably 1976 or so.
I remember watching this in grade school...❤
I remember watching this in elementary school in the Spring of 1986. I think we watched it on the last day of school.
One of my favorite books as a young boy, along with "Centerburg Tales." Even as a kid, I always wondered why nobody thought to unplug the beast... but it made for a wonderful story!
In Centerburg Tales he sings a catchy song about donut holes.
🤣 i was thinking the same "just unplug it!"
Yes, I hadn’t thought of unplugging it either, but I was thinking there were way more doughnuts than that amount of dough would have made; basically I thought it should’ve run out of dough, but yes it was a great funny story- the whole class was erupting in laughter!
Awesome, I have not seen this in years! My grandmother found this on a Beta video for me back in the 1980s. We had a Beta video player back then (instead of VHS). I used to watch this all the time. 😀
I remember this movie from about 1967. I read the book, too.
I remember seeing this at my local library when I was young. And I remember was all those doughnuts piling up.
I can't believe I found this. I saw this for the first time in 1972.
I enjoyed this as a kid and now my own kids enjoy it; thank you for posting it!
And now I am almost 53 years old.
When I was in the 6th grade, they showed us this film in class back in 1979.
Brings back childhood memories
I was there...3000 years ago
Man I loved the Homerprice books if I had known bought this as a kid I'd have watched then!!
I ♥️ Pie And Punch And You-Know-Whats! I ♥️ The Doughnuts! Thanks for sharing!💕
I remembered this as being in B&W. I guess I was wrong. Thank you for posting, I had not seen this in 40 years.
odd cause i remember it in black and white too and that had to be early 90's
Me too. I definitely remember black and white.
@@inkyguy i saw it in the early 70's in school and was definitely in color.
I thought this was black and white too
Maybe ya watched it on b&w tv?
1943: $100.00
2023: $1800.00
If we all knew then what we know now when we watched this movie in grade school!
Thanks for a great memory!
I've watched this several times in the late 70s at school, good memories.
Funny by the late 80s we were watching movies like evil dead 2 on vhs lol.
As a kid I never noticed nobody washed their hands even after touching money
I read the book years ago, it’s a joy to watch this film.
I was in Elementary School when I watched this movie.
Saw this in 2nd grade. Im 45 now and rewatching it.
Anybody else getting funny vibes from Uncle Ulysses? 🤔
Found this! I saw this in class in 1971. Just unplug the donut🍩🍩🍩 machine so it'll stop!!! Geez!!😅😊
Production date I think is 1963. I have a 16mm low fade print. Too bad...they dont show this in school anymore
It is sad. Thus film deserves to be in the National Registry.
The last time I saw this movie was some 30 years ago when I was in fifth grade.
But it was actually produced in 1963, according to the film itself.
In third grade our school showed this movie as a fundraiser. We could not legally charge admission to see the movie, so we asked everyone to bring a donation. I thought it was ironic that donation sounds so much like donut.
🤣
nyuk nyuk
I read this in print a long time ago. I don't remember if it was just this story or if it was a chapter in a book called "Homer Price" by Robert McCloskey.
I'm sure it was a chapter.
i saw this in school 50 years ago! I said "youtube has everything!" And sure enough - youtube has everything, alright!
My childhood brought me here.
Ha, funny how some memories stay with you. I remember seeing this in school as well. The lady losing her diamond bracelet and them having to go through the doughnuts to find it. For some reason I thought this movie was in black and White. Lol.
I saw it in elementary school and just remembered it tonight. Two things one Homer lol and 2 DOH would have shut this thing down.
It says 1963 in the credits
I've never forgotten the bracelet in the donut movie! Adult me wonders how a small bowl of batter made over a thousand donuts? I wish my two pounds of ground beef made a year's worth of dinners!
This too was a staple film they showed us in elementary school if 1)we were good 2) teacher was tired 3) weather was bad. I am convinced however that we watched an updated version of this story and it was re-produced in the 70's. This version shows it was made in 1963. The version I remember was newer and had different actors - but exact same premise (maybe even the same dialog).
They showed us this in kindergarten, 1984. Reel to reel, although the film was in such poor condition, they had to stop it and turn the lights back on.
You should fix the title. The copyright date 1963 is clearly shown at 1:08.
True. I guess most remember this from the 70's than the 60's.
From kindergarten in 1974, through many more school years!
This freaked me out in kindergarten. I thought it would flood the world with donuts
12:31 weirded me out because it looks like a bird's bill moving on the phone receiver as the man was talking on the other line. It's obviously the reflection of the light but it still was strange.
I like how that hobo gets himself some coffee and donuts; did he pay? LOL
It is 2020, he has probably gotten away with it, it has been FIFTY YEARS. I know it ain't right.
OG
I don't think the children pay either or some of the adults but w/ so many people who can keep up!
I thought he eyed that bracelet suspiciously. I am glad he was not to blame for its vanishing!
No idea why I randomly thought of this movie, I dont remember how I watched it
they restored that doughnut machine from the 1880s
I can't watch this and not feel like its a rainy elementary school day in the mid 80's and recess has just been cancelled for this piece of crap. Also, I love it ❤️
Copyright 1963. I also read the book in school.
Yes, this was from the early 60's, not the 70's.
Same here - read the story in elementary school & saw the ABC adaptation “Homer and The Wacky Doughnut Machine” around the same time...
@@DJ-Legend Yes, according to Wiki, that version, which I also remember seeing, came out in 1977. I remember Homer in the 1977 version was a lot older w/ longer hair, and David Doyle, who played Bosley on CHARLIE'S ANGELS at the time, played Uncle Ulysses. I remember in that version he said "Don't pancake, er, panic!". Groan! :)
I like this version of the story, though I remember watching a version with black and white drawings, like those in the book..
This movie is alarmist. I was there in Centerburg, back in the day, and, although those doughnuts kept a comin' and a comin', as regular as a clock can tick, we ultimately did find a way out from under them, and, fifty years on, in 2020, we are all okay now...GOSH DARN IT, WHUT IS THAT A COMIN IN THROUGH THE DOOR?!
This is actually from 1963.
Saw this in the mid 80s in class
look! the first book I read... I loved the donuts part
That's was the 1970s.