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You got to see great stuff! We saw a lot of old school disney nature documentaries at summer camp along with Jaques Cousteu and Mutual Of Omaha stuff, including some of the stuff you listed like old yeller, Witch Mountain, Bedknobs & Broomsticks (with Elsa Lanchester The Bride Of Frankenstein, no less!) Also got to see Blackbeard’s Ghost, Shaggy DA and some of the Herbie movies. All summer camp at the lake though… not at school….

At school they just recycled the same flicks over & over. What we saw at age 6 we saw all the way to age 16, so knew every line of those movies. Our main fun in school was once a month, there was a 5th grade history teacher named Mr. Williams, and he would bring his guitars & perform for the middle school & primary school kids. He’d do an acoustic set that did stuff like Jim Croce… Bad Leroy Brown & so on, then Jim Stafford such as Wildwood Flower, Spiders & Snakes, then Shel Silverstein songs like Boy Named Sue…

Then he’d plug in his red electric guitar & do stuff like Love Potion Number Nine, Octopus’s Garden, All You Need Is Love, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Willy Wonka’s Pure Imagination and some popular disney stuff like Spoon Full Of Sugar & I Love To Laugh. He got major label attention, so stopped teaching & drove on his way to Capitol Records to sign a contract, but died in a car crash on the way there. RIP Mr. Williams. He made a lot of kids happier than Baby Jane ever did, haha. Loved that guy.